What if which ever way you turn, you think are seeing a postcard? What if you could take the afternoon off to go skiing? What if you would one day come to assume that every city has a beautiful lake at the center and mountains surrounding? What if every movie would always be shown in the original version without having to go to that single cinema in town that did? Speaking of languages, what if you could get by with whatever language you speak, or just practice one of many languages without having to go an a trip? What if going for a snack after one of the monthly user group meetings, feels more like a speakers dinner at a conference? Yes, then you must be working in Zurich, the up and coming PHP capital of the world! :)

In good old Moerfelden for this years edition of the International PHP Conference, after having skipped last years event. As always I am looking forward to meeting a lot of old friends and getting to know a few new faces from the PHP world.

One thing I do not get. So there are bunch of guys promising the world. As we all know being good at promising the world is a sure way to rake in tons of cash on the stock market. Not only because there are enough stupid rich guys, but also because increasingly poor or lets say middle class people are stupid enough to believe that they know how the system works, or that their local bank representative actually cares about them. At any rate with the housing market plummeting, this happy bubble has burst.

So I do not quite get it. Where is the technical difference between the Enterprise and the Community Server of MySQL now that MySQL AB has effectively back paddled from their commitment made with the initial split? If the Community Server now does not get new shiny features and be stable like the Enterprise Server, where is the difference? Jeremy is asking the same question. Where is the new test bed for community contributions?

Derick recently released Xdebug 2, you know that thing that makes your coding life sooooo much easier. That thing which took hours and hours to develop. Here it is in all its shiny stable glory. So what did the author ask in return for releasing this goody as open source, already in its second incarnation? He asked for a little post card send to Norway. Thats it! Thats all he asked in return.