As promised here are the two other logs from the recent chat I witnessed. The first log focuses on setting the right MaxClient config option in Apache, which will hopefully clarify things for Evert. The second discusses properly setting HTTP headers (and dyslexic web servers). Also note the two links I mentioned in the second log about performance optimizations. Furthermore if you have not checked it out yet, have a look at the YSlow! extension (to the Firebug extension). Again I left the logs in their raw original way. Hope they are useful for you all.

I am one of the 10 jury members for the first international Hackontest. Basically this is a 24 hour open source coding competition that takes place on September 24/25 here in Zurich. However in order to make it to the competition a first hurdle is to get "past" the jury, which includes Jeremy Alison and Bruce Perens, who get to select the top 3 most promising teams on August 1st. So if you think you got what it takes, head on over to the Hackontest site and register your team! All my favorite OSS projects (PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL) have not registered teams yet.

A while ago someone join #php.pecl with some XDebug issues while using Doctrine. What ensued were a series of (very helpful) rants on the do's and don'ts in regards to large libraries, HTTP headers and maxclients settings in Apache. I have asked Rasmus permission to keep a log of the discussion and post them in my blog. In this first post I will provide a link and some commentary on Rasmus's points regarding Doctrine (note I left independent chatter in the log in order to not have any chance of me filtering the content, but there is very little of that so I hope the discussion is still easy enough to follow).

Back in 2005 (wow already that long ago?), we started talking to some key PHP application projects to get them to get more involved in the QA processes around release candidates (RC's for short). This was a list of projects maintained on the old PHP todo wiki. Recently Wez finished setting up a proper mailinglist for the primary qa testers as a replacement to the wiki pages. This list is setup to allow posting only by release managers (RM's for short). All replies are send to the php-qa mailinglist.

As I was sitting for hours on the bus somewhere between Maceio and Receife on my trip to Brazil, waiting for the the bus to reach the other side of the road blockade that was setup in protest by local sugar cane farmers, a thought began to materialize in my head: We really should have an advocacy group around PHP! The first code name was found in that very first traint of thought: emPHPower!