If you ever get the above error message in PHP, this probably means that instead of a wsdl file that you wanted to load, you got an error message from the webserver (that was nicely wrapped into HTML with a DTD). The case that took me 2 hours to investigate today was a "403 Forbidden" message instead of the actual wsdl file i had requested. 404 and 500 would also trigger this. The correct message would have been "unable to load WSDL". Maybe this is trivial, but if you hit this, it might help saving time.

Last week we needed a place for the kickoff meeting of a project that is currently starting. Because everyone is always dragged away when in the office, we needed to find a quiet place with little or no external communication. After a littel research i found what i regarded the perfrect match: Kloster Obermarchtal. It is an old monastery still ran by the church, that can be used as a meeting place these days. So we booked the whole steering team of the project into this place and stayed there for a two days _true_ offsite. The atmosphere was very inspiring and we got a lot of work done. I personally also liked the sparse interieur of the rooms and the absence of sanitary high tech.

iBuildings arriving

under the cross

backlit

internet on wheels

Funny things happen when you work late and still try to have some social contacts. A few days ago i was dragged by my wife into a live gig of 31knots, a band from portland. I actually liked the performance a lot. And i would really like to know what these guys do to expand their minds when they write their songs... But check yourself: 31knots.