Forced contribution

I’m not exactly neutral when it comes to anything remotely related to the GPL license. Personally, there’s a bit of a GPL scare when I see code that’s released under that license and I usually try to avoid it. But (primarily) due to RoundCube being licensed under the GPL, I think I do know what it entails to release code using this license. In addition to that I have read a lot about the license, I even wasted spent three hours one night to listen to RMS....

September 7, 2009 · 5 min

Mail_Queue: 1.2.3

Despite Mail_Queue being a PHP4-compatible package, I still like to use it on current projects because it is so easy to implement and because it gets the job done. So, over the last weeks (and especially since PHP moved from CVS to SVN :-)), I put in a little time, and especially with the help of Ken, we managed to push out the 1.2.3 release today. What’s new? changed license from PHP to the (New) BSD license This is good news for two reasons....

September 4, 2009 · 3 min

PHP in schnell

Sorry, this is all in German. Or at least Germenglish. ;-) The slides are not rocket science and show a basic introduction to “faster PHP”. Things to do, things to avoid, some autoloading and a little on “shared nothing” in the end. There are some speaker-notes included (link) to make the slides more valuable for those who couldn’t make it. Hier die Folien zu meinem Vortrag “PHP in schnell” bei der PHP Usergroup in Berlin im September 2009....

September 3, 2009 · 1 min

BEPHPUG: PHP in schnell

German content ahead! Neu, neu, neu: Die Berliner PHP Usergroup trifft sich im September bereits am Dienstag, 1. September (morgen!), 19 Uhr im NewThinking Store Berlin. Der NewThinking Store ist in der Tucholskystrasse 48 (Berlin-Mitte). Aktuelles Thema: PHP in schnell (Optimierung, Fallstricke, etc.) In English: For this month’s user group meeting, we meet on the 1st September, 2009, 7 PM at NewThinking Store in Berlin-Mitte. The topic is “Faster PHP” (Do’s and Do not’s in optimization....

August 31, 2009 · 1 min

CouchDB on Ubuntu on AWS

Here’s a little HowTo on how to setup CouchDB on an AWS EC2 instance. But outside of AWS (and EC2), this setup works on any other Ubuntu server, and I suppose Debian as well. Getting started The following steps are a rough draft, or a sketch on how to get started. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with what all of these things do. If you want to skip on the reading and just get started, this should work anyway....

August 28, 2009 · 2 min