For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from [...]

The first time I heard of Gearman was at Stack Overflow where a question was asked on how to stop workers nicely. On which an excellent joke was made by Cletus: “See now I was going to reply “Bitte halten Sie!” ” . Since then Gearman was stuck in my mind. So far I haven’t [...]

I’ve decided I should enter the Iron Man Blogging Challenge. Basically what you have to do is write 4 Perl related posts within 32 days, with a maximum interval of 10 days between every post. What’s in it for me? If I keep up with the frequency I get a cool badge to put on [...]

Which apparently is the slogan for launching Ubuntu 10.04. I think this is going to be a very nice LTS release. It’s too bad that they didn’t include Perl 5.12 in it, but that’s understandable as it just got released; although compiling your own is very easy. On the other hand, PHP 5.3 got in [...]

Just testing if my syntax highlighter works! #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings;   print "Hello World!\n"; This seems to be working and after some changes to my themes’ stylesheet it looks a bit better.

Today at work we decided to wait for the next LTS version of Ubuntu, 10.04. Currently we run 7.04 which is no longer receiving updates. For a while now actually. This summer I worked on planning the upgrade process from 7.04 to 7.10, and finally to 8.04. Which is the current LTS version. I was [...]