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.
I`d like to announce the release of a new Eclipse Plugin called “Smartsprites”. Install the plugin via our public updatesite. The plugin acts as a frontend to the SmartSprites CSS Sprite Generator. After installation the plugin will contribute the context menu “External Tools > Generate Spritemap” to the .css files in your workspace projects. As the plugin name implies it can be used to generate CSS Spritemap files.
The sources are available from the github repository.
After reading an blog post about a Dependency Injection container in PHP I just tweeted for curiosity why PHP developers have not yet agreed on a common standard for the behaviour of an DI container. Stefan Koopmanschap jumped into the discussion and proposed I should start a movement in this particular area. He suggested that Fabien Potencier (Symfony Lead Developer) as well as David Zülke (Chief Agavi fanboy) and Matthew Weier O’Phinney (Zend Framework lead developer) should team up with me. David got hooked immediately and I am looking forward to meet the gang at phpDay.it in Verona for the first round of discussions. In case you want to contribute as well feel free to join us or blog about this movement 
Auf der Developer Conference die vom 20.05.2011 bis zum 21.05.2011 in Hamburg stattfindet werde ich den Vortrag “Testing untestable code” halten.
Wer den Vortrag gerne sehen möchte aber in Hamburg nicht dabei sein kann hat die Möglichkeit den Vortrag auch auf der gearconf11 am 09.06.2011 – 10.05.2011 in Düsseldorf zu sehen.