Wez Furlong's bloghttps://wezfurlong.org/enTue, 05 Aug 2025 06:35:28 -0000Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:35:28 -00001440MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.17.3Nonehttps://wezfurlong.org/ PHP<p><img border='0' alt='Soap' hspace='5' align='left' src='/images/loofa_soap.jpg'></p><p>I've been lucky enough to have been paid to do some work on the PHP/PECL so...</p>https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/soap/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/soap/Blog<p>I've finally succumbed to setting up a blog.Considering my already massively busy schedule, only time will tell if this leads anywhere...</p><p>This is pa...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/yet-another-blog/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/yet-another-blog/Blog<p>After looking at jBlog and a number of other PHP applications, I realized that they are all trying to do the same things during installation, some more co...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/a-php-application-installer/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/a-php-application-installer/Blog<p>I've given the PHP application installer thingy <a href="http://thebrainroom.com/opensource/php/installer.php">a more formal home</a>.</p><p>And as sugges...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/installer-update/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Mar/installer-update/Conferences<p><a href="http://marcus-boerger.de/">Marcus B&ouml;rger</a> and myself will be presenting a workshop at <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/May/sqlite-php-and-linuxtag/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/May/sqlite-php-and-linuxtag/Docs<p>Having been frustrated by the length of time that it takes to build the substantial PHP manual from its XML sources (45 minutes or so), I hacked together ...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/May/livedocs---making-docbook-less-painful/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/May/livedocs---making-docbook-less-painful/Docs<p>It was decided at the PHP Documentation Meeting at LinuxTag to go with livedocs as the solution for almost all of the PHP documentation problems.</p><p>Th...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/livedocs---update/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/livedocs---update/Conferences<p><a href='http://www.phpconference.de/2003/index_en.php'><img border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='/images/international_conf_2003_speaker.gif'></a>I w...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/international-php-conference/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/international-php-conference/Conferences<p><a href='http://php-con.com/2003/west/'><img border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='/images/phpcon_125x125_speaker.gif'></a>I will be <a href="http://ww...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/phpcon-west/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/phpcon-west/Conferences<p><a href='http://www.phparch.com/cruise/'><img border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='/images/phpcruise.png' alt='PHP Cruise'></a>Yet another conference...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/php-cruise/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Aug/php-cruise/Spam<p>For a while now, I've been receiving some spam "news" about investment opportunities. A while back I consigned it to my junk mail folder and forgot about...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/did-you-like-our-spam/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/did-you-like-our-spam/PHP<p>It just occurred to me that I didn't publish a link to these <a href="http://www.php.net/~wez/SQLite_and_PHP.ppt">SQLite Power Point Slides</a> from the t...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/sqlite-slides-from-linuxtag/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/sqlite-slides-from-linuxtag/Rant<p>I happened to reinstall my "desktop" machine with Windows Server 2003 the other day so that I could do some performance tests under IIS 6. I'm also in th...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/adobe-acrobat-reader-6/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Sep/adobe-acrobat-reader-6/Spam<p>This little gem was posted to the PHP security@ alias, which is intended to provide a means for confidential disclosure of critical security problems in P...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/partnership-with-bugsphpnetreportphp/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/partnership-with-bugsphpnetreportphp/s9y<p>As development zoomed forwards on jBlog, the name changed to <a href="http://www.s9y.org">Serendipity</a> and now it is 0.3 releases down the road.</p><p>...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/about-time-i-upgraded/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/about-time-i-upgraded/Conferences<p>PHP{Con West went very well for me - I got to meet most of the other PHP guys that I haven't seen before, as well as some of the familiar faces from Linux...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/phpcon-west/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/phpcon-west/Conferences<p>I've published a PDF from my <a href="http://www.php.net/~wez/extending-php.pdf">Extending PHP Tutorial</a>.</p><p>I will put an HTML rendition online som...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/phpcon-west-slides-for-extending-php/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/phpcon-west-slides-for-extending-php/Xander<p>The biggest drawback to going to conferences is that I'm missing my wonderful wife Juliette and our son Xander. Xander is 11 months old and has been chat...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/starting-to-talk/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Oct/starting-to-talk/PHP<p>Well, I'm finally back from my conference run. Despite some shortcomings with hotel 'net connections, nothing went badly.</p><p>One thing I'm particularl...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Nov/extdangerous/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2003/Nov/extdangerous/PHP<p>I found the time to fix up my ffi extension so that it largely usable;the main features that are missing are support for arrays and closures(aka callbac...https://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/Jan/ffi-is-here/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:34:40 +0000Wez Furlonghttps://wezfurlong.org/blog/2004/Jan/ffi-is-here/