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ZendCon Report - Power!
There is an amazing dearth of power outlets here. I may need to steal the six-way splitter that's in the room and carry it around with me so that when I'm actually lucky enough to be near a power outlet that's occupied, it can be shared ( Read more... ) -
ZendCon Session Report - Extending PHP
I'm not really going to go too much in detail about the Extending PHP session I was at yesterday, which was presented by Marcus Boerger and Sara Golemon. It was a pretty technical look at how to write extensions for PHP. Any discussion on extending php, though, has to explain a fair amount of php's internal workings, and that's really why I was ( Read more... ) -
ZendCon Session Report - Improving Performance of PHP Applications
The first session I attended today was on improving the performance of PHP applications, presented by Ilia Alshanetsky. It was pretty informative, but he spent a significant amount of time talking about optimizations that, while relevant, aren't php-specific, which makes them both useful for all websites, not just PHP applications.- Apache ( Read more... )
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San Jose - Day 3
Slept like a brick last night, and woke up thismorning after getting nine hours of sleep ( Read more... ) -
San Jose - Day 2
Wound up not doing much of anything today - just napped on jnespuxah's couch for awhile trying to combat jet lag. It didn't work too well, it's "only" 8 am, and I'm starting to fall asleep ( Read more... ) -
California - Day 1
Out in California this week to attend the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo. Flew out from BWI Saturday morning, with a brief layover in Houston, before arriving in San Jose in the afternoon. A little to my surprise, both flights departed and arrived on time, even after taxing forfuckingever in Houston. Much to my surprise, the swiss army knife on my ( Read more... ) -
Airbags in Sci-Fi!
I was finally watching Crest of the Stars today, that grysar loaned me awhile back and which I forgot to watch until now. In one scene, the main characters crash the escape module of their shuttle into a planet, and for a fleeting second, when they're picking themselves up after coming to a stop, you can see that airbags had deployed ( Read more... ) -
Predictions
In ten years, in order to fly on a commercial airplane, you will be naked and restrained in a locked box, after a full cavity search.
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Hasta la Vista, Vista
One of Apple's various banners poking fun of Windows at WWDC is subtitled "Hasta ls vista, Vista".
If only they could have gotten Arnold Schwarzenegger to say that. Fortunately, a little audio-editor magic, and he can.
Thanks, Magic_Al, for the idea. -
Stupid Unreliable Technology
At least that's one thing I can scratch off my list of things to do...
473. Become trapped in an elevator for half an hour.
At least I got a good nap in while waiting for the elevator tech to come out and open the door...