by boite-en-valise A new year means new resolutions. But first a quick look back at the ones from last year. On the fail side: I didn’t loose weight, neither did I use my motorcycle more or took a lot more advantage of Barcelona. Success on: sorting out my music collection, travelling somewhere new, doing more programming and blogging a bit more. ...

Now that another decade comes to an end, it is time for me to see if the ten years really were worth the effort. Overall it seems to have been more pain than was strictly necessary. 2000 - it all started quite nice. I just turned 30 and was living in London, just got together with my girlfriend and working for guideguide a very nice start-up which was going quite well at the time. One highlight of the year was a trip to OSCON in California, where I witnessed the beginning of Perl6, which seemed brilliant at the time and now appears a bit pointless. ...

Fedora now has been out for a few weeks and I can summarize my experience with it a bit. I have installed it on four machines: - netbook (Eee PC 901) new install with a 32bit live USB stick - media centre (ancient custom AMD Duron) upgrade with the 32bit DVD - home PC (AMD Phenom 9350e) upgrade with the 64bit DVD - work PC (Dell Intel) with 64bit preupgrade ...

Even shorter summary of the second day of the Barcelona PHP conference. (see here for day 1) Zend_Cache… by Enrico Zimuel This was a introduction to the cache component of the Zend framework. It pretty much does what you expect: it wraps the common types of caching ( file, apc, memcached, …) into a common API to make them easy to swap and use. It also has helper objects to support caching of PHP output with output buffering. ...

First day of phpconference.es is finished and it was very enjoyable. The location was the same as last year, so was the quality of the organization. I saw six talks, here are small summaries: KISS by Derick Rethans: Pretty much a beginners, introduction and common sense talk. Most of it not even directly relevant to PHP. A bit of a disappointment, might have been more interesting for customers than developers. No slides up yet, but they were very similar to these: Kiss Phpnw08 Trees in the database by Lorenzo Alberton: ...