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Tuesday, April 6. 20041st Post!
If Porsche can have an SUV, I can have a blog!
While this is not technically the very post, it is the first official online rant by your's truly. Well, that's not entirely true either, since I rant on a regular basis on internals mailing list about wide variety of topics. But let's ignore the facts for a moment, they only tend to get in the way of things. Anyhow, on with the introduction. I finally decided to get of my lazy ass and design a site for myself. Rather amusing, given that I've been directly and indirectly involved in the design of hundreds of websites in the past. For the moment only the blog is online, however I will add other tidbits in the near future. The biggest difficulty was lack of a good (short) domain. Despite having a fairly rare name, that I tend to spell differently that some of my namesakes (Ilia vs Ilya) this had proven to be quite a challenge. All common domain extensions were taken with the expiry date no where in sight and when they did approach the said date they were promptly renewed  . When I turned to country based domain extensions, to my great surprise I discovered that the vast majority of possible options were too reserved. In fact, ilia.ca is owned by some fella from Vanier (Ontario Canada) who is using an e-mail address name virtually identical to mine. For some strange reason, even though his last time does not begin with an 'A' his e-mail login is iliaa@sympatico, while mine is ilia@sympatico (HA! I got my account 1st). That said I tend to use iliaa quite frequntly since ilia often tends to be taken .After a bit of research, I've come to a conclusion that to get ilia.[extension] I'd have to resort to using some strange country code like .cn (China) or (.tw) (Taiwan) or even stranger variants such as .co.nz. Fortunately, I remembered about the newly added .ws (WebSite) domain extension, which to my great surprise was not yet taken by some domain squatting bastard (See: http://ilia.com, http://ilia.net, http://ilia.org/) and grabbed it for myself. Which is what made the page you are looking at possible. Tuesday, April 6. 2004Look Ma , I'm a writer!
My inner workaholic is hard at work making sure my daily work load does not drop below the minimum of 12 hours. Consequently I will be writing another article for PHP|Architect in addition to the one (404 handling) that will be published in April's issue. This time I will foray into the exciting world
 of making complex URL requests via PHP through the newly introduced context parameter in addition to the old favorite, cURL.On the positive note, Marco will have an absolutely 'smashing time' trying to make sense out of my drivel. MUWAHAHAHAHA! Tuesday, April 6. 2004Spring International PHP Conf.
May 3 - 5
Amsterdam, Netherlands http://www.phpconference.com/ At this conference I will be giving my two favorite talks. One about SQLite and the other about optimization of PHP. Here is a detailed description of the talks themselves for those who are interested in attending. Accelerating PHP Applications without changing their Source. A detailed tutorial on how to increase speed of PHP applications via third party tools, environment tuning and various compiler tricks. Introduction of opcode caching mechanisms, review of their capabilities and a comparison of their performance benefits. Analysis of various proxy caching mechanisms and webserver tuning parameters. Overview of OS and environment parameters that can bring significant performance benefits. Indepth Overview of SQLite Database and its PHP Interface. detailed tutorial on how to increase speed of PHP applications via third party tools, environment tuning and various compiler tricks. Introduction of opcode caching mechanisms, review of their capabilities and a comparison of their performance benefits. Analysis of various proxy caching mechanisms and webserver tuning parameters. Overview of OS and environment parameters that can bring significant performance benefits. |
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