My slides from PHP True North talk on Memcached extension are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/tnphp_memcached.pdf

My slides from Zendcon talking about full-stack Bottleneck Analysis are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/zendcon2012_bottlenecks.pdf

My slides introducing the PHP Excel extension from the talk at ZendUncon are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/zenduncon_phpexcel.pdf

My slides introducing PHP 5.4.8 from the talk at ZendCon are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/zendcon2012_php54.pdf

A new version of the php-excel extension, v0.9.7 was released and is now available for download at: https://github.com/downloads/iliaal/php_excel/php-excel-0.9.7.tar.bz2 This new version allow for compilation against latest version of LibXL 3.3.1 and provides wrappers for new functions available in LibXL 3.2.4+, which include the following: added ExcelSheet::getTopLeftView() and ExcelSheet::setTopLeftView() methods for getting/setting a view position in the sheet added ExcelSheet::addrToRowCol() and ExcelSheet::rowColToAddr() methods for translating Excel cell position to row/column definitions Additionally the extension's "info" section was modified to show the version of LibXL library the extension was compiled against.