Website updated

Website updated

I used my vacation to update the looks of this website. Blog and site are now driven by the same software. Before I was using the Zend Framework for the website and WordPress for the blog. Site updates weren’t complicated before but now I can make changes even faster and do not have to bother … Read more


Posted by News, August 3rd, 2009 | 1 comment

German PHP Magazine article – “Daten auf Vorrat” (Zend_Cache)

German PHP Magazine article – “Daten auf Vorrat” (Zend_Cache)

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.


Posted by Featured articles, News, PHP, Publications, September 10th, 2008 | 0 comments

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

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

The Zend Framework – does the name keep what it promises?

The Zend Framework – does the name keep what it promises?

Abstract. The Zend Framework is quite the new star in the arena of PHP application frameworks. Is it a framework after all? Or is it more of a code component library? Does it even matter? Probably not, because what’s important is, how it supports a software developer in his every day work. This talk, I … Read more


Posted by Conference-Talks, PHP, May 22nd, 2007 | 0 comments