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:

Basic knowledge about the request processing lifecycle
Basic knowledge about the Controller/Action pattern applied in the Zend Framework
Introduction the the MVC-Conponents
Introduction to […]

In March I will start to give a lecture on web programming at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim where I’ll be using PHP for practical application. This week I started to setup a Debian-based (Etch) web-server with PHP 5.2 in a virtual-machine with VMWare. Part of this setup was getting XDebug2 integrated. It’s really […]

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 […]

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 for […]

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 […]

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 on my website soon.

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.

TextMate is a […]

Today I decided to not actively maintain the projects on my tool-garage.de website any longer. This includes all the tgc*-projects like tgcSimplePoll and tgcCalendar. The main reasons for this are:

I’m not a student anymore but have a full-time job, so I do a lot less private or freelance projects, where I used to utilize […]