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Here we go again, two days in a row

It is time again. After '97 (following the release of Secret Samadhi) and 2006 (following the release of Songs for Black Mountain), the two concerts Live is giving in Paradiso will be the third and fourth I attend in the mother of all pop-venues in the Netherlands by Live. I am sooooo much looking forward to it.

posted on June 28, 2008 - 1 comment(s) - tags: live, paradiso, music

The new ICANN TLD proposal

The organization managing all Top Level Domains, ICANN, has today announced the approval of a new proposal, which will allow basically anyone to get their own Top Level Domain. I may be conservative, longing for the good old days of the Internet, but I don't like this.

posted on June 26, 2008 - 11 comment(s) - tags: internet, tld, icann

Dutch PHP conference 2008

Last year, back then I was not yet employed by Ibuildings, I spoke highly of the Dutch PHP Conference. It was an excellent event, with enough variation in speakers and topics. This friday and saturday, this year's installment of the same conference is taking place.

posted on June 10, 2008 - 11 comment(s) - tags: event, conference, php, dpc, symfony

Digitizing music: Terratec PhonoPreAmp iVinyl

Having been a DJ in the past, I have quite an extensive vinyl collection in the attic. A lot of the music I have there I don't have in any other media, either because I didn't want to buy the music twice or simply because the music isn't available outside of vinyl. It's a shame having so much good music and not being able to do anything with it. Until now...

posted on June 5, 2008 - 5 comment(s) - tags: music, vinyl, terratec

More namespace gotchas

Earlier on I had a problem with namespaces for getting XML attributes. When I finally got that sorted, I ran into an even weirder problem when fetching elements using xpath. Again, it was just a tiny little detail.

posted on June 3, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: xml, namespace, simplexml, xpath, php

My name is in print again

No, I still have not written a book (though there are actually plans for that ) but my name can again be seen in print. After my first official print mention as technical reviewer of Packt's phpBB book, I am now happy to announce I am named and even quoted in Michael Kimsal's new PHP Job Hunter's Handbook.