Fabien Potencier

A quick tip on iterators.

You should learn how to take advantages of PHP Iterators and Streams.

How do you find files and directories with PHP? Do you use Iterators? If not, you probably should... or keep reading for a better and simpler way.

The one where I talk about the new and shiny Symfony 2 CSS Selector Component, a tool that converts CSS selectors to XPath expressions.

This has been an amazing week for me, Symfony, and the whole Symfony community. With more than 350 attendees coming from more than 30 countries, the Symfony Live conference was a blast.

My first exposure to YAML was in 2001, back in the days when I was mainly working with Perl. When I started to use PHP at the end of 2004, one of the first thing that bothered me immediately was the poor support for YAML.

This year, I traveled in 7 countries for PHP conferences, giving a total of 12 talks. It has been a very exiting year of conferences for me.

Some weeks ago during the Zend Conference, I quietly released Pirum, a simple PEAR channel server manager. As some people talk about it on "social networks", I thought I should write an official announcement on my blog to explain where I come from.

How I compiled PHP 5.3 on my Snow Leopard laptop.

This was my first Zend Conference, and I must say I had a great time there. The organization was top notch, there were plenty of good sessions, and the unconference topics proved to be very interesting.