While toying around with the flash maps from ammap.com I tried to create an interactive map that groups all countries by their respective timezones and automatically displays the current time each of them. I did not finalize all the little difficulties with it as I did not have a customer for it but I have to say that the flexibility that ammap provides is very impressive.

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You can see the result in the iframe or check out the big version of The World’s Timezones. If somebody …

For the inpatient reader: Ebay Sales Lister v0.4 Download
This morning I got a mail from Raul Carrillo from Spain who has done some extensions to the Ebay Sales Lister plugin for Wordpress that I am maintaining for some while now. Besides adding the Spanish version of ebay to the plugin, he also extended it with Spanish language support. Raul also wrote about it on his blog blog.metsuke.com.
While integrating his changes into my codebase I also did some other minor changes to the layout of the options widget, that you see …

I ran an indexing script - using ZEND Lucene - on a collection of 2,329 German news articles. Read my findings.

After playing around with ZEND Gdata to create a dynamic calendar for all games of ALBA Berlin for some time, I came up with the calendar you see embedded below. I am trying to integrate a gadget that will link directly to the game details on Fantasy Rotation, once we have launched that feature.
It is not finished yet, but it looks promising. Implementing some almost undocumented ZEND features was a bit more tricky than expected. ZEND is making extensive use of magic getters/setters which can give you some headache when …

While implementing a small example of a search engine for my trainees using the ZEND framework, I often stumbled into links from this page: MarkMail
The tool aggregates and orders mail archives. As their development blog reports,
Google is now embracing them for viewing and searching Google Code project list archives.
That might be the reason why they have been so high in the Google Search results lately. So lets keep an eye on them.
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You should not do that .. but I did. But as I said, YOU should not, so read on.
I installed phpDocumentor on XAMPP 1.6.8 using PEAR. The PEAR phpDocumentor documentation for version 1.4.2 said: To be able to use the web interface, you must set PEAR’s data_dir to a subdirectory of document root. If browsing to http://localhost/index.php displays /path/to/htdocs/index.php, set data_dir to a subdirectory of /path/to/htdocs:

$ pear config-set data_dir /path/to/htdocs/pear

When in a Windows environment the path separators are backslashes so I entered:

$ pear config-set data_dir c:\xampp168\htdocs\pear\

The I installed PhpDocumentor:

$ pear …