Archive for the 'Articles' Category

Article About Marketing Open Source PHP Software in German PHP Magazin

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

German PHP Magazin published an article written by myself with some guidelines how to market Open Source software based on PHP. Grab the current issue 5.2008 and check out the article entitled “Auf die offene Art”.

Interview on CMSWire

Friday, January 11th, 2008

CMSWire asked me to be the first they interview for their brand new column Flash Quiz. If you ever wondered how much I sleep and whether I like fancy cars, check out Flash Quiz: Sandro Groganz Speaks.

Article on MySQL Administrator in Int. Linux Magazine

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Linux Magazine coverThis month’s Issue 42 of the International Linux Magazine ships with a review I have written about MySQL Administrator.

Article on New MySQL Extension

Saturday, March 20th, 2004

Zak Greant and Georg Richter have put together an excellent article on the new MySQL extension.

Linux-Magazin Publishes Review of MySQL-Administrator

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

Linux Magazin 04.2004 The current issue of the German Linux-Magazin ships with a review I wrote about MySQL-Administrator.

Article on MySQL Transactions in “iX”, German Magazine for Professionals

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

Today, the current issue of iX has published my article on transactions in MySQL. It’s a comprehensive and brief introduction to the topic. The text is written in German. To obtain it, you buy iX at a kiosk or in a fiew weeks online in the virtual kiosk.

Linux-Magazin Publishes MySQL Con Report

Friday, May 9th, 2003

The German Linux Magazin published Sandro’s report from the first MySQL User Conference, which is also available online [1].

[1] http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2003/06/mysql/mysql.html

Against the Grain: Getting Projects To Work Together

Tuesday, May 6th, 2003

Some thoughts on collaborating Free and Open Source projects by Gregor J. Rothfuss and Paul Everitt:

“Last year we wrote a piece here questioning whether open source projects were motivated to work with each other. This article was in the context of our work with OSCOM and its attempts to bring together open source content management projects and developers.

The article stimulated some interesting questions. Now that we’ve had some time to take some steps and try some ideas, we thought it appropriate to report back.”[1]

via OSCOM general mailinglist

[1] http://www.advogato.org/article/657.html

A Distributed Computing Pattern Language

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

This wonderful paper by Frank Buschmann and Kevlin Henney provides some useful information about software design patterns for distributed computing. A worthwhile read for relaxation at the weekend ;) The document has been written for the EuroPLoP 2002 conference. There are some more very interesting texts available at http://www.hillside.net/patterns/EuroPLoP2002/.