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.

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.

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 [...]

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 costs [...]

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 the [...]

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 unit-testing [...]

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.

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.

Packt Publishings PEAR book (PHP Programming with PEAR) has finally been published.
PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of “packages”.
I co-authored this book together with my very good friend Stephan Schmidt, and Stoyan Stefanov and Aaron Wormus.

Published in PHP Magazin 1.06 by Carsten Lucke
PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 6.05 by Carsten Lucke
PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.05 by Carsten Lucke
PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in PHP Magazin 4.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt
PHP is fast! But can you make it faster? How? This article-series tries to answer this questions and shows you how to develop your own PHP extensions written in the language C.

Published in International PHP Magazine 3.05 by Carsten Lucke

Holidays or other special days are an important part of almost every calendar. Some of those days are easy to calculate but if the recurrence-rules are more complex and based on advanced algorithms the whole thing can get quite complicated very fast. The article covers the [...]

Published in PHP Magazin 2.05 by Carsten Lucke and Stephan Schmidt

Online music-stores like Musicload are currently pretty much of public interest. To show information about songs in MP3-format not even any kind of database is needed but all necessary information is stored inside the file itself. This article shows how to get access to this [...]

Published in PHP Magazin 6.04 by Carsten Lucke

The new PHP5 comes with some interesting changes concerning the command-line interface (CLI). It allows the user to process input-data from the standard input stream (stdin) line by line. In many cases this allows fast and efficient processing of data that comes from files or program outputs.