I meant to post this earlier, but starting today I am on a pretty lengthy tour of the USA. First stop is San Francisco, but only for this weekend. On Monday I will move to San Jose to join up the MySQL User Conference for 3 days. Then its back to San Francisco until May 1st to chat with the fine folks at the local Optaros office. At this point I will fly to Austin, location of yet another Optaros office. Then on the evening of May 4th I will fly to Tampa to spend a few quality days at my parents house in Palmetto. On May 14th its time to visit the main Optaros HQ in Boston. But after only 2 days I am already flying to Chicago to php|tek. On May 18th I am flying back to Zurich. However immediately on arrival on the 19th I am hoping back in a plane to Berlin to celebrate the wedding of a good friend. So its not until the evening of the 20th that I will really be back in Zurich.

So a few things happened in the last few weeks or will be happening that I find worth sharing. First up Pagenello, the biggest Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Europe, was blast. Plenty of sun while playing 10 beach Frisbee matches in 4 days with some quality time chilling in Rimini before and after the tournament.

I am search for the ultimate consultant office on the go setup. Basically I need a mobile dual monitoring solution that is luggable, as I keep moving from one client location to another. My current research did not produce any convincing luggable monitors. I stumbled over ScreenRecycler thanks to my co-worker Hugo, who loves geek toys just as muchas I do. Now this got me thinking of the following setup:

I dream of having one phone provider across the world. With reasonable prices for incoming and outgoing calls. With an affordable data plan across the world. Well the data stuff seems quite out of reach today (actually there was a provider in Italy that offered a 1GB UMTS data plan across Europe for 30 Euros a month). However it seems that more and more prepaid providers are popping up that provide much more affordable roaming. Since I moved to Switzerland and starting on a travel intensive job I find myself moving between Switzerland, Germany, Romania and the USA a fair bit. Additionally since I play a fair amount of international Frisbee tournaments I also end up going to most other EU countries and hopefully to Brazil for the beach ultimate world championships next December.

For those of you following my blog, you should remember that I promised an "update" regarding best practices with opcode caches in PHP. I went ahead and poked some people at Zend and phparch if they would not like to organize a webcast on this topic. Then I leaned back and waited until they finalized a date for a webcast. As you probably guessed by now .. there is a date set, which is March 16th. Only 4 more days so register quickly if you want to attend.