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> From: Michael Wechner
> To: general@oscom.org
> Subject: [OSCOM] JSR-170 and PHP
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:01:25 +0200
>
> It seems that the Typo 3 community is adapting the JSR-170
>
> http://typo3.org/documentation/mailing-lists/dev-list-archive/thread/60148/
>
> which is cool :-)

Cool, really cool! (At least it sounds so ;))


Edit: There's some more information (the thing is going to be OSS), but the really interesting bits can't be told... NDA... See yourself

Moblogging from etoy.MONOROM's bday party @ etoy.TANK-PLANT4, MFO Park, Zürich.
Awesome to finallly see all those folks in meatspace!
Both joyful and painful indeed :)

See that book cover? See my name? Ha! ;-)
My first one... doesn't actually look beautiful, but it is our baby still - Ain't it sweet? :)

I already told you what it's all about, and they should even be done with printing by now.
If you want one, you can get it at Amazon, from the publishing house or come to Zürich and win one!!
Would be really nice to see you at "the battle"

I have no idea how this post made twice to planet-php.. I have to guess it's this tool's fault..

No doubt geeks like printed t-shirts. I don't wear the "/(bb|[^b]{2})/" one that much any more, so finding kitchener in Berne by chance gave a welcome opportunity for a resupply. Todays shirt-shopping crop turned out to be pretty ok: a yellow one by tarzan, a [aem’kei] (with a hagakure motif :)) and a green one(see below) by 2ktshirts. You have to check 2ktshirts, they have a great collection of printed t-shirts with motifs by fresh designers and renowned artists.
The one shirt I have from tomorrowcomes still remains one of my favourites - beside the generic black :)
I rarely find clothes I really like, so this was a pretty successful day.. I just shouldn't think about that I'd actually should rather be busy evaluating e-learning software and -I tend to forget about- preparing for my final exams...
So, I'll be in production mode tomorrow (writing) and switch then over to communications mode for monday's meeting of the board and then -finally- for the trip to Ireland.

Kaywa blogs are always good for a surprise. Today I was told about a nice little feature present -but hidden- in all their blogs: an ASCII image filter.
It makes ordinary images like that one look like this :-)
There are some other and more useful features missing, but that's another story.. ;-)

The preliminary workshop programme for FOAF Galway has been published today. I'm looking forward to all those exciting presentations and interesting researchers, among them some guys from the neighbourhood (more or less): Nicolas Nova and Roberto Ortelli will present "rss4you". I would have liked to meet this two local bloggers for quite some time now, seems like I have to fly to Ireland to make it happen :)

All-time favourite ActionScript artist and design icon Yugo Nakamura (Yugop) is starring Shift's current cover interview.
Nice interview and as usual amazing visuals.
I should say that yugop.com was a major source of inspiration for me and two of my best friends, back then, as absolute programming novices, we spent countless hours trying to figure out how that exciting stuff was done.
Kudos to Yugo.

PS: The node of wisdom «Context Viewer» looks pretty interesting for example.. wonder what's behind it (again)!

PPS: Forgot linking to his award-winning NEC ecotonoha project!

"How can I use existing PDF documents as templates in PHP scripts?" is an FAQ. Apart from primitive and risky (I guess) string replacement, I haven't heard of any reasonable approach until Oliver of FPDF announced FPDI today. FPDI is an extension for FPDF which adds templating support based on PDF "Form XObjects" to the already amazing capabilites of the free pdf generator FPDF.

GOVERNOR. I have called you together, gentlemen, to
tell you an unpleasant piece of news. An Inspector-General
is coming.

Thursday we went to see The Inspector-General (Der Revisor) by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol at the 25. Zürcher Theater Spektakel. It was performed by the Lithuanian theater company of award-winning director Alvis Hermanis. It was very Soviet, and intentionally, even provokingly, extremely old-fashioned, direct and straightforward. In an interview Hermanis made his case and explained that after all those "postmodernist" disturbance and perversions, on-stage brutality, nudity et cetera, the only way to be avant-garde these days was to make theater as it used to be, simple and uncooked: extremely normal theater. Actually this was an amazing experience, I -and I guess most of the public- kept feeling strangely alienated by this classic Russian comedy, which is so inherently Russian that the director said he was fairly surprised how an audience of foreigners with a cultural background so different could actually like it as much as it did. He found a nice picture for this situation saying it must "feel like sex with two condoms". And as the entire play was spoken in Lithuanian, the German-speaking audience wore wireless earplugs and listening to both the actors' text and a simultaneous translation, he even called it "telephone sex with two condoms". :)
You can listen to parts of that interview (mostly in German) at DRS2.
If you want to see this amazing inspector-general: They play it a third and last time this Saturday evening.