andrei zmievski

I’ve been doing conferences since July of 2006, when I attended OSCON in Portland, OR.

Since then I’ve been to 4 or 5 a year, mostly as a speaker (#humblebrag) but sometimes as an attendee plebian as well.

They have included joints like:

Becoming an American citizen a couple of years ago greatly eased travel-related headaches for me – no more visas to worry about (in general), way faster processing at the passport control, and so forth.

Because of this, I was finally able to make it to PHP UK conference this year, and I have to say that I enjoyed it very much.

The organizers did a great job with the venue, the social events, food, drinks, making sure things ran on time and a host of other things that I’m sure I didn’t even notice.

To everyone who participated in the Christmas Conundrum, I hope you enjoyed this little dose of holiday fun.

:-)

Congrats to everyone who solved it. If you're curious, here are the first seven people who solved it, in order:

On PHPBuilder.com today Jason Gilmore has an introductory tutorial to using the popular vim editor for your PHP development with more that just the basic features.

Yesterday on IRC, Andrei Zmievski mentioned a new song about PHP. Sean Coates linked to a YouTube video with the song, which I then mentioned on Twitter:

About a year ago, I finally wisened up to the obvious: 1) losing data sucks, and 2) doing daily (or frequent) backups manually are a pain in the ass, especially for portables. 2) is why most people forgo backups in the first place, resulting in 1).

I needed something that I could set up once and pretty much forget about. Thankfully, there was just the thing: Time Capsule  —  a single device that encapsulates both Airport Extreme base station and a huge hard drive, and can be used for automatic, transparent, wireless backups from any of your Mac devices via the Time Machine.

Andrei Zmievski has announced the release of the first stable version (1.0.0) of the memcached extension for PHP.

The initial list of the speakers for this year's ZendCon conference has been posted.

Speakers at this year's event include:

• Ed Finkler
• Sebastian Bergmann
• Jeff Moore
• Derick Rethans
• Chris Shiflett
• Aaron Wormus
• Andrei Zmievski

And many more - check out the full list to see what you can expect for this year's ZendCon!

The Ibuildings techPortal website has posted a new article from Lorna Mitchell looking at the new and improved memcached extension (as most recently updated by Andrei Zmievski).

As Andrei Zmievski points out, the notes from the PHP Developers Meeting have been posted to the php.net wiki.