Mike van Riel

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  • Changed theming to use Crossbrand

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    I have not blogged in a while due to personal circumstances, like having started on a new job which keeps intensifying, but also because I was unsatisfied with the way my sites handle templating. Let me explain, I have a shared webhosting account and run multiple domains and subdomains. Some (actually most) of them require…

  • An introduction to Scrum

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    Whilst attempting to enrich my knowledge about Agile methodologies and Scrum in specific I found the site Learning Scrum. This site turned out to be a jewel and it contained a video of a Google Tech Talk by one of the Godfathers of Scrum, Ken Schwaber. In this talk he explains the history and purpose…

  • Validating an e-mail address according to RFC 2822

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    E-mail addresses are bitches! There, now that is said I can tell why. Should you ever have time on your hands you should read RFC 2822, it provides an interesting (though somewhat dull) background into e-mail messaging. Alas one can also see why it is so hard to validate an e-mail address, it is an…

  • Generating passwords in PHP

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    There are those things you encounter again and again and again. Generating passwords is one of those. My experience is that whenever an application needs to be created which deals with user account creation, it is best to let my application create a password for the user. Why? Simply, I am lazy. Good developers and…

  • PHPWomen Article contest has closed

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    The PHPWomen contest has closed. As I had said earlier I have also participated in the contest. I restrained from posting the articles on my blog because it feels unfair to the community at PHPWomen. In hindsight it would have been convenient if I posted a new blog item whenever I posted a new article.…

  • phpWomen contest close to an end

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    Tomorrow will be the last day to participate in the phpWomen contest at www.phpwomen.org. For those of you who do not know, phpWomen is a great initiative to bind the girls of the trade together in a sort of community or usergroup. It has received quite a bit of attention lately and in my opinion…

  • Kubuntu and a slow Eclipse

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    You know you want to do it, the move, from windows to Linux when developing locally. It works like a charm, except for Eclipse when you do not pay attention. One could wonder, why do you want to develop locally? Well, sometimes (twice a day) I travel by train. And sitting still is very hard…

  • Errorhandling in PHP, now with Fatal Errors included

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    Every once in a while you stumble upon a topic that you thought would have been completely covered. This I thought as well about PHP Errorhandling. Although resources are abundant about the topic, most of them cover Error handling without handling the Fatal Errors or with hacks for a solution. This last problem can easily…

  • Testing LDAP

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    Since I tend to work quite a bit at home, for the company or just for myself, I need to work off the Business Intranet quite some times. This causes some problems when you are developing certain functionalities like a LDAP authentication mechanism in my new SOA Platform (I will blog about it in a…

  • Dutch PHP Business Seminar == excellent

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    I like to learn, it might seem odd for some people but I just like it. There is never enough time to learn everything but attending a Seminar is surely one way to increase your learning efficiency. And so I did attend the Dutch PHP Business Seminar for the first time. It was offered by…