Autor: Tim Strehle

PHP-OpenDocument Library: „I wrote a small PHP library for manipulating OpenDocument files and have released it under Apache 2.0 License. Its current features are: * Create plain-text Text (.odt) documents. * Create simple Spreadsheet (.ods) document.“

Harry Fuecks – [The sysadmin view on “Why PHP”](http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/01/10/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php/ „SitePoint Blogs – The sysadmin view on „Why PHP““): „When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? […] With PHP it’s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment—the web server—I’d argue…

„Mdoc is a new auto-documentation tool to create manuals like PHP manual at php.net web site, so in a style common to the PHP community and is very efficient to share your code as APIs.“

Steven Douglas Olson – Document or Perish: „Writing is the technology that brought humans to the next level in advanced technology. Civilizations that prevailed in the past were literate. They could send messages, design things and communicate their ideas through their writings. For every Leonardo da Vinci there are innumerable inventors who carried their ideas…

Karl Vogel at ONLamp.com – Organizing Files: „The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn’t find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I’d actually find something useful. Usually I’d get no hits at all, or I’d match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing…

Sean Hull – Oracle Open Source Projects – The Interviews: „This story is really about tinkerers, folks that like to play with technologies, and offer up their creations to everyone. Some end up with serious projects on their hands, and a large following. When Oracle ported to Linux, it was a moment for the tinkerers…

John Lim – Is Ruby brainwashing us?: „Well, my personal preference in terms of language is a simple clean C-like syntax. I want something that I can teach programmers in 2 days. I don’t want an unfamiliar syntax that requires relearning a lot. I don’t want programmers to agonize for hours on the right way…

MozillaZine Knowledge Base – Send plain text attachments as real attachments: „Thunderbird normally sends plain text attachments inline, as part of the message body. If your recipient wants them to appear as real attachments add user_pref(„mail.content_disposition_type“, 1); to prefs.js or user.js .“

„Structured Blogging makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain different kinds of posts and is very similar to an edit form on a blog. The difference is that the structure will let users add specific styles to each type, and add links and pictures for reviews. These styles and tags ensure that movie and…

Erwin Tenhumberg – XML Form Documents in StarOffice 8: „From some recent feedback I got the impression that many people are interested in the XForms technology. Therefore, I decided to do some kind of little tutorial about the XForms support in StarOffice 8 here in my blog.“