Introductory article on the Zend Framework for t3n magazine

Introductory article on the Zend Framework for t3n magazine

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


Posted by Development, Featured articles, News, PHP, Publications, February 28th, 2008 | 5 comments

Pure-FTPd and its Anti-Warez switch

Among all the free ftp-daemons out there I like Pure-FTPd the most. It’s easy to configure and has all features that are important to me (TLS support, virtual-users support, etc.). Anyway, today it was driving me crazy. I’ve been setting up a new Debian-based linux-box in VMWare and when starting Pure-FTPd it kept telling me … Read more


Posted by Computers, Featured articles, February 16th, 2008 | 3 comments

Debugging PHP with free tools (PDT + XDebug2)

One very important part of an IDE is the ability to debug the code you write. For web-application development you mostly need remote-debugging facilities. It’s no problem to find a good IDE offering all that for Java web-development. There’s Eclipse and it provides all sorts of features that make a developer’s life easier. For PHP … Read more


Posted by Development, Featured articles, PHP, August 3rd, 2007 | 16 comments

Bugfix release 0.17.1 for PEAR::Date_Holidays

This afternoon I uploaded a bugfix release for PEAR::Date_Holidays. Thus the latest version is 0.17.1 now. The new release contains a bugfix for bug #10220. The Date_Holidays::factory method called the setlocale() function in a way that very possibly may have broken the localization of applications using the package. Additionally there were three new drivers/filters added … Read more


Posted by Development, PHP, June 10th, 2007 | 0 comments

URL-rewriting configuration for the Zend Framework

URL-rewriting configuration for the Zend Framework

Recently I gave a talk about the Zend Framework. Part of that talk was an introduction to the suggested filesystem layout of projects based on the Zend Framework. I also gave hints about the configuration of the URL-rewriting to allow the mapping of requested URLs to a controller/action that would process the request. Read on … Read more


Posted by Development, PHP, June 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments

IPC2k7 talks uploaded (1. Zend Framework, 2. PRADO)

I finally found some time to upload the slides of my talks I gave at the International PHP conference 2007 – Spring Edition in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The slides are available on SlideShare right now and will be available as PDF download in the talks section on this website soon.


Posted by Development, News, PHP, May 26th, 2007 | 3 comments