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

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2 Build queries for Lucene/Solr indexes in PHP

We use Solr a lot at InterNations. Beside usual full text searches, we use it every time we need to receive documents nearly free of charge. It is fast, it is stable and, after some wrestling, our data import works very well as well. For more than a year we added more and more functionality to a component for building Solr/Lucene queries programmatically. We provide two different ways to …

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15 Functional programming in PHP

PHP has traditionally been a simple, procedural language that took a lot of inspiration from C and Perl. Both syntax wise and making sure function signatures are as convoluted as possible. PHP 5.0 introduced a proper object model but you know all of that already. PHP 5.3 introduced closures and PHP 5.4 improved closures very much (hint: $this is available per default). What is functional …

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0 Polite Exceptions – Fixing the stepchild of API design

Every API has an visible, an invisibile and a hidden part. The visible part is obvious: public methods and properties but also constants and parameter values. That’s the most visible part to any client (read: user) of your API. The invisible part is everything private, you can’t really see it and – more important – you can’t use it (except if you resort to …

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11 The state of meta programming in PHP

Quoting Wikipedia Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that would otherwise be done at runtime Metaprogramming is quite an interesting sub-discipline and knowing about certain techniques and tools allows you to cut corners quite dramatically for certain …

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  1. At April 3rd 2013, 10:30:24 pm
    It’s @klimpong’s fault that github.com/InterNations/SolrUt… is now standalone.

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  1. People: Your Most Agile Ingredient
    Filed under agile
  2. Heap - Modern Analytics
    Filed under analysis
  3. Database Soup: 20 Rules of Software Consulting
    Filed under software, consultants
  4. 3v4l.org - online PHP codepad for 80+ PHP versions
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  5. Skill Matrix: Wie sich das Tool (in der Bewerbung) nutzen lässt | karrierebibel.de
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  1. At April 4th 2013, 12:20:39 am
    lstrojny started following pdezwart
  2. At April 3rd 2013, 10:29:44 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at InterNations/SolrQueryComponent
  3. At April 3rd 2013, 10:21:44 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at InterNations/SolrUtils
  4. At April 3rd 2013, 10:20:31 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at InterNations/SolrUtils
  5. At April 3rd 2013, 10:20:14 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at InterNations/SolrUtils
  6. At April 3rd 2013, 10:13:25 pm
    lstrojny pushed to master at InterNations/SolrUtils

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