Stephan Hochdörfer

Current situation: I have no local webserver running and just php5-cli (plus a few extensions) installed as most of the development I do will make use of a Vagrant machine. From time to time I develop small tools or libs which I like to debug on the command line. This is an overview how I configured my Ubuntu 14.04 box to handle debugging with Xdebug and phpstorm.

Am Donnerstag den 26.02.2015 trifft sich die node.js Usergroup Mannheim bei uns. Thema des Abends sind REST APIs mit einem entsprechenden Vortrag dazu. Damit wir besser planen können bitte auf der entsprechenden meetup.com Seite anmelden. Danke!

Vom 16.03.2015 bis zum 20.03.2015 findet in Hannover auf dem CeBIT Gelände die Heise Developer World conference statt. Ich freue mich den Vortrag "Offline. Na und?" präsentieren zu dürfen um von unseren (Projekt-)Erfahrungen mit offlinefähigen HTML5/Javascript Applikationen zu berichten.

We are glad to be able to host two interesting workshops in our Mannheim office in May. Our friends Ross Tuck and Matthias Noback will come over to deliver their trainings on "Tactical DDD" and "Hexagonal Architecture". Tickets for both trainings can be bought on Eventbrite.

Am 18.04.2015 findet bereits zum zweiten Mal die „unKonf“ statt, die Un-conference für Softwareentwicklung mit dem Fokus Webentwicklung. Die unKonf stellt die Entwicklung in den Fokus und setzt den Schwerpunkt auf aktuelle Technologien und deren Einsatz in der Entwicklung. Die genauen Themen werden, wie bei einem Barcamp üblich, vor Ort zusammen festgelegt und dann in Sessions aufgeteilt.

Before anybody complains: I know that "as of 2014-10-21 PSR-0 has been marked as deprecated. PSR-4 is now recommended as an alternative." - Anyway I still think this little gem makes sense to be shared because a lot of people are probably not aware of it. I recently found out by accident that it is possible pass a task name in PSR-0 style to the "taskdef" task. In the old days you had to use the Java-like dot-style notation like this and also define the classpath to make sure the class could be loaded correctly:

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire from Acquia, Inc. and I got the chance to sit down and chat in the event hotel lobby at SymfonyLive Berlin, 2014. Listen to what we have talked about. "S-word" included, I am really sorry ;)

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about my experiment with Grails and AngularJS. When I deployed the application "in production" I realized that I needed to change the Urls for accessing the Grails backend. In development mode Grails is running in an own Tomcat instance on a different port, while in production the Grails backend and the AngularJS frontend application are both served from the same Tomcat instance. In fact, both parts get exported to one .war file. After a bit of research I came across the grunt-ng-constant task which is named to be a "plugin for dynamic generation of angular constant modules". Sounds like what I needed ;)

For more than 1,5 years I rely on reveal.js for my presentations and so far the setup works quite fine for me. However there was one thing which I wanted to change: After launching the built-in webserver via Grunt I needed to launch my browser (Chrome) manually. To sharpen my Grunt skills I went out to find a solution. In the end it turned out to be rather simple ;) - I came across the grunt-open package which allows us to "open urls and files from a grunt task". This is how I set things up:

Recently I wanted to dig a bit into Grails which is a full stack web application framework for the JVM. Grails "takes advantage of the Groovy programming language and convention over configuration to provide a productive and stream-lined development experience".