http://blog.lucke.info PHP, Macs and life in general Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:10:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2008/02/28/introductory-article-on-the-zend-framework-for-t3n-magazine/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2008/02/16/pure-ftpd-and-its-anti-warez-switch/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2008/01/30/configuration-issues-with-xdebug-on-debian-etch/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2008/01/14/netnewswire-for-free/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2007/08/03/debugging-php-with-free-tools-pdt-xdebug2/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2007/06/10/bugfix-release-0171-for-peardate_holidays/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2007/06/02/url-rewriting-configuration-for-the-zend-framework/ 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. http://blog.lucke.info/2007/05/26/ipc2k7-talks-uploaded-1-zend-framework-2-prado/ 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. ... http://blog.lucke.info/2007/05/12/php-and-textmate-article-for-the-german-phpmag/ 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 ... http://blog.lucke.info/2007/05/12/coconut-battery-awesome-battery-monitor/