PHP DateTime and MSSQL

If you work with PHP and MSSQL as Database Backend you probably ran into the same issue like I did. The "Conversion failed when converting DATETIME from character string" error message.

Ubuntu awesomeness - Unity integrated time-tracking

We are using Ubuntu as our operating system since we started out with Fusonic in 2005. We were involved in the evolution of Ubuntu for a very long time now. We want to give you an insight on how well Ubuntu integrates into our daily business tasks with an example: our timetracking application.

Migrate to Bootstrap Journal #mtbj

Welcome to the first entry of our "migrate-to-bootstrap journal" series #mtbj. In this and following posts we will share our know-how which we gained and will gain while migrating our whole Fusonic Connect / Ribbl Community Software product line from a conventional (and outdated) layout system to Twitter Bootstrap v3.

How to: Compress image with trimage

There are lots of reasons to save file size, especially on the mobile web. More space and less traffic on the server. Speed up page rendering and limited bandwidth on the client. But there is a tool to get rid of that problem: trimage - it is free and helps to reduce image size a lot (over 25 % in our tests without loose of quality)! trimage bundles a bunch of image compression libraries, compresses the image and chooses the best result. Currently supporting PNG and JPEG.

Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile

Developing mobile apps can be quite costly and time consuming if you have to support multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone. There are many approaches trying to solve that problem. You could just simply live with it and develop native apps for each platform. You could use a cross platform toolkit like MonoTouch/MonoDroid. Or you could go for a web application / hybrid app like we did.

Chive 1.1 released - with PHAR package

I'm happy to announce the release of Chive 1.1, our powerful open-source web-based solution for MySQL database administration. Chive 1.1 is a major release with some very exciting new features.

Simplified PHP Spreadsheet / Excel Export

Three years ago I was pleased to announce SpreadsheetExport 0.1.0 by Fusonic - an open-source PHP library provided by Fusonic. Its purpose was to enable PHP developers to export spreadsheet-like data to various file formats while only writing their export logic once. You need to implement some kind of spreadsheet export in nearly every application - so did we in our Social Intranet Solution. Problem…

Chive 1.0 released!

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 1.0! Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool, designed to bring joy to web developers - with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. Our mission is to bring joy to web developers - every part in chive is optimized to speed so that web-developers can achieve any tasks easily and super-fast -…