A new version of the php-excel extension, v0.9.7 was released and is now available for download at: https://github.com/downloads/iliaal/php_excel/php-excel-0.9.7.tar.bz2 This new version allow for compilation against latest version of LibXL 3.3.1 and provides wrappers for new functions available in LibXL 3.2.4+, which include the following: added ExcelSheet::getTopLeftView() and ExcelSheet::setTopLeftView() methods for getting/setting a view position in the sheet added ExcelSheet::addrToRowCol() and ExcelSheet::rowColToAddr() methods for translating Excel cell position to row/column definitions Additionally the extension's "info" section was modified to show the version of LibXL library the extension was compiled against.

My slides from the "Under the Hood" talk at IPC 2012 are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/ipc2012_under_the_hood.pdf

My slides introducing PHP 5.4.7 from the talk at IPC 2012 are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/ipc12_php54.pdf

My slides introducing PHP 5.4.7 from the talk at Guelph PHP user meetup are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/guelph_php54.pdf

The slides from my talk, Caching with Memcached are now available and can be downloaded here: http://ilia.ws/files/nena_memcached.pdf. Thanks for everyone who attended and asked questions, wish we had a bit more time to allow for more questions, but if anything was left un-answered come find me or post your questions on this blog. P.S. If you've seen the talk please don't forget to leave feedback at Joind.in.