Available for PHP Extension Writing

Monday, March 15th 2010, 12:28 GMT

London, UK

Slightly more than a month ago I left my job as team-lead of eZ Components at eZ Systems behind, to focus on something new. During the past month I've been contemplating about what to do next and realized that I do not want to take on a new full-time position right away. Instead I will be available to work on (custom) PHP extensions and internals related issues. Extensions are a great way around PHP's limitations and performance issues.

As first project I am working on a "QuickHash" extension for StumbleUpon. This extension circumvents PHP's hefty memory (and performance) overhead by providing more specific data structures. The extension currently implements integer sets and integer to integer hashes. I am now adding integer to string hashes and string to integer hashes. The QuickHash extension will be released under the PHP Licence and I will dedicate another post to it later.

If, like StumbleUpon, you are also interested in having work done on PHP or a specific extensions feel free to contact me. I'd be happy to discuss things with you.

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Hodicska Gergely

Monday, March 15th 2010, 12:54 UTC

Hi Derick! Good luck for the new projects!

Maarten Balliauw

Monday, March 15th 2010, 13:11 UTC

Hello Dereck,

Converting PHPLinq (www.phplinq.net) into an extension would be a nice thing to have in PHP. Feel free to contact me if this is of interest to you.

Best regards, Maarten

Joey Smith

Monday, March 15th 2010, 18:27 UTC

Maybe we ought to get some kind of 'bounty' system going for you :)

Nikolaos Dimopoulos

Monday, March 15th 2010, 18:28 UTC

Best of luck for your new projects!!

Floren Munteanu

Monday, March 15th 2010, 19:05 UTC

Good luck with your projects, Derick. Ilm glad we had a little time off at #confoo party.

Evert

Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 04:32 UTC

Hi Derick,

Not completely unrelated:

I'm working on a CalDAV implementation for PHP which deals with Dates, Timezones, Recurring events, all that goodness..

I just wanted to say the DateTime extension is the best thing since sliced bread. I dread that I have to support PHP 5.2 and can't use some of the additions made for PHP 5.3.

Bernie van't Hof

Thursday, March 18th 2010, 23:17 UTC

Hi Derrick,

Sounds like a bit of life-change happening.

I'm curious how you juggle all the various projects - many for no obvious reward and still put dinner on the table.

Maybe a blog to share your thoughts on community software / licensing / workload sharing / contributions / donations etc.

For example it seems you are the only one doing work on xdebug, but then you personally hold the copyright, so I'm a bit confused as this would seem to restrict others' willingness to help?

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