Paul M. Jones

PHP objects with circular references do not release their memory during garbage collection, or even when you call unset() on the parent object. Read on to find out why, and how to work around it. Maybe a PHP internals developer would care to modify how unset() works?

This is waaay late, but better than never. ;-)
I didn’t get to attend too many talks this time around, mostly because I spent my time practicing and editing my presentations the-day-of. I did get to all three of the talks from Jeff Moore (valuable stuff), as well Ed Finkler’s PhpSecInfo presentation (it looks like [...]

As my family and some of my friends are aware, I have accepted an invitation from Chris Shiflett to work as “Senior Developer” at OmniTI. I’ll be starting there next week. Woohoo!

That’s not me, it’s Derek Sivers of CDBaby (hat tip to Greg Beaver).
Jeff Moore has related and insightful comments.
Update: More wisdom and analysis from Pervasive Code regarding “immature developer attitudes”.

You can see the slides for my benchmarking talk here:
benchmarking-2007.pdf

Here are the slides for my talk on how to organize your PHP projects:
organize-php-project-2007.pdf

I’m giving two talks at php|works this year, and it turns out that they complement each other quite nicely. In a way, they are both about organization and architecture. Read on for more, especially the new “benchmarking for fun and profit” talk.