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Symfony Live 2010 has started

David — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:35 +0000

Today Symfony Live 2010 has started. There have already been some interesting sessions, but the WiFi connection is awfully slow or even down most of the time.

I’ll be attending Symfony Live 2010

David — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:05:48 +0000

Today I registered for the Symfony Live 2010 conference which will take place in Paris in February 2010. I’m looking forward to meeting lots of interesting people there!

symfony at the “Linux weeks Vienna”

David — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:01:55 +0000

From April 16th to 18th the so-called Linux weeks will take place in the city hall of Vienna/Austria. There will be a symfony desk providing general information and exchange of personal experience using symfony. Bernhard Schussek and Klemens Ullmann, the heads behind webmozarts.com, will give 2 lectures about symfony in general and concrete projects. I will be available at the symfony desk tomorrow (April 16th).

If you happen to be in Vienna at the time we’re looking forward to your visit!

Have fun!

Fighting spam

David — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:11:36 +0000

OMG, those registration spam bots are such an annoyance!

For this reason I combined my upgrade to wordpress 2.6 with the installation of the Register-Plus plugin to add a captcha to the registration. Unfortunately the simple captcha does not seem to work, it always tells me that my captcha code is wrong (I also tried adding session_start() to wp_login.php as suggested by the plugin, but it didn’t help), so I switched to the reCAPTCHA service. reCAPTCHA works and should be good against bots, so let’s hope for the best!

Status update

David — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:21:03 +0000

I haven’t had the time and also not many ideas what to write during the last few weeks, but creativity is flowing back in (despite the sticky weather here in Vienna) and I think there will be some new articles soon. There might be something more to write about Joomla! and about other software I had to do with during the last months. I don’t think I’ll write about the UEFA EURO 2008 which is kind of hard to miss at the moment – but in roughly 3 weeks it will be over and life in Vienna (and the rest of Austria) will switch back to its usual sleepy July-August look and feel.

How to backup web hosts has been downloaded 46 times so far which is not very much but ok for me – if I was able to help 5 or 10 people until now, that’s far better than helping no one, isn’t it? At least the search terms incorporated with the visits suggest that some people were actually looking for something like this.
Akismet has caught 80 spam comments until now (no, I just don’t want to see nude baby sitters!) and not let a single spam comment through. There hasn’t been a useful comment until now, but perhaps this will change some day. Actually it doesn’t matter that much.

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and new theme

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:03:13 +0000

Today I installed the latest WordPress release (2.5) and it works great. WP would fit neatly into my “Why some web applications are more usable than others” series as a positive example of how to do stuff.

After the installation I decided to change the theme to something more suitable. The default theme is nice, but a little too narrow for my taste. I particularly liked the Big blue and Silver Light (hope they don’t run into troubles with Microsoft for this) themes, and decided to go the blue way. Both themes were using a default font size for the post texts that was a little small, so I increased it from 11px to 12px. I don’t understand why so many people use such small font sizes on their web pages.

Welcome to my blog

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:07:53 +0000

From time to time I will write about software and its development, but perhaps also about other things coming to my mind. This is my first blog and I don’t know yet how it will evolve.

I’m a software engineer from Austria in his late twenties, and I have roughly 8 or 9 years experience in web development. My biggest publicly available code was probably a modified version of the phpBB 1.x discussion board, followed by some hacks (or mods as they are called now) until I gave this up due to a lack of time. I have lots of experience in PHP, and some in various other languages and technologies.

Perhaps I will also write a bit more about myself later on, but for now this should be enough. I you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send an email to david (at) vworld.at.