PHP 5.3.0 and Zend Guard / Zend Optimizer

If you are using Zend Guard to encrypt your PHP applications, you probably don’t want to update your server environment to PHP 5.3.0: Zend Guard (for encoding your PHP files) and Zend Optimizer (for decoding your PHP files) are not yet available for this PHP version and so upgrading should break your application.

OXID gets a Portuguese translation

Portuguese language is available for OXID eShop. Italian hopefully coming soon. The gettext library shall be implemented into the OXID framework. Better collaboration with dev.oxidforge.org in a few days.

First Open Source Meeting in Leipzig

On November 11th at 7 PM the First Open Source Meeting in Leipzig will take place in the cellar of Cafe SPIZZ. Florian Effenberger from OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. and Carsten Book from Mozilla Corporation will attend and speak about their projects. This evening will be held in a similar style like the Webmondays.

DNS fail: Kabeldeutschland

Very strange experience with Kabeldeutschland as my ISP: They totally failed maintaining their own DNS servers. Service = zero. Find out how to help yourself in a case like this.