English: Berlin’s PHP usergroup is taking part in PHP’s TestFest 2009, on the 9th and 10th May, 2009! The location will be Boxhagener Str. 119, Berlin (Friedrichshain), if you want to attend, please RSVP on our wiki! Starting it off, I’ll give an intro to PHPT-style testing at the monthly meeting of the usergroup in May! Deutsch: Die PHP Usergroup Berlin nimmt am PHP TestFest 2009 teil. Wir treffen uns dazu am 9....
March is a pretty exciting month for PHP people in Berlin, and around — so here is what we got. Berlin PHP user group Topic: Magento Commerce (webservices, integration, skinning, …), and a little bit of Zend-MVC When: 8:30 PM, 4th March, 2009 Where: Z-Bar, Bergstr. 9, Berlin-Mitte … presented by Manuel Blechschmidt, and of course for the price of nothing. :-) Berlin Flex user group The Berlin Flex user group invited Adobe Platform Evangelist Mihai Corlan to speak about Flex development with a PHP backend, using Zend_Amf and probably Zend Studio....
Over the last two weeks, I had been working on an import from a raw text file of JSON data (~20 GB) into CouchDB. Due to the fuzzyness of the data, I decided to not use _bulk_docs to import it because if a single document inside a bulk request would fail (e.g. duplicate _id), I would have to go through the request one by one to figure out what went wrong....
The overall document-oriented approach of CouchDB and the free-form way of saving data are probably the things that appeal to most of us when we first read about this new database. Most of the people that were introduced to CouchDB so far quickly made the decision to use it in production despite the early beta’ish state of the project. We all hate normalization, we all want a faster and responsive database, and some of us want multiple nodes and inter-node replication....
Disclaimer: I’ve been doing mostly PHP and Zend Framework based projects in the past two years, but the information from this article is general and should be applicable to most setups — even to non PHP-based projects (to a certain extent). Inspired by Padraic’s posting spree the other week, here’s another attempt to provide you with some hands-on usefulness. I’m all open for all feedback, and sorry for the length!...