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The first alpha of the PECL Cairo extension I’ve been working on is finally out. Cairo is a 2D graphics library written in C with support for multiple output devices. The extension provides an Object Oriented API, but also includes procedural methods. This is similar to PHP’s date and mysqli extensions. [...]

In the normal course of a day I tend to volunteer for far more things than I have time to complete. This has happened once again for Ada Lovelace Day. I can never say no to crazy pledges so here I am with a very short expression of thanks to someone who has [...]

There have been some changes to internal PHP stuff for 5.3, and some don’t always show up unless you’re looking at your compile logs and testing with thread safety on. Currently Xdebug will crash and burn if you’re using it with 5.3 and ZTS on – I’m sure Derick will get it fixed when he’s back [...]

Been looking around for a pretty pink theme for awhile, so don’t be surprised if the look of this blog changes a lot over the next few days while I experiment.

Documentation for PHP Ever have an issue with PHP documentation and file a bug, only to have it sit for a long time? Or find a typo or other error in the documentation and have someone tell you “send me a patch”. PHP has, in my opinion, some of the best API documentation around. [...]

It’s like a giant game of tag around here! So Derick has so graciously tagged me – I suppose I need to do this before everyone has already been tagged! Warning – I ramble… I grew up in a Mennonite family and have some Amish relatives from my grandmother’s families. Yes we drove a car, [...]

I made this for Christmas dinner and even my picky brother-in-law liked it Ingredients: * 1 small onion, chopped * 1 stick of celery, chopped * 4 tablespoons butter * 2 tablespoons flour * 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules [...]

Something people tend to forget (myself included) is that I originally started this site for my writing. So I guess I need to spend a bit more time letting out the words that fill my head on a daily basis. If you normally visit for technical content, this may be a bit confusing. [...]

I’ve been working on a new Cairo extension for PHP (5.2+ only, OOP and functional) that was started for the gsoc Originally we were only going to support the lastest (1.6), but then the new 1.8 version was released and I started adding support to that as well. Then we noticed that dreadfully slow/out of [...]

How to get code coverage for PHP on Windows: You need to have a version of Microsoft Visual Studio with Code Coverage support (this means “Team Studio” or whatever name it has this month) This code coverage is NOT available in the Express versions or standard versions of Visual Studio (sorry) Compile PHP with the [...]