Am 19.01.2012 tritt sich die PHP Usergroup Frankfurt zum ersten Mal in 2012. Ich werde zu diesem Anlass den Vortag Facebook for (PHP) Developers präsentieren und von unseren Erfahrungen aus drei Jahren Entwicklung mit der Facebook API berichten.

Am 28.10.2011 und 29.10.2011 findet in Barcelona die PHP Barcelona Conference 2011 statt. Ich freue mich in diesem Jahr als Sprecher mit dem Vortag “Real World Dependency Injection” dabei sein zu dürfen.

Just as a side note, since I lately got some trouble passing the private key to the openssl_pkey_get_private() function. I was following a hint on the net but I did not succeed. The reason was a slight misunderstanding on my side: You can pass the private key to the function in two ways: Either a string containing the private key or a string containing location of the private key file on the harddisk. The latter one was the one I was struggling with. In case you want to use a file that contains the private key you need to pass the protocol identifier. If the protocol identifier is missing the function seems to think the string contains the private key, not the location of the private key. So, if you want to refer to the file /tmp/private.key the string needs to look this: file:///tmp/private.key

I am happy to announce that bitExpert will contribute the Liquibase Phing codebase to the Phing project. The transition phase will start pretty soon. Unfortunately this means that the source code will no longer be maintained on github, instead the Phing subversion repository will be the new home for the extension.

“Testing untestable code” geht um die Welt: Nach Frankfurt, Antwerpen, Nashville, Verona, Hamburg und Düsseldorf freue ich mich den Vortag bei der PHPCon PL 2011 halten zu dürfen. Die Konferenz findet vom 21.10.2011 bis zum 23.10.2011 in der Nähe von Kielce in Polen statt.