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: ...
I always loved the idea behind OpenStreetMap. Mostly because of my open source experience and sites Wikipedia, these show that with enough people doing a little bit of work in the area they know, it is possible to create results which are better and more free than the conventional commercial offerings. I remember the time in London, when we had our little start-up and needed location maps for our customers and couldn’t find a good provider for this (there was no google maps or map24 at that time). So fools that we were we decided to write it ourself. We got the raw data on CD from TeleAtlas and one of our programmers got pretty far with a renderer. But before we could get anything useful map24 produced a much better version which we started using. But I always have been frustrated by the lack of open map data and open source renderers. ...
Another look at my New Year resolutions. I decided to do them every four months now, every three was a bit much. loose weight fail - I am doing more mountain biking and eat sensible, but I gave up on the gym. Working out with my N79 Active turned out to be a lot of fun. use my motorcycle more a little bit more use, small trips and some usage in town. Now I need to get a new ITV. ...
I forgot one: Take more advantage of Barcelona I did not spend enough time in the Zoo and the Park or the Beach this year. And I did not use the Chiringuitos, museums or open air cinema. There is a lot of stuff to do and I don’t want it to be like London where I did everything in the last two months.