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QA Teams, Truth or Myth?

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This article was originally published in php|architect in May 2009 and I published it mostly as it appeared in the magazine shy of the odd formatting to fit the blog format better. — In the last couple of years, there seems to be a growing trend in the PHP world where application and library developers put out claims [...]

Backwards Compatibility

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This article was originally published in php|architect in April 2009 and I published it mostly as it appeared in the magazine shy of the odd formatting to fit the blog format better and updated a few year references. Just remember, this article was written a while ago and any references to PHP 4 reflect that, take it [...]

Version Naming

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This article was originally published in php|architect in February 2009 and I published it mostly as it appeared in the magazine shy of the odd formatting to fit the blog format better. Standards evolve all the time but this specific standard has not changed much at all since I wrote my article but as always for something written [...]

2011, PHP Advent and First-Class APIs

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And here we are, 2011, excitement in the air and all that jazz! It’s looking to be a great year ahead of myself and my company (echolibre). I’ll be speaking at a few conferences this year such as PHP Tek and writing articles for various magazines and online publications – I already have 2 slated for PHP [...]

Web Developer, what art thou?

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A few weeks back couple of my friends announced that they started a co-operative together called Analog. A highly talented group of guys who create web sites that will knock your socks off, and then some. The name is quite interesting, especially the meaning, to me Analog means personality, warmth, simple yet sturdy, tough yet [...]

PHP Advent

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With Christmas over it also means the annual PHP Advent calendar has been concluded. As with previous years, there is a good bunch of authors with a great choice of articles, worth reading if you haven’t done so already. You can also read 2008. I find the idea of article driven advent calendars absolutely fantastic, [...]

ZendCon, the aftermath.

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Now that ZendCon 2009 is over and I’m back home safely, albeit tired, in London after a whole week of giving presentations and meeting old friends and making new, I have an itch to reflect a little bit on the trip, reminisce if you like. First I would like to mention the talks I gave [...]

ZendCon 2009

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I just wanted to give everyone heads up on the fact that in a few days I will be flying over to San Jose to give 2 talks at ZendCon 2009. I will be presenting Frontend Caching – The “new” frontier, which is all about how to squeeze the most performance out of your frontend [...]

Where have I been? Well here's where!

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Just wanted to give people heads up that I made a new blog post at my companies blog about what I’ve been up to, for the most part, personally and professionally, the last 3 months or so: http://blog.echolibre.com/2009/07/conferences-conferences-conferences/ Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Conference, dpc, epicenter, iceland, oscon, phptek, Travel, zendcon

Changing Jobs

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As the title suggests, I will be changing jobs very soon. I have decided to leave Ibuildings UK and my last day will be Friday the 13th of March, scary isn’t it ? :-) I have accepted a job at echolibre, a company based in Ireland, where I will be heading up R&D, among other [...]

PEAR installer / channel and other articles

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I sometimes get people coming to me and asking “How do I take my X code base and package it up PEAR style” or “So I have packaged up my awesome library, I want to have my own PEAR channel, how do I do that ?” so in the end I decided I’d just write [...]

The secret sauce to Obamas success is …

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Now that Obama has finally won I think it is time to reveal the secret sauce in his campaign – PHP & PEAR – according to this article a LAMP stack was used to create the Obama site where PEAR was extensively used, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, ohh and really proud [...]

Ohloh providing download services for your OSS project

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I was just informed that Ohloh is now providing open source projects with a download service. While I haven’t tried it just looking over their FAQ seems like this could be really helpful to many smaller projects, well even bigger ones I think! CDNs, ability to access the access logs, cli uploads as well as [...]

PHP Barcelona 2008 – Wrap up

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Now the PHP Barcelona 2008 conference is almost over, I am sitting in the last keynote of the day – Derick is talking about XDebug. PHP Barcelona 2008 is a user group run conference, costing only 20 Euros for people to attend and it managed to garnish around 200 – 300 people, which shows that [...]

Speaking at PHP Barcelona next weekend

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Next weekend I’ll be talking at the PHP Barcelona conference (27th Sept) about how to deploy your website with the PEAR installer. It’s a relatively new conference and only a one day but already includes talk from big speakers like Derick Rethans, Scott MacVicar, Zoe Slattery and well my self :-D So do come by [...]