schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - PHP community card deck Derick pointed me to these funny cards, yesterday. Really cool work, I think, and propably quite useful, if you go to a conference without knowing anybody. ;) Thanks to Cal for this great piece of artwork! - Apache vs. Lighttpd: "echo" performance For a little private project, which makes extensive use of caching, I recently checked, where I could get gather some more performance from. Kore told me, that Lighttpd ships all of the pages of one of his projects in about 0.001 seconds, while mine still took 0.004 seconds on Apache. After some tracing I found the actual point of problem: The echo of the final output, which took most of the time. I tried to run the same project on Lighttpd and guess what: There were the 0.001 seconds. - eZ components on Ohloh I tried a several times to get eZ components (and other eZ projects) into Ohloh. Ohloh claims to do "Mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source projects", which fits the website content quite well. If I got the basic project idea correctly, it should give managers an impression on the quality and usability of open source projects. Since managers usually want to have "hard facts", Ohloh tries to masure numbers it can extract from various public project data (e.g. from SVN). - The PHP OO candy store The october issue of the International PHP Magazine has been published, including "The PHP OO candy store", an article about PHP5s cool OO features and SPL. The article looks cool and I was really suprised to see that it became the cover story. :) - Reading recommendation: PHP Design Patterns Yesterday I received "PHP Design Patterns", the new book written by Stephan Schmidt, a well-known PHP community member and creator of cool library packages, like most of the PEAR XML section. I seized the time on the tram yesterday night to take a look at it and I have to admit I'm quite impressed. Stephan managed to write down a lot of practical experience in respect to the implementation of OO patterns with PHP. - PHP Weekender: All slides online I've just put the slides from our PHP Weekender event online. You can find them on the PHP Weekender website for download. - Final roundup: PHP Weekender is over The second day of the PHP Weekender is over now, too. We are happily looking back on a great event and I want to thank Benjamin Schwertfeger and Dave Kliczbor form the Computer Sience faculty of the University of Dortmund for their engagement. Beside that, we want to thank all the attendees and my fellows form the PHP Usergroup Dortmund for coming and making this event such a great success! - A great success: PHP Weekender day 1 The first day of the PHP Weekender (the free-of-charge, 2-day PHP event organized by the PHP Usergroup Dortmund) just comes to an end and we are heading out for the social event. All in all, I have to say, it is a fantastic event and we are really happy about its success. - Last change: Know a lot about PHP in 2 days, for free! I just returned from vacation and realized, that the PHP Weekender (the free-of-charge workshop weekend for PHP enthusiasts, organized by the [http//phpugdo.de PHP Usergroup Dortmund]) has 90 verified, registered attendees so far. This is really cool, we never expected such a huge number of signups! Anyway, the PHP Weekender starts on upcoming Saturday, October 7th. If you did not register, yet, you should take your heels and run to our website, since we will only accept registrations until tomorrow 12:00 CET. - 3 years of blogging Yes, it's true, exactly 3 years ago I wrote my first blog entry. By that time I would never have imagined, that I would keep blogging for more than 3 years and that more or less constantly. My weblog now contains 458 entries. Surely, there is some bulshit in it and if I go back, I sometimes wonder, why a specific entry was worth blogging to me. Anyway, in this entry, I want to make a little journey with you and give you some links to the most interessting / annoying / funny / useful / useless / ... blurbs on this site. But before we start, here some more or less actual stats: