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New and old extensions

Sep 12

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else, PHP stuff | 4 Comments

I’ve been fairly busy lately writing a few new PHP extensions. Here is a short introduction of each one of them and what they can do:

1. tokyo_tyrant

This is an extension to connect to the Tokyo Tyrant key value store. It supports the normal key value API and the table API. The feature-set should match quite closely what Tokyo Tyrant client libraries expose. The first version of this extension has been released in PECL.

2. zbarcode

This is the latest extension under works: it wraps ImageMagick and ZBar libraries and provides an OO API for scanning barcodes from images. It is currently under heavy development but hopefully it will be in PECL later on.

3. dmtx

Another barcode extension. Reads and writes data matrices (2D barcode). The API would need some refactoring but it seems to be working fine as it is.

Hardware failure

Sep 12

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else | No Comments

Hi,

my blog has been down for about the last week now because of problems with the server hardware. I am trying to provision new hardware and restore the service back to normal as soon as possible. Currently things are running from a backup VPS so the site might be a bit slow from time to time.

phplondon conference 2008

Mar 2

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else, Imagick, PHP stuff | 5 Comments

To summarize it: I had fun :) My conference preparations started about two weeks before the conference. The PHPLondon fellows (Paul, Matt and Richard) asked me to do a small presentation about Imagick at the pre-conference social event. The presentation I assembled ended up being a little over two hours, give or take. The hardest part was to trim down from two hours to about 40 minutes (I didn’t want to bore the people with too many code examples). The slides are available at http://valokuva.org/talks if you need them for some reason.

My conference day was pretty hectic from the beginning to the end. I gave a few demos about the products that we represent and the moment I opened my mouth for the first time people started leaving the room. I hope that it had something to do with the “My Framework is better than yours?” talk starting at the same time ;)

I met quite a lot of new people at the conference and of course it was nice to see the familiar faces from other conferences and PHPLondon meetings. I was especially happy that I was able to answer the questions Nigel James had ;)

A huge thanks to the organizers for making this day possible!

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Imagick 2.0.1RC1 windows builds

Oct 18

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else | No Comments

I updated the dynamic Windows builds.

The latest version is 2.0.1RC1 (18.10.2007) and it is the last version I can currently provide.

Experimental Imagick/Windows builds updated

Oct 11

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else, PHP stuff | 13 Comments

I updated the experimental Windows builds. You can find the new Q8 and Q16 versions in here

This build should fix the “E:” issue.

After eZ Awards 2007 and PHP Vikinger

Jun 13

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else, PHP stuff | 1 Comment

I came back from Skien, Norway a few days ago. I really enjoyed the awards and especially the PHP Vikinger after party. I met new people, made new friends and won a prize :)

I’ve been writing a presentation about Imagick for a few days. I timed it today and it was about 50 minutes without questions. I’m hoping to make it a one and a half hour presentation which I can then supply to a few conferences.

after a while..

May 11

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else | 2 Comments

Finally got my blog setup after a server crash. A lot has happened since I last blogged. Like the MagickWand extension I was writing can now be found in pecl with a name Imagick.

I got an invitation to eZ Awards in Norway and the unconference which is held right after it. I think this meeting gives faces to people I’ve known for years in IRC :)