Creating a new website was on our todo list for a bit more than a year now. But, you know that, business first pushed that task down again and again. But now, we are happy to finally launch our shiny new web presence, thanks to the incredible help of Age of Peers. Together with our friend Sandro and his colleagues, we created a completely new communication strategy, re-worked most of our texts and got a brand new web design. Let us know what you think of it!
Read more on Spring Cleaning…We are happy to announce the availability of my second Regular Expression webinar recording.It was a fun event, which I used to explain all the attendees a little bit more about the PCRE Regular Expression engine available in PHP and some other languages. I am covering some slightly advanced topics, like subpattern options, unicode and backtracking aka. greediness and performance.
Read more on Black Magic with Regular Expressions…Today we are happy to announce that Benjamin Eberlei will join the Qafoo family as a consultant and trainer in the beginning of 2013. Benjamin is lead developer of the Doctrine project, part of the Symfony 2 community, well known speaker and trainer. Beside that, he is an expert in software architecture and design, especially in the area of business logic modelling.
Read more on Benjamin Eberlei Joins Qafoo…We, at Qafoo, do Code Reviews quite often together with our customers. This often focusses on dicussing metrics, browsing the associated code and discussing solutions for the issues found. We started using a bunch of shell scripts for that, like everyone else, but at some point we came up with a webinterface to do this in a more comfortable way. Now we want to share this tool with you.
Read more on Code Review Tool…Features of object oriented languages are often use from a purely technical perspective, without respect to their actual semantics. This is fine as long as it works for you, but might lead to problems in the long run. In this article I discuss the semantical differences between abstract classes and interfaces. I also outline why following the semantics of those language constructs can lead to better code.
Read more on Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces…Did you ever try to debug a system with multiple interacting web services? We just released a tool, which we developed internally to be able to debug complex HTTP based SOA stacks (REST). It offers the same listening capabilities like Wireshark, but displays the HTTP requests in a far more readable way and makes it easy to reproduce single requests. Read more…
Read more on Browser SOA / HTTP Debugger…Last week, I gave an live webinar about "Writing Testable Code" in the PHP world, on behalf of Qafoo and Zend, for which the recording is now available online! You can watch the whole 1 hour session online on the Zend website. In addition, for example if you don't like videos, you can find the slides for download in our talks section.
Read more on Webinar: "Writing Testable Code"…Qafoo is happy to announce the three day JavaScript event taking place in Cologne from 12. - 14. March 2012. Presented by "entwickler akademie" (PHP-Summit) and supported by Qafoo it will be an amazing event fully packed with expert knowledge for all your JavaScript needs.
Read more on JavaScript Days - Meet the experts…It's time for something big: Qafoo goes JavaScript and from now on provides expert consulting, training and engineering for the full stack of your web application. We warmly welcome Jakob Westhoff, a well-known expert for PHP and JavaScript, in our team.
Read more on High quality JavaScript…Yes, it's that time of the year again, where the call for papers for PHP@FrOSCon takes place. As in the past 5 instances of this amazing event, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund - in cooperation with other user groups e.g. from Cologne - will organize the PHP@FrOSCon project room with a dedicated session program. And it's time to propose your talks for this now, since the CFP will end on May 23rd.
Read more on PHP@FrOSCon 2011 CFP running…