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I’ll hold a talk about Migration concepts for Enterprise PHP applications at the Dynamic Languages World Europe 2008 conference at the end of may in Karlsruhe, Germany.

I almost forgot to tell everyone that phpMyFAQ was mentioned in a one page article in the German Linux Magazin. The article was quite good.

Today, 10 years ago, Netscape (R.I.P.) launched the website mozilla.org. Happy birthday!

“If you can’t beat them, buy them.” – I think a merger of Microsoft and Yahoo! won’t work. But hey, let Microsoft burn their dollars.

Today I passed the Zend Certification exam.

Yesterday, an idiot stole my almost eleven years old ICQ account. So I decided to kick ICQ from my harddisk.

I almost forgot that I started this blog four years ago in january 2004 … wow, what a long time!

I’ll start to update some parts of the phpmyfaq.de website the next weeks. I’ll change the CSS to the new phpMyFAQ 2.5 layout created by Charles A. Landemaine and I’ll move the phpBB2 to phpBB3. Our own FAQ, currently based on phpMyFAQ 1.6 will be updated to 2.0 as well.

Well, things slowed down the last months with phpMyFAQ and I’ll try to push it more after the holidays. I’ll try to release a 2.0.5 release this year but I cannot guarantee that I’ll have enough time the next 2 weeks. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2008. And, rest in peace, PHP 4!

Tomorrow I’ll travel to Frankfurt-Mörfelden for visiting the International PHP Conference 2007. I’ll do a talk about Microsoft Office automatisation with PHP. We implemented something similiar at a big costumer at work. See you there!

Here are some impressions from my trip from San Francsisco down to San Diego.

Pacific Highway No. 1 near Big Sur

Hearst Castle

Orcas at Sea World

San Diego from Coronado Island

Tomorrow I’ll leave the United States and I’ll be back in Germany on sunday.

Today I’ll leave San Francisco because the Zend Conference ended yesterday. I’ll drive down to San Diego on the Highway Nr. 1. That’s me at Alcatraz:

Today, Ilia, Sebastian and myself visited Alcatraz, also called The Rock. It was really amazing and we had quite good weather. I took over 100 pictures of the island, the skyline of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge (again). I’ll post some pictures as soon as possible.

Yesterday the Zend Conference started with the tutorial day. I visited one tutorial for some hours and talked with many people of the PHP community. In the evening, Marcus, Derick, Sebastian, Ilia and myself drove to the Vista Point to take some pictures of the Golden Gate bridge again. The bridge was partly in fog and I could take some awesome pictures of it. I’ll post one the next days. Today I’ll do my talk about IBM DB2 and PHP 5.2.

Yesterday, Marcus, Sebastian, Christian and myself visited the Golden Gate Bridge and Muir Woods. Due to a flight show here in the San Francisco Bay we couldn’t take so much pictures of the bridge we wanted to.

Today I visited San Francisco. Here are some impressions.

Golden Gate Bridge:

Alcatraz:

Lombard Street:

Thorsten in a Cable Car:

This morning I left Munich and flew with a terrible stopover in London Heathrow to San Francisco. At the International San Francisco Airport I saw one of the brand new Airbus A380 planes. I was sitting in a Boeing 747-400 but it looked really smaller than the A380. It’s also really hard to enter the United States. They took two fingerprints and a picture of me – I felt like a criminal. The weather is quite good but it’s quite cold.