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New in Xdebug 2.2: Colours on the command line
New in Xdebug 2.2: Colours on the command line London, UKWednesday, March 21st 2012, 09:43 GMTThis is the first article in a series about new features in Xdebug 2.2. Besides support for PHP 5.4, there...
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Working at 10gen
Working at 10gen London, UKThursday, April 5th 2012, 13:00 BSTAs of today I am working for 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. I have been contracting with them for a few months to work on the PHP...
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10 years of Xdebug and Xdebug 2.2.0 released
10 years of Xdebug and Xdebug 2.2.0 released London, UKTuesday, May 8th 2012, 14:00 BSTToday it has been ten years since the first release of Xdebug: version 0.7.0. I would like to celebrate this tenth...
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Ignite London: Crowd Sourcing a Map of the World
Ignite London: Crowd Sourcing a Map of the World London, UKTuesday, May 15th 2012, 09:47 BSTAlmost two weeks ago, I gave a talk at Ignite London about OpenStreetMap, titled "Crowd Sourcing a Map of the...
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MongoDB Cursors with PHP
MongoDB Cursors with PHP London, UKTuesday, May 22nd 2012, 09:15 BSTRecently I was asked to improve the MongoCursor::batchSize documentation. This began an indepth investigation in how the PHP driver...
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Fulltext Search with MongoDB and Solr
Fulltext Search with MongoDB and Solr Berlin, GermanyTuesday, June 5th 2012, 18:03 CESTIn this article I am explaining how you can tie MongoDB and Solr together. With the help of a little helper script...
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Indexing Freeform-Tagged Data
Indexing Freeform-Tagged Data Dieren, NetherlandsTuesday, June 26th 2012, 09:11 CESTAt last week's MongoDB UK I presented on "Geolocation, Maps and MongoDB". During this talk I presented a few methods...
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What is PHP doing?
What is PHP doing? London, UKFriday, July 13th 2012, 09:42 BSTSometimes when you have a long running PHP script, you might wonder what the hell it is doing at the moment. There are a few tools that can...
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Derick's MongoDB tour
Derick's MongoDB tour London, UKMonday, August 20th 2012, 09:12 BSTIt has been a while since I have written anything. In the last few months I have been busy rewriting the connection handling parts of...
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MongoDB and Drupal (@ DrupalCon)
MongoDB and Drupal (@ DrupalCon) London, UKMonday, August 27th 2012, 09:17 BSTLast week I spent in Munich, Germany attending and speaking at DrupalCon. This was my first DrupalCon, and I have to say I...
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Derick's MongoDB Tour Wrap-up
Derick's MongoDB Tour Wrap-up London, UKMonday, October 1st 2012, 14:00 BSTOver the past two weeks I have been on a whirlwind tour to talk about Profiling PHP Applications (at PFCongres), but mostly...
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Presentations
Presentations London, UKTuesday, October 9th 2012, 09:43 BSTIn the past 10 years I have given plenty of presentations. Since I started, I've always used the same presentation format. Because I am...
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Managing Pull Requests for the MongoDB PHP driver
Managing Pull Requests for the MongoDB PHP driver London, UKMonday, October 29th 2012, 09:22 GMTThe MongoDB PHP Driver is hosted as an Open Source project through GitHub. Everybody can check-out the...
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Address lookups with Leaflet and Nominatim
Address lookups with Leaflet and Nominatim London, UKTuesday, November 20th 2012, 10:52 GMTI recently wrote a patch for joind.in to add a map of an event's location to the event detail page. With the...
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Mongo is dead, long live MongoClient
Mongo is dead, long live MongoClient London, UKTuesday, November 27th 2012, 15:09 GMTThis afternoon we published version 1.3.0 of the MongoDB PHP driver. Besides a number of bug fixes since RC2 and...
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Maps (the non-digital variety)
Maps (the non-digital variety) London, UKThursday, November 29th 2012, 13:00 GMTAs you probably know, I am pretty much into OpenStreetMap and digital maps. I have always found (paper) maps, and...
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Connection Handling with the MongoDB PHP driver
Connection Handling with the MongoDB PHP driver London, UKTuesday, December 4th 2012, 09:07 GMTThe 1.3 release series of the PHP MongoDB driver features a rewritten connection handling library. This is...
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Debugging Connections with the MongoDB PHP driver
Debugging Connections with the MongoDB PHP driver Tokyo, JapanTuesday, December 11th 2012, 10:13 JSTIn a previous article I already mentioned that the 1.3 version of the MongoDB driver has improved...
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Read Preferences wth the MongoDB PHP driver
Read Preferences wth the MongoDB PHP driver London, UKTuesday, December 18th 2012, 09:41 GMTRead Preferences are a new Replica Set and Sharding feature implemented by most MongoDB drivers that are...
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Displaying OpenStreetMap data from MongoDB
Displaying OpenStreetMap data from MongoDB Mainz, GermanyTuesday, October 16th 2012, 11:12 CESTIn an earlier article I have already written about several different ways on how you could store...
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