CouchDB - A use case
This article tries to give you an overview on how CouchDB can be used to map data to a data storage and how it is completely different from relational databases. I try to introduce the basic concepts...
View ArticleReleased first arbit development snapshot
"Arbit aims to provide a decent modern extensible multi project tracking tool." We just released a first development snapshot. Read more...
View ArticleCurrent state of semantic web
For university I have been asked to summarize the current state of the Semantic Web. Existing and emerging technologies. There was a quite tight limitation on the amount of content, but it resulted in...
View ArticleFun with XML schema
For university I currently have to analyse XML schema quite in depth and there are some interesting / funny things inside the specification I wasn't before. First: The default elementForm value:...
View ArticleVCS wrapper development
We started developing a wrapper for different version control systems. A rough description and some context...
View ArticleSeven things - Tagged by Derick
I normally don't follow those chain letters - but I guess I have no choice here, since Derick "tagged" me :) - whatever this exactly means. Not knowing the term in this context seems common though.
View ArticleDoes accept_charset help in HTML forms?
The accept-charset attribute allows you to specify the encoding the server should receive the HTML form contents in. Does that help maintaining a consistent encoding in your web application?
View ArticleExtracting data from HTML
A lot of people try to scrape content from HTML - the first approach always seem to be regular expressions, which are incapable of parsing HTML - which I proved earlier, already. So, how to do it...
View ArticleCharset vs. Encoding
One of the most common errors when dealing with strings is to confuse charset with encoding - and I do understand that very well. So how could that happen?
View ArticleTalk about "Semantic web" at PHPUG Cologne
I will give a talk about the "Semantic Web" at the PHP UserGroup Cologne on March 6th. Details are one click away...
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