We like to invite you to the PHP 5.3 release party which is an event to
celebrate the 5.3 release, happening Friday, the 17th of July in Munich.
The release party offers a chance to come together with other php
enthusiasts and enjoy that php is alive and kicking. And of course people
in …
I think most of the people using PHP wonder from time to time about particular behavior of the language. That’s pretty much the same case with every language. Pythoneers have their wtf moments, Ruby programmers have their wtf moments and C programmers tend to live in a whole wtf universe. But lately I stumbled …
The PHP BBQ Tour organized by Ulf Wendel and various PHP Usergroups in Germany will stop in Karlsruhe. For those of you living near Karlsruhe, it’s definatly worth to join us. There will be food, drinks and I’m sure it’ll be a great evening. Information can be found here
There were some rumors recently about Gopals ext/scream. This extension disables the @ operators and therefore makes all errors visible. If you want to use the extension you have to build the extension and restart your PHP modules so that the extension is loaded.
But there is a more elegant to get the same behavior. …
We will have another great PHP Testfest this year in Munich on Thursday and Friday 16th/17th April. This time we will also have a nice evening event with some talks around testing PHP and PHP’s internals. So it’s not just a great place to get in contact with other people from the community but …
As Johannes tagged me, here are my 7 things:
I leared PHP because I wanted to write a form mailer for a website.
When I was 13 years old, I spend a lot of time on a city network called RivalNet, causing a telephone bill of 600DM. There were no flatrates at that time.
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Dtrace is an extremely flexible and powerful tool to trace and debug applications. I recently dtraced PHP a little bit, so here is a tutorial how to start dtracing PHP.
Prequisites
You need a dtrace capable operating system like Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X 10.5 or FreeBSD 7. I use dtrace on OpenSolaris 2008.11. You …
I wonder if the concept of amazon whishlists work. Or have you ever got something from your whishlist, because you did something in/for PHP?
Please note that this blog post is outdated. please refer to the mercurial help for more information about bookmarks.
A few month ago, Matt Mackall the maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, came up with the idea to implement so called bookmarks for mercurial.
Basic idea
The basic idea of these bookmarks is simple. Instead of …
I gave a talk about sharding at the International PHP Conference 2008. I started with a short introduction about the problem that sharding tries to solve. Most of the talk was about the actual implementation and problems that people might run into if they try to use sharding in their projects. Ulf already gave …