PHP ElePHPant Plush Toys
At PHPConf.Asia 2015, I bought the purple PHP ElePHPant plush toy from Jenny Wong for S$50, with proceeds going to PHP Women, a network supporting gender equality in the PHP community. On day two, I added the blue ElePHPant.
PHP
PHP the language, from version releases and plugin development to conferences.
PHPConf.Asia 2015 – The First Pan-Asian PHP conference
PHPConf.Asia 2015, the first Pan-Asian PHP conference, starts today. The two-day event is held at Kent Ridge Guild House in Singapore. We're honoured to have PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf give the opening keynote, and Jenny Wong the closing.
lesterchan.net on nginx/php-fpm & MariaDB
My site averaged about 1,900ms response time on Pingdom, rising to 2,600ms after switching to HTTPS while still on Apache 2.4.7 with PHP 5.5.9 via mod_php. Moving to nginx 1.6.2 and PHP 5.5.22 via php-fpm brought it back to 1,900ms.
Cacti
Spent the weekend wrestling Cacti onto this VPS. Because it runs WHM on CentOS, packages like Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl and Ruby are installed outside Yum, so the dependency check kept failing when installing rrdtool for graphing.
PHP 5.3.0 Released
The PHP development team has released PHP 5.3.0, a major improvement in the 5.x series with a large number of new features and bug fixes, including namespace support. A welcome update for anyone building modern applications in PHP.
PHP4 Is Dead, Long Live PHP5
PHP 4.4.9 has been released, the very last PHP4 update, as PHP4 reached end-of-life on 8th August 2008. PHP 5.3 is due between mid-September and mid-October 2008. So for goodness' sake, nag your lazy server admin to upgrade to PHP5!
Developing Plugins For WordPress
I spoke on Developing Plugins for WordPress at the Singapore PHP User Group's June 2008 meetup on Wednesday, 18th June. It was my second time speaking there, after the December 2007 meetup covering the same topic.
WorPress Plugin Development With PHP
I spoke on WordPress Plugin Development with PHP at the Singapore PHP User Group's December 2007 meetup on Wednesday, 12th December. It was my first time speaking publicly, so I was quite nervous and spoke very fast.