Jakob's personal thoughts

  • Pdf Presenter Console 2.0 released

    by Jakob Westhoff on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:34:26 +0100

    I am very happy to announce that I finally had some time to release version 2.0 of my PDF-Presenter-Console. It is filled with new features like navigational link support and cache compression, as well as many bug fixes. Go get it while it's hot! Read more…

  • Book review: Test-Driven JavaScript Development

    by Jakob Westhoff on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:10:53 +0100

    Over the holidays I finally had some time to work on my stack of books to read. One of the books on top of my list was Test-Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johanson. Read more…

  • ArgumentRewrap - A Vim plugin to automatically split argument lists

    by Jakob Westhoff on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:56:34 +0100

    I have been using Vim as my primary PHP development environment for several years by now. Inspired by two blog articles (Coming Home To Vim, Vim Toolbox, 2010 Edition) I recently read I decided to cleanup my Vim configurations and create certain new macros for recurring tasks. One of these macros is the ArgumentRewrap plugin, which instantly saves me a lot of time. Read more…

  • My book: "Plug-in Entwicklung mit jQuery"

    by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:05:46 +0100

    Over the past year I have been working on a book called "Plug-in Entwicklung mit jQuery" (engl. Plugin development with jQuery). Those of you who follow me on twitter might already know it: From today on the book is finally available. Why this book might be an interesting read for you is detailed in this article. Read more…

  • International PHP Conference - WebTechCon 2010 - A Wrap Up

    by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:17:19 +0200

    The IPC 2010 is over again. Actually it ended last Thursday, but unfortunately I had no time to write this article before. It was a great conference as always. Meeting with the PHP family again has been as exciting as always. I did not only have a lot of fun, but gathered some new ideas for future projects as well. Having occupied myself with a lot of JavaScript and jQuery stuff in the last one and a half years I decided it would be appropriate to share some of my gathered knowledge. Therefore, I gave two jQuery related talks at the WebTechCon this year, which took place in parallel to the IPC. Read more…

  • Currying functions in JavaScript - A generic approach

    by Jakob Westhoff on Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:49:34 +0200

    While preparing some slides for my jQuery workshop at this years WebTech Conference I was in need of different closure example. As I thought about complex ones currying came to my mind. Even though I actually never used this concept in JavaScript I quickly hacked a short function as a generic approach to introduce this feature to the language. Read more…

  • Another PHP Unconference is over - A wrap up

    by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:26:23 +0200

    This years PHPUnconference is over. As every year before, it has been a fantastic event. The Unconference in Hamburg is one of the meet-ups, which I am happily looking forward to each year. Read more…

  • sprintf.js - An almost feature complete Javascript sprintf implementation

    by Jakob Westhoff on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:23:32 +0200

    In regular intervals I am missing something in every Javascript environment I use. The sprintf function. There are quite a lot of reimplementations for Javascript out there, but I never found one, which really worked as I wanted it to. Therefore I finally decided to hack my own sprintf implementation. I am releasing it under the MIT license, for everybody to use, who might find it useful. Read more…

  • ineedmoretime.org - A HTML5 analog clock experiment

    by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:08:06 +0200

    During an unofficial phpugdo hackathon with a lot of nice guys last weekend, I came up with the idea to write an analog clock using some of HTML5s new features. Completely without Flash. I had done this before using CSS3-Rotation (CSSClock), but this time I wanted something with nice graphics and even nicer animations. Read more…

  • PHP@FrOSCon CFP - Your last chance

    by Jakob Westhoff on Fri, 21 May 2010 14:56:07 +0200

    It's time again for the yearly PHP@FrOSCon call for papers. Since the first incarnation of the FrOSCon, the PHP-Usergroups Dortmund and Cologne/Bonn organized a PHP room with talks and sessions about PHP there. We started the CFP this year on 21.04.2010 and already got some quite interesting session submissions. It ends on 23.05.2010. Hurry up to get your talk submitted this weekend. It is your last chance! Read more…