PHP 500
Two weeks ago, I was on a plane from Leeds, where I had given a "What's New in PHP 8.5" talk at the Leeds PHP user group, on the way to Amsterdam. Later that day, I would give a similar talk for the Rotterdam PHP user group, hosted by my friend Damien Seguy. My list of talks indicated that that would be my 500th talk I would ever give.
Damien and I have known each other for quite some time. When we met at the International PHP Conference in Munich earlier this year, we were reminiscing about this. I thought we had met at that same conference, but back in 2002.
Damien insisted that it was a year earlier, and he had a t-shirt to prove it. But then, if I would have been at that 2001 conference, I would likely have given at talk there too. But it wasn't in my list.
After digging around with the Wayback Machine, eventually I found evidence of this — the conference's website doesn't go back far enough either.
I could not really find the whole slide deck though — not even the Wayback machine had all PDF pages archived.
This did however mean that the talk that I was going to give in Rotterdam would be my 501st talk. I was reluctant to tell Damien, as he indicated that he would try to make a thing out of it.
So I did tell him, that no, my 500th talk was "last night in Leeds", and not tonight. Despite his grave disappointment, he still thought it be nice to at least mark the occasion — with a badly photocopied PHP $500 bank note.
It wasn't a fake image, as there are actually PHP $500 banknotes, as PHP is the Philippine Peso. He did promise to do better, and a week or so later, an envelope arrived with an actual PHP $500 note in it to celebrate. It's going to go up framed on my wall. For the first time I was actually paid in PHP!
Thanks Damien, and the PHP community to have listened to my 500^W 501 talks!
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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...
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Updated a restaurant
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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
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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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).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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