Posts Tagged ‘integration
Gartner report on PHP
A new Gartner report about PHP – PHP: Past, present and Future is mentioned in the last Zend newsletter. Even though I remain somewhat sceptical towards similar reports it is good to see that even Gartner is catching up. What they say actually do have an impact.
“PHP has been a cornerstone technology on the Web [...]
Generating Excel files with PHP
I’m on this project at work where we need to create an excel file and send it via email or ftp to a recipient. The normal answer to this is to create a comma separated file and name it .xls and excel will work it out. However, that only works if you open it directly [...]
New design and off for vacation
I have finally pulled myself together and updated all the Smarty templates for dotvoid.com with a new design. It is not by far finished and there are lots of empty areas to fill, and adjustments that needs to be done as well as a cleanup of faulty comment counts. But I have had these templates [...]
PHP and (not) CORBA
There is a lot of talk about PHP in the enterprise nowadays – which is very good. I have been using PHP 5 for integration at Vodafone Sweden for almost a year now. The solution wraps a – rather obscure – legacy C API in a PHP 5 module and hides all this behind a [...]
I hate ODBC
Many people don’t like the idea of putting binary files in a database. I on the other hand have always enjoyed having all data, textual and binary, in the same place. What better than having it all nicely tucked away in a comfy database. The site is handled by the version handling system and the [...]
Web Methods course
This week I’m off to London for a four day course on Web Methods and integration. A nice break from the normal routine. The storm made it impossible to take the train to the airport so I’ll have to drive there. So hopefully the London weather is better than the Swedish winter storm we’ve had [...]
ext/soap getting better
I recently encountered a problem in the ext/soap extension in PHP5 (version 5.0.2). I’ve been using the extension in development only so far and it has proved to be quite stable.
The PHP soap server I’ve written run on Tru64 and exposes a weird C API that I wrapped in a custom extension. So this soap server [...]
Springtime…
The weather is absolutely wonderful today. The sun is bright and warm and the view over the bay where I work is absolutely stunning a day like this. It is hard to bring yourself to do some serious work.
My small wooden boat that I tarred this last weekend is constantly nagging my mind and I [...]
