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Archiving Emails in Thunderbird

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

For years, I am struggling to find a decent way of archiving / exporting my business mails stored in my IMAP account. Manually copying 10K+ mails is no fun, and addons like the ImportExportTools did also not work properly. So it was clear to to me that I needed to backup the mails on our mailserver and import them somehow into my local Thunderbird instance. The problem to solve was that we use the MailDir format to store the mails on the server side and the ImportExportTools is only able to import mails in mbox format. Thanks to Google I was able to find a one-liner for the conversion, pretty clever if you ask me (at least compared the complex bash and Python scripts I found):

Configuring Xdebug and phpstorm for CLI debugging

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

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.

Heise Developer World

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

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.

Workshop Tactical DDD & Hexagonal Architecture

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· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

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.

unKonf 2015 - Geeks wanted!

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

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.

ExtJS5@HeidelbergJS

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Peter Hildenbrand
Peter Hildenbrand

Am Donnerstag den 19.02.2015 trifft sich zum ersten Mal die HeidelbergJS Usergroup ab 19 Uhr im Technologiepark Heidelberg. Ich bin als Sprecher dabei und werde in meinem Vortrag "ExtJS 5 MVVM - WTF? FTW!" auf das neue Programmiermodell von ExtJS mit MVVM und Two-Way-Databinding eingehen und demonstrieren wie einfach damit zu arbeiten ist.

Defining Phing Tasks in PSR-0 style

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· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

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: