Marketing that Open Source Tuesday

20 Originally uploaded by Br0m Today I asked Henriette Weber where to post the concept of “hack meetups” in Malmö to get folks to know about it. She said she’d email the BarCamp Copenhagen mailing list. Excellent idea. Thanks. Also, when making your mind up if you want to come, please tell me about it …

Obama, Open Government: machine-readable govt documentation trails

By reading random($foo), which had a long list of Obama facts, I now understand why Mr. Barack Obama is a chance for USA to heal. I endorse that guy. Read about machine-readable docs at the xkcd guy’s blog. Programming folks would be enabled and implicitly encouraged to create community tools that actually monitored the decisions …

Talk on software quality with phpUnderControl

Update: More details on the place, and THANKS to Peytz & co. for hosting. The dog ate my fine blog post about the PHP Meetup this past Thursday. So I reconstruct this from memory. The past Thursday, there was a PHP Meetup Copenhagen, and I talked about phpUnderControl, a continuous integration server for PHP. Basically, …

Mini-reminder: Mosig meetup at La Trattoria at 18:30 tonight

The amazing Malmö Open Source Interest Group (abbreviated Mosig) rolls on. “Odd Wednesday nights” is the meme that is our meetup schedule. The pizza place La Trattoria near Drottningtorget is the place to go. Also in the news: February 8 is the opening day for the new library in Sofielund. It’s called “Garaget” (English: The …

PHPUnit + runkit: now friendly together

To fake out resources when unittesting, you can now [1] use the runkit PHP extension, which adds some more dynamism to PHP, you get to: add methods, redefine classes runtime, or run code in safe sandboxes PHP heroine Sara Golemon created runkit, enabling this madness. (See her PECL user page for more of her Open …