http://blog.northclick.de This Blog is about Web-Development at NorthClick and Jimdo, Hamburg, Germany Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:11:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The weekend and therefore the second PHP Unconference in Hamburg is getting closer and closer. You can and WILL meet the Jimdo development team there, including Markus Wolff, Hinrich Sager, Boris Erdmann, Martin Denk, Christian Springub and myself (Sönke Ruempler). Boris and Sönke will give a(n) (un)talk about ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/40 Yesterday I got an e-mail that two of my PECL bug reports for the spread module have been fixed. It seems that it gets some recent love from Rob  Richards who commited some fixes and cleanups. After a short test I can see that it's basically working again (you can ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/39 Again, our team got reinforced - this time, we're proud to annouce our new server administrator Michael Dunsky. He's a really smart guy and will manage our servers and world-wide deployed infrastructure. He'll also fill this blog with useful hints, howtos and other stuff! Welcome Michael! http://blog.northclick.de/archives/37 One month ago we wrote an email to the guys at delicious that their JSON API breaks the specification when it comes to escaping. Unfortunately we haven't got any answer yet. They're escaping single quotes what is not neccessary and not allowed! This for example causes the Zend_Service_Delicious component of the ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/36 Finally, we've named our new open source message queue framework "dropr". Why? When Boris was writing the client angel script he somehow named it "dropr". As we neither got better suggestions nor had any other idea we just decided for this name. Actually the name is a little bit fun because ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/35 First, we'd like to annouce that our staff has been reinforced by Boris Erdmann! We're really proud of having another geek within our development team. Among other things he is the founder and maintainer of the german OpenID provider xlogon. Update: The project is now called dropr! Some time has elapsed since ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/34 We’re proud to announce our new software engineer Hinrich Sager. He’s a well known guy in the PHP scene in Hamburg. http://blog.northclick.de/archives/33 Because the lack of implementations of a messaging system in PHP we at Jimdo are going to implement such a solution on our own. Some time ago I wrote another post and asked if somebody has experiences with such techniques or already designed such a beast. You'll find a Draft for ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/31 Welcome to yet another job offer post :-) We at Jimdo are looking for reinforcements! You'll be able to work in Hamburg, one of the most beautiful cities in Germany and work with a young team in an enthusiastic athmosphere. Honestly, I haven't had this much fun for years before I ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/26 When you're builing international websites, there's always something new to learn. Especially if one of the languages your website is available in uses a character set different from anything you're used to. For jimdo.com, the greatest challenge as of yet is the chinese version. Jimdo allows to define tags for your ... http://blog.northclick.de/archives/25