My research paper titled “Towards an Approach for Stakeholder-Oriented Elicitation and Identification of Concerns in EA” was published in the conference proceedings of the PoEM 2011 – The 4th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling. The conference took place in Oslo, Norway from November 2-3, 2011. Here is the abstract: The … Read more →

From February 16 to 18, 2011 the 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2011) took place in Zurich, Switzerland. I presented a paper titled “Goal-oriented requirements modeling as a means to address stakeholder-related issues in EA” (see here or here). Read more →

From August 12 to 15, 2010 the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) took place in Lima, Peru. I presented a paper titled “Critical Issues in Enterprise Architecting – A Literature Review” written by Sascha Krell, Ulrike Lechner and me. Read more →

The German PHP 5 cookbook in a new and completely revised 3rd edition with information on the new PHP 5.3. Collected knowledge of American and German PHP experts. It contains hundreds of well-approved “recipes” including explanations of the new PHP features. Read more →

Todays company performance depends on powerful business software. But what part has business software in a company’s success and how can this success be identified and safeguarded? This book describes the solutions of 14 companies, using the proven eXperience method. Read more →

Last week I attended the EMISA 2009 where I presented a research paper we wrote at the chair for information systems of the Federal Armed Forces University, Munich, Germany.The title of the paper is “How do system and enterprise architectures influence knowledge management in software projects? – An exploratory study of six software projects.”. This … Read more →

Book published by the VDM Verlag – Written by Carsten Lucke When developing applications, about 50% of the total development costs are spent for the graphical user interface (GUI). For “GUI-heavy” applications this percentage is even higher. Working without a proper plan and a well structured software architecture is dangerous and can lead to immense … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 6.08 by Carsten Lucke The adoption of caching techniques allows to increase an applications performance significantly. Especially complex and time consuming operations can benefit from using a cache.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X … Read more →

Published in PHP Solutions magazine by Matthias Brusdeylins and Carsten Lucke After an extensive beta-test Zend went public early this year with the final version of Zend Studio for Eclipse (ZSfE). The most important functions – besides the IDE being based on the Eclipse platform – are code generation abilities, refactoring, debugging and profiling and … Read more →

I wrote an introductory article on the Zend Framework for the german t3n-Magazin. It is published in issue #11 and covers all the stuff you should know, to get started with the Zend Framework. Read more →

It’s been a while since my last article but finally I had some time and managed to write for the german PHP-Magazin, again. To my surprise my article was even chosen as cover-topic. Yippieh! I wrote about PHP- and web-development on Mac OS X using TextMate.

Some of you supposedly know about Leo, the online-translation service founded by some students of the TU München. Another nice translation-service is Beolingus provided by the TU Chemnitz. I already had the dashboard-widget for Leo installed on my Mac. However, I was disappointed to find out there was no such thing for Beolingus. Disappointed enough … Read more →