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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

From 4th – 6th July the Bavarian championships in rescue swimming of the DLRG took place in Neumarkt, Germany. My team and I won in the open age-group (male) and are now qualified for the German championships in October which will take place in Paderborn, Germany.

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.

Good news for all NetNewsWire fans. Newsgator’s awesome feed-reader for Mac OS is available for free since January 9th. This means no more NetNewsWire Lite! From now on FeedDemon 2.6 and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0 are also available as free download.
See their website for more information. MacMegaSite also published a detailed [...]

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 [...]

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. (pradosoft.com)
Abstract. PRADO support a event-driven, component-based paradigm to develop PHP web-applications. Do you still read request data “by hand” or do you already use advanced data- and action-binding mechanisms? Who takes care [...]

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, [...]

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.

Last week I found Coconut Battery, a very useful application for portable Macs like Macbook Pro, Macbook or the older Powerbook models. It doesn’t only show you the current charge of your battery but more important the maximum charge and the capacity. This is pretty useful to see how the battery’s current capacity compares to [...]

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 [...]

At the annual members meeting 2007 of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure Berlin/Brandenburg (VDI) me and other fantastic graduates got honored for an outstanding final study degree.

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.

At the new students matriculation event I got honored as best student of the class of 2001 in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany.

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.