Finding Ada
Several months ago I signed a pledge that I would publish a blog post today about a woman in technology whom I admire. Well, when writing this post yesterday, I came to the conclusion that it's very hard for me to pick just one specific woman to talk about. So I am talking about more than one, and they're all rockstars—even the ones that I am not mentioning, you know who you are.
In the PHP community there are quite a few ladies that are actively involved. On the C-side of things (not pun intended) there's Sara Golemon and Elizabeth Smith . Sara works at Yahoo! doing search engine things, and is the master of writing interesting, but dangerous extensions to PHP. She's also the author of the only dedicated book on PHP's internals . Elizabeth ( in her own words ) "enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP" and is generally known as the person who among other things, fixes things on Windows, maintains the PHP-GTK bindings. She also occasionally fixes my code .
With Sara and Elizabeth we also end up at phpwomen . Together with Ligaya Turmelle , Elizabeth Naramore , Kathy Reid and Lorna Mitchell they run this organization to "provide a network of support and mentorship to women, help women become more involved with PHP, increase our numbers at conferences as speakers and attendees, and provide a “female friendly” atmosphere." With their effort, I am sure we'll see more involvement in the PHP community from the other currently unknown female PHP types adding to the diversity of our community.
Life Line
@Edent With your ActivityPub implementation, have you figured out how to allow quote posts for your bot posts yet?
📷 Brown Cap in the Grass
🚩 Herikhuizerweg, Rheden, Nederland
After my PHP 8.5 in Leeds last night, it's now time to head to Rotterdam to give the same talk there tonight!
It's cold out here, but atleast the snow is now gone.
📷 Avenue Gardens
🚩 Princess Road, London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
📷 Leafy Entrance
🚩 East Heath Road, London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
📷 From Green to Yellow.
🚩 St John's Wood Road, City of Westminster, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
The Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library is well worth a visit!
We went last Sunday and it still runs to January.
📷 Mirror
🚩 The Terrace, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
📷 Green, Red, Orange, and Yellow
🚩 Mortlake High Street, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
📷 Leaf
🚩 Lonsdale Road, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom
#AutumnColours #FallColours #Photography
I walked 10.6km in 1h47m32s
Merged pull request #1048
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It's PHP 8.5 release week !
I'm giving two talks on what's new in it, first on Wednesday evening in Leeds: https://www.meetup.com/leedsphp/events/311677834/
And then on Thursday evening in Rotterdam: https://eventy.io/events/q8lmw0v4Will I see you there?
@robinince Loving the new series of the Infinite Monkey Cage so far! #bbc
I walked 1.7km in 18m51s
Updated a clothes shop and a restaurant; Deleted a dentist; Confirmed an estate_agent shop, a dentist, and 2 other objects
I walked 3.4km in 39m19s
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