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The blog post gives you a short introduction into the session management of Compojure.

I really enjoy giving talks. This is particularly because I like to teach people something and because I’m really enthusiastic about the technical things I talk about. Once of these things are obviously decentralized version control system, in particular Git and Mercurial. Finally after two years of submitting talks to various conferences, people and conferences [...]

Why lisp can be sooooo sweet. A clojure class extending java.

compile it

(set! *compile-path* “build”)
(compile ‘net.experimentalworks.clojure.outdegree)

Ah yeah and hsv2rgb transformation:

Scala is a fascinating language. Running on the Java VM, Scala offers a powerful mixture from both the imperative Java world and functional programming including modern techniques like Actors. Personally I prefer to not just learn programming languages, but also try them out while reading through the book.
As I wanted to have nice a build [...]

We like to invite you to the PHP 5.3 release party which is an event to
celebrate the 5.3 release, happening Friday, the 17th of July in Munich.
The release party offers a chance to come together with other php
enthusiasts and enjoy that php is alive and kicking. And of course people
in favour of a decent barbecue, [...]

I think most of the people using PHP wonder from time to time about particular behavior of the language. That’s pretty much the same case with every language. Pythoneers have their wtf moments, Ruby programmers have their wtf moments and C programmers tend to live in a whole wtf universe. But lately I stumbled over [...]

The PHP BBQ Tour organized by Ulf Wendel and various PHP Usergroups in Germany will stop in Karlsruhe. For those of you living near Karlsruhe, it’s definatly worth to join us. There will be food, drinks and I’m sure it’ll be a great evening. Information can be found here

There were some rumors recently about Gopals ext/scream. This extension disables the @ operators and therefore makes all errors visible. If you want to use the extension you have to build the extension and restart your PHP modules so that the extension is loaded.
But there is a more elegant to get the same behavior. Using [...]

We will have another great PHP Testfest this year in Munich on Thursday and Friday 16th/17th April. This time we will also have a nice evening event with some talks around testing PHP and PHP’s internals. So it’s not just a great place to get in contact with other people from the community but also [...]

As Johannes tagged me, here are my 7 things:

I leared PHP because I wanted to write a form mailer for a website.
When I was 13 years old, I spend a lot of time on a city network called RivalNet, causing a telephone bill of 600DM. There were no flatrates at that time.
I studied analytical philosophy [...]