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• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• PHPBarcamp.at - A wrap up

  by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 04 May 2010 20:25:24 +0200

  Last weekend I attended the first PHP Barcamp in austria. It was a really nice event I had been looking forward to for quite some time. This article is a wrap up of the event itself as well as place to download the slides of the talks I gave. Read more…

• Auto generate sprites using the Web-Sprite-Generator

  by Jakob Westhoff on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:14:28 +0200

  The usage of so called sprites is a well known technique among web developers to enhance the loading speed of webpages. With google now starting to measure loading speeds to integrate them into their ranking this gets even more important. Creating sprite images by hand can be a painful job. The Web-Sprite-Generator does automate this process for you. Furthermore it supports complex layout techniques of the final sprite image. One of these is a color matching algorithm, which allows to save up even more space in the final image. Read more…

• From Revelation security to Android password managers using a PHP based transformer

  by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:26:31 +0200

  After having bought a Motorola Milestone some time ago, I still missed something on it. I am using the Revelation password manager to store and manage all my passwords on my desktop and laptop. What always bothered me is the fact that I could not access these from my phone. This post describes in detail how I changed this circumstance by writing a PHP based conversion utility for Revelation password files. Read more…