PHP

Update: Need to add Danga (Gearman), Liip.ch with Okapi, Flux CMS, Jackalope, rackspace

Have you already started to try out these new storage/database things commonly referred to as NoSQL? (For you google-bot, I'm talking about CouchDB, Cassandra, HBase, Hadoop, Hypertable, MongoDB, Tokyo Cabinet, etc). Well, it's one thing to install and use them but another to understand all the computer science background about them.
Therefor many developers around the world thought to make this summer a NoSQL summer. Local meetings are held in many cities: London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, lake constance ...
If you like to meet for a beer and learn and discuss about some of the hottest stuff in computing, then come around! Please select the dates when you can join and the papers you'd like to discuss. You can subscribe to email announcements or ical and rss feeds at the lake constance nosql summer page.

Have you ever developed any kind of distributed system? When doing so for the first time, you're very likely to fall in the trap of the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. I've done so, you'll do so too.
Now zookeeper is an application, that helps you implement many distributed protocols on top of it. The hard work of implementing fault tolerance, assuring consistency and that kind of stuff is done by zookeeper in the background. Continue reading "Zookeeper for web developers"

I'm going to fosdem 2010.

These are things I'd like to attend:
Continue reading "Going to FOSDEM 2010"

Back in 2006 I learned, that KWrite (a simple text editor) was not enough to write PHP code with. I tried eclipse, but it seemed too complex and was way too slow on my old laptop.

So inspired by the Comfortable PHP editing with VIM series of Tobias Schlitt I learned VIM.

My blogpost about Vim as an IDE for PHP is a popular page and I often get requests about details of my setup. Please don't ask me anymore, since I intend to move away from this setup!

Some weeks ago I've been at a conference (GearConf) about team collaboration. Some of the tools presented there (like Mylyn) made me jealous of the java people.

So it was time to reconsider Eclipse. However editing text with what's called an "editor" in eclipse is a pain to say the least. But life's good and somebody already created eclim. Eclim allows you to keep using gvim for text editing but integrates with Eclipse to give you code completion, manual lookup, code projects and more.
This alone may not convince you, since I already have this integrated in vim. But there are at least three major advantages of vim+eclipse:

• There's not only the integration for PHP but also Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, C/C++, CSS, HTML and XML
• Eclipse comes with a bunch of other cool plugins (like Mylin)
• The code completion from eclipse is much more powerful then anything you can do with VIM. For example it also proposes you the correct classmembers after foo:: or $bar->

My collegue Jiayong just installed the bundled version of PDT with eclipse, ran the eclim installer and was ready.

However I'm much more addicted to pain, so I took the Ubuntu packages of eclipse 3.5.1, linked the pdt runtime download and all dependencies in a separate directory, checked out the GIT repository of eclim, configured the classpath in the ant buildfile and build eclim from source. The deployment of eclim can be looked up from the ant buildfile.
There are some more tweaks to do, which I can point out later, if you should dare to follow this road. You shouldn't have a need for this until you'd be interested to become famous and beloved and package PDT or eclim for Debian.

Do you already have experiences with eclim+pdt? Are there tutorials I've not found? Are you interested to come with me to explore this setup?