On January the 12th Sebastian Bergmann will be at the PHP Usergroup Dortmund and talk about PHP Unit.
The talk starts at 18:00h.
If you´re going to join it, please notice us on our Mailinglist.
The meeting will be at eZ systems in Dortmund.

Google and Microsoft started providing personalized information portals with RSS Feeds, Wheater Data and so on, with the use of ajax and some drag&drop dhtml they provide an easy customizeable center of information with great user experience.

In the PHP Usergroup Dortmund some members also signed up for this service. I dislike this data collection acquisitiveness of google more and more. I asked why they use it. As answer there was "Because it is cool and easy", "There is no other service like them".

So i decided to rescue my friends from these data molochs and started to code a portal where you also can change the structure with drag&drop and see all interesting rss feeds personalized on one page. Now it is able to handle multiple users with skin support integrated search and translation. Sure the 3 hour quick and dirty code is not enough for a glory, but the system works and the people are happy using it. So i think – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, PEOPLE SAVED -.

Cause i have much interesting new ideas and the impulse to write it clean and nice i would like to ask if somebody out there is also interested in it? What licence should it be (some sort of opensource)? What features would be great? I would be happy if some people also response.

At the next week I´ll begin my new job at eZ Systems in Dortmund.

I think it will be a interesting new job with challenging tasks and teamwork with great people.

My excitement is raising each day. I hunger for working with my new colleagues like Kore, TobyS, Derick, Sandro, Dirk Schmedding and the others .

Currently Yahoo is planning to send emails to outer space.

So i decided to stop working and enjoy the rest of my life. Cause i bet the judgement day will come soon and we die from the hands of E.T.

Why? You know how you feel when you get such massive SPAM in your inbox? I can´t believe that another race won´t avenge such agressive attack .

Some days ago, i needed a small Content Management System for our company page. And the old questions came along. Build dirty include-o-rama somewhat page, or use a full featured blown up Content Management System available on the net?

Cause all the big systems have some disadvantages in manageability, performance, security or other things i startet to make a little experiment. What i needed was system wich is easily manageable for people who dosen´t make webpages all day. It should be able to make use of modules for some needs like nice html forms, polls, databaseoutput and so on. For easily customizing it should support some kind of templates. Not at least it should have user friendly and search engine friendly urls like domain.tld/company/aboutus and so on.

So i startet to code it plain down (ugly procedural code) with just a tiny bit of time used for it. Now i have a CMS which fits all the above needs. And the funny thing is, it is only about 90 lines of code long.

I think it shows how much is possible with such a little effort by using php. I´ve talked to some other php people and they find the approach also very cool. We had a big bunch of features discussed. Some quite geeky, some really usefull. So i decided to make it open source and work on it with them. It seemd that it will transform in some kinda Modular CMS Toolkit whatever . When we recode it to structured clean oop code with some additional futures we will publish it. So stay tuned .

Ah before i forgot: We already had a name for it PureEnergy.

UPDATE: Fixed some misspelling.

I moved inside Dortmund. Many problems came up on this. Get a big
vehicle, organize everything, renovate the new home a little and on the
moving day my driver went ill. So everything messed up again .

Today is the first day I´m connected to the web again. Here is still some chaos but the light shines through. I had some really hard-working friends that helped me out. I want to thank them again and again. .

In
the last days i had no time for anything else than my new domicile. I
just posted a little on our PHP UG mailinglist. The other time i had to
catch up 5 days of work in 2. You maybe know it – your company had to
finish something and you are the only one who is able or have time to
do it.

The last week hardened me. Keep up even if i where
exhausted. I would think in the last days i grow with the problems i
faced. Maybe you think "hey moving is easy" – then you should had be on
my move. Next time you are invited to help *g

I don´t know if i ever need this but it is quite cool to have php access to Gmail-Drive.

Don´t have a Gmail account? Ask me i have a bunch of invitations free.

Die Franzosen sagen NON die Holländer NEE und die Politiker wundern sich.

