Publications

Research papers

2009
How do system and enterprise architectures influence knowledge management in software projects? – An exploratory study of six software projects.

How do system and enterprise architectures influence knowledge management in software projects? – An exploratory study of six software projects.

This paper covers an investigation of the influence of system- and enterprise architectures on knowledge management in software development projects. The common impact of architectures is researched in the context of six case studies of medium and large sized software- and system development as well as technical and organizational consultancy companies in the military and non-military domain. Observations are collected in a wide variety of aspects and evaluated on the basis of the Probst et al. knowledge management model.

Books

2009
PHP 5 Cookbook – 3rd German edition

German PHP 5 Cookbook

The PHP 5 Cookbook provides solutions to a lot of tricky problems which often allow an easier solution to a problem than you had imagined. This new version addresses the changes and features addresses in the new PHP 5.3 like the introduction of namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures, the PHAR extension and the updated Standard PHP Library (SPL) to name only a few.
Architektur Grafischer Bedienoberflächen (Graphical User Interface architecture)

Architektur Grafischer Bedienoberflächen 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 costs and applications that are hard to maintain. This book introduces a client-application framework that allows for a structured approach to building multi-channeling GUI applications.
2006
PHP Programming with PEAR

PHP Programming with PEAR

In this book, you will learn how to use a number of the most powerful PEAR packages available to boost your PHP development productivity. By focusing on these packages for key development activities, this book is an in-depth guide to getting the most from these powerful coding resources.

Book chapters

2009
Dauerhafter Erfolg mit Business Software: Zehn Jahre Fallstudien nach der eXperience Methodik

Dauerhafter Erfolg mit Business Software: Zehn Jahre Fallstudien nach der eXperience Methodik

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.

Articles

2008
Daten auf Vorrat

German PHP Magazine - issue 6.08

This article titled “Daten auf Vorrat” has been published in the 6.08 issue of the German PHP Magazine. It gives an introduction to the caching library Zend_Cache that comes with the Zend Framework.
Brückenschlag

German PHP Magazine - Issue 5.08

This article with the title “Brückenschlag” has been published in issue 5.08 of the German PHP Magazine. It provides an introduction to the new PHP/Objective-C bridge extension developed by Wez Furlong. The bridge enables you to write Mac OS X applications using PHP as programming language.
Zend Studio for Eclipse

PHP Solutions Magazine - May 2008 issue

This article gives an experience report about the new Zend Studio IDE. It gives an overview about the new features. The most important topics covered are: debugger integration, profiling abilities, PHP-Unit testing and code formatting and code generation.
Introductory workshop Zend Framework

T3N Magazine #11 - Cover Photo

This is 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 like basic knowledge about the request processing lifecycle, basic knowledge about the Controller/Action pattern applied in the Zend Framework an introduction the the MVC-Conponents and an introduction to renderers, helpers, etc.
2007
PHP und TextMate

PHP-Magazin 4.07 - PHP und TextMate

TextMate is a very popular editor these days and not without reason! I used the first part of the article to introduce the reader to the command-line abilities and the main editing features. The second part covers the bundle-concept. Here I introduced the PHP-bundle and explained how to use TextMate as a powerful PHP-editor.
2005
PHP goes Redmond – PHP extensions im Eigenbau (Part 4/4)

German PHP Magazine - Issue 1.06

This is the fourth and final article in the series “PHP extensions im Eigenbau”. The main part introduces the reader into developing PHP extensions using Visual Studio under Microsoft Windows. It shows how to compile PHP from the sources and gives alternatives to “configure” and “make” that make building PHP so easy with Linux.
Objektorientierte PHP-Erweiterungen – PHP extensions im Eigenbau (Part 3/4)

German PHP Magazine - Issue 6.05

This third article in the “PHP erweitert” series covers how to use resources and gives the reader an introduction into devolping object oriented PHP5 extensions.
PHP erweitert – PHP extensions im Eigenbau (Part 2/4)

German PHP Magazine - Issue 5.05

This is the second article in the “PHP erweitert” series. It covers the common techniques every extension developer should be familiar with. Thus you get information about useful macros and functions, more complex PHP data types, constants, globals as well as the streams API.
PHP erweitert – PHP extensions im Eigenbau (Part 1/4)

German PHP Magazine - Issue 4.05

PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions. The first part briefly introduces the reader to the internals of PHP and the basics of php-extension programming.
Red Letter Days

International PHP Magazine - Issue 3.05

This article introduces the secrets of PEAR::Date_Holidays, and shows how to use the package to calculate holidays, and search for them by date. The article will also set you on the path writing your own holiday calculation routines and providing multi-language support for them.
Der in den Liedern liest

German PHP Magazine - Issue 2.05

The article introduces the basic principles of id3-tags commonly used in MP3-files. At the time of press there are two alternatives available that allow reading and manipulating id3-tags using PHP. The reader gets adopted into both, PEAR::MP3_Id and ext/id3. Several examples show all the things that are possible and explain when to use which class/extension.
2004
Auf Kommando – PHP 5 auf der Kommandozeile

German PHP Magazine cover photo - issue 6.04

This article discusses which new features of the command-line interface come with PHP5 and how they can be used. Additionally some interesting classes for CLI-programming within the PHP Extension and Application Repository are introduced to thr reader.

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