Manuel Pichler

While working on PHP_Depend's parser I realized one major reason Why I love PHP, it's the flexibility of language. Even if you think you now know all ways to solve a problem, there is always one more way to solve it.

But to be serious, don't be worried, if you don't get it.

Now after a few beers and some grilled stuff I have the opportunity to hear the talk of Benjamin Eberlei on "Framework Quality" which contains some really nice details on that topic I have ignored or not thought about.

I am looking forward to a nice evening and drinks, talks, hacking and many informative discussions with Ulf from MySQL, Bastian and Thomas from Papaya, Tobias and Kore from eZ Systems and many others.

Sadly, I could not attend last year's PHP Unconference. As I have heard from all attendees, it was a really great event. But this year I will participate and I am looking forward to the upcoming PHP Unconference in Hamburg where I will meet many geeks the first time.

Together with Sebastian, I have proposed a talk about the state of the art of quality assurance in PHP. Due to the nature of an unconference nothing is fixed until the unconference is running, but I assume we have a good chances with our talk, because quality assurance seems to be one of the hottest topics at the moment.

It seems that this year a larger/complete delegation of usergroupies from Dortmund will attend. As tobias said earlier, Stay tuned for the Ruhrpott invasion, Hamburg!

Sylvester 2007, I spent with my wife and the UG Members kore and jakob. In my opinion it was a really nice small event with good food, drinks and some cool parlor games. The only disappointing fact this evening was the fog, because it was impossible to enjoy our incredible view over a great part of the Ruhrgebiet. Despite the fog kore took some really cool photos with his new camera from our balcony: Before the fireworks started..., The firework (1/3), The firework (2/3), The firework (3/3), Some last skyrockets

The fog doesn't really stop in 2008

eZ Components

On the basis of a single sample application both authors, Kore Nordmann and Tobias Schlitt, take the reader on a journey into the depth of many components and in addition they show many PHP best practices.

In my opinion the approach of a single example application is really great, because the readers are not forced to switch between different contexts and code snippets, that allows them to be concentrated on the main topic of the book.

What this book makes really special for me is, that I have spend most time during my summer vacation to cross-read all chapters, to propose some changes and to correct some inaccuracies. To be honest the most important part in this book are two small words in the foreword

Manuel Pichler