Sicher haben die wenigsten sich wirklich Gedanken über Vorteile und Nachteile der Verfassung gemacht. Das haben die Politiker versaut, die in Ihrer Grenzenlosen Arroganz meinen das Volk nicht mehr Aufklären und Informieren zu müssen (es sei denn es geht um Urheberrechte bei Musik und Video), sondern einfach über dessen Köpfe hinweg etwas durchzusetzen.

Der Verdruss der Leute liegt eher darin begründet, das nicht klar wird welche Vorteile die Verfassung bringen könnte. Die Menschen haben Angst. Wovor? Vor Niedriglöhnen, Arbeitsplatzverlust, Lobbyisten usw… Und die Politiker haben bisher alles getan damit diese Ängste auch weiter bestehen.

Ich denke auch Fälle wie diese zeigen das endlich Schluss sein muss mit dieser Art von Politik. Wenn die Politik wieder für das Volk (nein, ich meine jetzt nicht "Geschenke für alle") da ist statt gegen es zu Arbeiten, sind die Menschen auch bereit einer solchen Verfassung zuzustimmen.

I know i am probably the last on the net who make this test. But my sociocultural surrounding press me to do it also

Proud to be addicted...

Lustig was Pro7 da jetzt mit Payback veranstaltet. Während einiger Pro7 Sendungen soll eine Punktzahl eingeblendet werden. Diese Zahl soll man dann per SMS an Pro7/Payback senden um die entsprechende Anzahl von Punkten gutgeschrieben zu bekommen.

Was ich dabei Witzig finde ist zum einen, dass jede SMS 49 cent kostet. Das heisst das sich 50 Punkte (1pkt=1ct)nicht wirklich lohnen. Ich tippe aufgrund der Werbegrafiken darauf, dass eine maximale Punktzahl von 150 Punkten erreicht werden kann pro SMS. Ergo maximal 1 Euro "Gewinn". Und wer weiss wie oft derartig viele Punkte angezeigt werden.

Wenn ich mir das so überlege ist das ganz schön ausgefuchst. Pro7+Payback erhalten durch die SMS immense Marketingdaten über die Zuschauer (aufgrund der Registrierten und zuordnenbaren Kartennummer ist dies auch keinesfalls anonym). Payback erhält durch Blick auf die Sendungen und Themen tiefe Einblick in die Interessenslage der Teilnehmer und kann daraufhin genauere Profile erstellen. Pro7 kann sich sicherer sein das die Leute die Sendung und Werbung verfolgen um auch ja nicht die Punkteanzeige zu verpassen. Somit dürfte sich der Wert der Werbesekunden bei Pro7 ebenfalls erhöhen.

Und was kriegt der Teilnehmer dadurch? Eigentlich eine recht niedrige Gegenleistung im Vergleich zu dem was er über sich preisgibt und welchen Mehrwert Pro7 damit erzielt.

Mal gucken vielleicht zahlen einige ja sogar drauf, weil nicht jeder überlegt wenn z.b. nur 20 Punkte angezeigt werden.

I want to make some publicity for synergy.

Its a kind of software which is very usefull when you use more than one computer simultaneously. Its somelike a KVM switch for local use – OS independent – free – and Opensource.

You can use one keyboard and one mouse on n computers which share the peripherals over a TCP/IP-Network. Once connected (works also automatical) you can move your mousepointer out of the screen to another machine (Linux or Windows doesn´t matter) and your controls are dedicated to that system.

Hard to understand? Just try it. You will love it.

Hehe, i´ve invited someone to gmail who is customer of web.de. Web.de categorized the gmail invitation as spam.
If i would be evil I would think its because of commercial proposition .

Even if i think everybody on this planet is able to get an gmail account, i want to tell that i have a huge bunch of gmail invitations free. If you want to have an gmail account, tell me i invite you.

BTW have you tried GmailFS? I mean its crazy but it works fine . Maybe the storage is good enough for CVS if no CVS server is available. *jk*