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Hello, my name is Lars Strojny. I’m the CTO at InterNations GmbH, Munich. This blog is mostly about technology, though you’ll find some random musings about pop, politics and culture. More …

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2 Drupal as a Content Repository — a few months later

I’ve recently blogged about how we use Drupal as a Content Repository. I wanted to write a lessons learned follow up post to see what worked out and what we needed to adjust. Where we are We still use Drupal as a Content Repository and just consume it’s content data via webservices to let our application do the complicated rendering. We launched the external part of our …

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0 Drupal as a Content Repository

As one of my first projects at InterNations we want to introduce rich content management functionality for internal usage. We have a custom made PHP application and want to publish a bunch of content to provide our customers with an even richer experience and greater service. Our requirements can be read along the lines of: Provide an easy to use interface for content and media …

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0 Dependency Injection Container Refactorings, Part Two

This is part of a mini-series about typical refactorings when using DI containers. Read part one. (c) Jil A. Brown Introduce Parameter When configuring objects you will stumble upon occurrences of duplicated configuration. As configuration duplication is as bad as code duplication, making refactorings and maintenance time-intense and error-prone, we try to avoid them. Occurrences I …

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0 PECL mogilefs 0.9.0 released

I just released 0.9.0 of PECL mogilefs. This is release comes with a few but small API breaks. Basically whenever there was no open connection, we returned false in the past. We no longer do that, instead we throw an exception of type MogileFsException. So the API breakage will be fairly visible. The complete list of changes: Adding new methods setReadTimeout(float readTimeout) and …

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  1. At April 12th 2012, 11:11:16 pm
    What do you think about this little experiment to allow guarded calls: github.com/lstrojny/functional… #functional-php
  2. At April 4th 2012, 08:38:48 pm
    Enough for today

Traces

Bookmarks via pinboard.in

  1. Relation | drupal.org
    Filed under drupal, reference
  2. References | drupal.org
    Filed under drupal, reference
  3. Entity reference | drupal.org
    Filed under drupal, reference
  4. gooh/InterfaceDistiller
    Filed under php
  5. A Brief History of Goatse
    Filed under meme

Contributions

Contributions at github.com

  1. At April 14th 2012, 11:00:27 pm
    lstrojny commented on issue 3 on lstrojny/pecl-mogilefs
  2. At April 12th 2012, 11:32:26 pm
    lstrojny pushed to features/guards at lstrojny/functional-php
  3. At April 12th 2012, 11:10:02 pm
    lstrojny pushed to features/guards at lstrojny/functional-php
  4. At April 12th 2012, 10:59:09 pm
    lstrojny created branch features/guards at lstrojny/functional-php
  5. At April 12th 2012, 10:58:57 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at lstrojny/functional-php
  6. At April 11th 2012, 10:21:38 pm
    lstrojny started watching gooh/InterfaceDistiller

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