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Hello!

My name is Milian Wolff and I’m from Berlin, Germany and was born on August 19th 1988. Currently I am studying physics at the FU-Berlin and will hopefully get my BSc around 2010.

On this website I’m writing about web development, programming, open source, KDE, Linux and other computer related topics. Every now and then some rants about religion might creep in as well.

Make sure you check out my projects and take a look into the Code Snippets section.

One appeal to any native speaker out there: If I write crappy English (which would not suprise since German is my first language) please correct me by writing an email.

My Projects

You can find some of my projects on GitHub.

PHP Plugin for KDevelop 4

In december 2008 I started contributing to the PHP plugin for the KDE4 version of KDevelop. My vision is a state-of-the-art plugin with support for language introspection, on-the-fly validation, auto-completion, refactoring, code generation and semantic highlighting. It’s a work in progress which already has quite some very nice features. You can follow its development via SVN or take a look at our feature plan for Quanta 4.

Qalculate! Backend for Cantor

I’m a pretty big fan of Qalculate!, a library for advanced calculators. Especially it’s support for units helped me a lot as a Physics student. There are official UIs for GTK, KDE3 and a CLI app, yet until end of 2009 no KDE 4 interfaces was on the horizon. Given that Cantor got moved to KDE Edu, I decided to try and write a backend for it. It’s still experimental, but I hope to make it ready for prime time with KDE 4.5.

Download script for SpringerLink ebooks

I’ve written a script which simplifies the process of downloading ebooks from SpringerLink.com. It started as a Bash Script and was rewritten in Python since. It is recommended to use the Python version if possible. The script downloads all chapters of a book and merges them into one PDF-file.

KTextEditor Linter Plugin

I wrote a plugin for KTextEditor which supplies Kate and Kwrite among others with basic syntax checking.

Markdownify

This neat little PHP class lets you convert HTML into Markdown. It is the successor to html2text.php and comes now with a much improved design and by far more stable conversions. It enables you to write your texts in either HTML or markdown and swap at any time!

Why that’s important? Because that way you can save your contents in one format. Content editors can then choose their input formatting of choice. Be it Markdown or HTML. Additionally your server doesn’t need to create HTML out of Markdown for each and every page impression. This saves time and resources!

Typogridder

A little javascript bookmarklet to display a typographic baseline grid. More information can be found on the project site.

Other projects I participated in

The good thing about open source is that everybody is allowed to improve existing code. I frequently do so if the piece of software uses a language I’m confident in - i.e. PHP. Following is a list of projects I wrote patches for:

GeSHi

I got involved in GeSHi around the release of version 1.0.7.21 and started to write patches which resulted in an increased performance. Now I also add new features, fix bugs and will help out with the upcoming 1.2 series.

Drupal modules

When I started using Drupal 6 for this website some - for me - crucial modules had not yet been ported. So I stepped in and started to port:

I have also filed patches for a bunch of other modules:

list of minor participations
  • I wrote the shell engine for PEAR Text_Diff
  • I translated the jQuery datepicker to German and fixed a bug inside jQuery itself
  • patched a thing or two for PHP Markdown