While the product owner (me) was away on holidays the scrum team launched the renewed website of the Financial Times Deutschland.

And did a great job! (more…)

SCRUM

Google Drive is here now. It is said to be the Dropbox killer. I also heard it being called a trojan horse that brings surveillance to your files outside the web.

Actually I think it’s another missing piece in the puzzle called infrastructure.

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Google Drive · Google+

Yesterday some colleagues of mine launched the first German social reader magazine on Facebook after popular titles like The Guardian and Washington Post.

They added one feature that I sorely missed in the others.

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Facebook · social reader

Many of you are probably using Google AdSense and some of you might also know about Google Website Optimizer. But if you ever though about combining the two you will have learned that they are not exactly optimized to work together.

Well it can be done and doing it will eventually earn you more money!

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AdSense · Google Analytics · Website Optimizer

A few months ago we launched this app already but it got wiped again. Now after some refactoring and redesigning on our side and after some changes on the Facebook side (event creation no longer spawns a status update!) the app is live again still powered by Symfony2.

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Assetic · CoffeeScript · compass · Dropbox · Facebook · html5 · html5boilerplate · JQuery · SASS · Symfony2 · Tv-Programm · Twig

I am working on a little side project right now and as I try to build decoupled components I thought the best proof of concept would be to release such a component standalone on GitHub.

So if you want to work with EPG (Electronic Program Guide) XML data in PHP you now have a simple and effective way to do so.

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EPG · Iterator · PHP · XML

It took quite a while from the initial idea to the actual implementation. Most of which was spent learning Facebook and Symfony2. But it was well woth the hassle in many respects.

See Facebook TV Programm in action here!

Or read on.

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Facebook · html5 · Symfony2 · Tv-Programm