Monthly Archives: June 2008

Speaking at ZendCon 2008

Posted by on June 27, 2008 No comments

Just a note that I’ll be speaking at this year’s Zend PHP Conference in Santa Clara, CA from September 15-18. This time around, I’ll be giving a new talk:

Rickroll To Go With PHP, WURFL, and Other Open Source Tools

Want to get that wallpaper on your iPhone or that Rick Astley video on your Nokia N95? In a world where mobile content is becoming more prevalent by the day, how can we enhance the experience of gathering images, audio and video for consumption on mobile devices?

Brian will demonstrate how you can leverage the Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL), PHP, ImageMagick, ffmpeg, and other open source tools to optimize content for consumption on mobile devices.

As is my normal custom, I’ll be practicing this talk at both work and maybe even Atlanta PHP sometime. See you all in sunny California!

Small news that’s big to me: my PHP Testfest submissions made it into 5_3!

Posted by on June 12, 2008 10 comments

Someday I’ll look back on this post and think it’s super lame, but my recent submission of two tests for PHP’s putenv() function made it into PHP_5_3! I’ve officially made a contribution…it’s a red letter day, folks. Without Atlanta PHP and PHP’s Testfest, none of this would have been possible. :)

See the CVS commit message here

Specifically, these two tests test the use of putenv() with INI settings safe_mode_allowed_env_vars and safe_mode_protected_env_vars set. I just wanted to do my part to increase the code coverage a little bit, that’s all. Too bad safe mode is being dropped in PHP 6, but ssssshhhh!