Over the years there’s been a lot of tools to improve the performance of PHP. Sometimes, these were tools specifically aimed at PHP (such as APC or the Zend Optimizer), at other times we’ve been hooking into existing tools (such as Memcache). But in all these situations, the actual PHP code was left alone and…
Symfony Today and yesterday as well I have been in Paris. I have been attending a symfony training there. As I am already experienced in the framework, I was able to help a bit with helping the other attendees. It was a nice experience, and I hope in The Netherlands we can also do symfony…
This year the conference is bigger and better. More people will attend (which I guess will add to the less personal approach of the event, but what’s to be expected of an event this big?) but also there is an extra day. Aside from the regular conference day, there is now also a workshop day.…
Since I am working on quite some sites for myself, I was quite interested when I read the Steer CMS announcement on the symfony-users mailinglist. I took some time to evaluate it, specifically for symfony-framework.nl . And even though I decided against migrating to Steer CMS, I am still mighty impressed by the work the…
As I wrote before the adoption of PHP5, so long after it has been released is still quite low, I was surprised by David’s HOWTO on installing PHP6. I know, this one is aimed at those more tech-savvy people who want to fiddle around, but I truely feel that the PHP Group should focus first…
Through Aaron I found out about Yahoo! opening up their user authentication to third parties. The ease of having just a single log in for various sites worldwide is very userfriendly. I applaud the idea. However, not the implementation. As Aaron also notes, it can be confusing for users to be able to sign in…
It has been a while since I last read something by Elaine Cunningham. It must have been before I encountered BookCrossing. After that, I started reading more than just fantasy and sci-fi 😉 Elaine Cunningham is definitely one of my favorite fantasy authors, together with Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore. Her books in the Forgotten Realms…
I can not seem to find out if the movie Outbreak was or was not based on this book. There are too many similarities to say it’s coincidence, but there are too many differences to truely be the movie of the book. So maybe they just got inspired. I had little expectations before starting this…