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
TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
I hiked 9.8km in 3h40m47s
Updated a restaurant
Updated a vacant business
I walked 7.1km in 1h16m56s
I walked 3.9km in 45m56s
I walked 1.1km in 10m47s
I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #London #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography
No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
#london #eclipse2026 #eclipse #photography
I walked 0.9km in 9m28s
I walked 1.2km in 19m05s
Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
I walked 4.7km in 48m18s
I walked 3.0km in 1h10m24s
Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
I walked 5.5km in 55m06s
@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
Updated a crossing
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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I walked 9.1km in 1h34m28s
Updated a gate
Updated a bakery shop
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