Hi Liz, I was going to send this letter as an e-mail, but as I was writing the e-mail I felt it necessary to turn this into an open letter. Everybody should see this, and be aware of this. Everyone should stand up to support you. Openly, not just in private. It is amazing how…
Just a quick blogpost today about Solr. If I help someone with this post, good. If I help myself to remember this, good. In a project I’m currently working on I’m stuck with a legacy database where I can’t change the fields for fear of breaking a legacy application that is using the same data.…
Very recently, elePHPant herder Cal Evans released a new book: Signaling PHP. The book is about handling signals when writing PHP CLI scripts that are long-running scripts. One could think of a daemon-like script, a long-running importer script or similar applications. I considered reading it on my flight to TrueNorth, but since I was waiting…
At the most excellent PHPNW conference, Kat convinced me to deliver the first unconference talk of the day. It took me a while to get the right topic. I ended up with a topic I felt everyone at the conference could use for the rest of the two days that they were there: How to…
This blogpost has been on my TODO-list for a couple of YEARS now, so I thought it was time to finally write and publish it. It is actually not at PHP, but I hope all you PHP devs do stick with me and read the whole blogpost, as I think it is about a topic…
I recently received a bugreport from a client that was very hard to debug: There were only very specific moments where the bug was reproducable, and those moments were usually in the weekend. So I decided to change the date on my Vagrant-boxes for the API and website to last Sunday to try and reproduce…
Who’s this? Oh wait, it’s me. I’ve finally taken the time to fix my blog. This means my archive of old blogposts is back, although unfortunately the comments are not. I took some time yesterday at the most excellent PHPNW 2013 conference to finally get my new blogging software (Octopress) up and running, together with…
At the start of the day the group was split up into three smaller groups. Together with Felix De Vliegher the first group sat down to work on the Gearman extension. Together with Derick Rethans the second group started working on tests for the MongoDB extension, and the rest of the group joined Rafael Dohms…
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…