Jahr: 2005

The PHP Metadata Toolkit „allows reading, writing and display of the following JPEG metadata formats: * EXIF – including makernotes * XMP / RDF, including multiple language support * Dublin Core * IPTC-NAA IIM * Photoshop IRB * Picture Info * JFIF * DCF * TIFF/EP * JFIF Extension * Embedded Thumbnails * Intrinsic JPEG…

Jeffrey Veen – Making A Better Open Source CMS: „Give first-time users a series of quick wins that become increasingly complex. When I first log in, I want to create a Web page. Next, I’d like to add some styles to it. Then, I’d like to make links to some other Web pages. I’ll build…

IPTC Metadata for XMP (IPTC4XMP): „IPTC metadata were employed by Adobe Systems Inc. to describe photos already in the early nineties. A subset of the IPTC „Information Interchange Model – IIM“ was adopted as the well known „IPTC Headers“ for Photoshop, JPEG and TIFF image files which currently describe millions of professional digital photos. In…

Greg Wilson at ONLamp.com – Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks: „Every day, all over the world, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor’s proprietary format into another’s, check configuration files, and yank data out of web server logs. This kind of programming is usually called data crunching, and while it’s…

„Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!“

So it’s PHP’s 10th birthday today, and a lot of people wrote about their story with PHP; so here’s mine. It’s not that interesting as I’m a mere user of PHP (having contributed nothing but a few bug reports): In 1998, a friend showed me the php.net homepage – we were impressed by PHP3’s functionality…

Sebastian Bergmann – Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5 [German] – Objektorientierung. Entwurfsmuster. Modellierung. Fortgeschrittene Datenbankprogrammierung: „Text und Abbildungen dieser HTML-Dateien sind der Inhalt des Buchs ‚Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5′“.

The Form Assembly: „The Form Builder is a tool for creating standard compliant web forms. It integrates the wForms extension and relies on a set of technologies like XML, XMLHttpRequest, XSLT and DOM (a.k.a Ajax) to provide a seamless single-screen experience.“

Peter Van Dijck at XML.com – Introduction to XFML: „XFML is a simple XML format for exchanging metadata in the form of faceted hierarchies, sometimes called taxonomies. Its basic building blocks are topics, also called categories. XFML won’t solve all your metadata needs. It’s focused on interchanging faceted classification and indexing data.“

Björn Schotte – AJAX: redesign your PHP applications? „First of all, XMLHttpRequest has a problem: in InternetExplorer, it doesn’t work without ActiveX. This makes it pretty useless when being used in companies like HypoVereinsbank or Siemens (both are customers we’re working for) where ActiveX has been disabled for security reasons. Second, the fixed costs for…