So I kinda had a thing going about blogging during ZendCon but lost it, so I might as well just do a single day wrap up. So ZendCon turned out to be completely worth it, even if only for the chance to meet in person a lot of the core PHP community and then drink [...]

Turned out to be a fairly exciting day. I woke up late wondering why my alarms didn’t go off, just barely got to lunch and regretted missing Jay Pipes‘ talk. Sara Golemon gave an interesting introduction to PHP extension writing. I bow to her vastly superior C-fu. I already discussed a few talks that I [...]

Eli White gave a talk called “The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development”. He compares software development methodologies to the old TV show Knight Rider, in that the main character, Michael Knight, was average and ordinary except for the fact that he had an applicable toolset for what he needed to do (KITT). Eli talks [...]

Elizabeth Smith discussed to a really interesting PECL extension, pecl_http. I can do request pooling! She also discussed pdo_user that allows you to create PDO drivers in userland (PHP). Good overview on PECL packages. It makes me sad that they have really cool extensions like the operator overload extension and I can use them because [...]