Feed: Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson - AggScore: 74.6

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 at [...]

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 and [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 web [...]

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 the [...]

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 So do come by to [...]

So the title says it all, kinda … For the next alpha release of PEAR that will happen in 2 – 4 weeks we’ll have a min dep of PHP 4.4 and 5.1.6, so basically excluding 5.0.0 – 5.1.5 Now why am I going to do that ? As any decent PHP developer know, PHP 4 is [...]

So I’m sitting here in Skien recalling the last 2 days in Amsterdam so I can write something really intelligent about it but I’m being somewhat foggy on some of the details Actually half of this blog was written after Skien since my laptop crashed mid way through this blog *sigh* – So [...]

So I finally decided that I’d attend Sebastians session, so the myth from last blog post is busted This is the first time I’m seeing Sebastian talk even tho I’ve been to couple of conferences with him so this is a new and hopefully fun experience. I wrote parts of this blog post during the [...]

So I have arrived to Amsterdam, finally, been on the road since 7am and it’s 7:30pm now I had my usual train problem in Amsterdam since I always forget what to pick when I’m buying a ticket to RAI, rather weird not having it as an option in the ticket buying machine, oh well [...]

In just a couple of days I’ll be in Amsterdam attending the Dutch PHP Conference and I must say I’m getting some excitement butterflies in me little belly. I’ve been trying to find a legit reason to go to Amsterdam yet again (previously went in 2005 for the International PHP Conference – IPC) and finally decided [...]

I want to make a bit different wrap up than most do, the community aspect with maybe a dash of what I saw as a attendee but mistah Ben Ramsey stole the idea and was quicker to post it Ramsey … FAIL His post is pretty good and sums things up rather nicely so go [...]