My slides from the Bulgaria PHP Conference on the topic of "Business Logic Security" are now available for download here: https://ilia.ws/files/phpbulgaria_business_logic_security.pdf

My slides from the FrontEdge user group talk on Browser Performance are available here. Thanks to everyone who attended and I especially enjoyed the many engaging questions ;-)

My slides from DPC 2015 on "Deep Dive into Browser Performance" are now available for download here.

A few days ago, on June 8th to be precise PHP had celebrated it’s 20th birthday! Wow! Ben Ramsey had written a blog post to talk about his history with PHP to commemorate the event and invited others to do the same. I didn’t get a chance to respond to the call at the time since between work and International PHP Conference in Berlin my days were all but gone, but in the spirit of “better later then never” here I go ;-) My first encounter with PHP was back in summer of 1998, at the time I was working on a bunch of websites that were just starting to be dynamic and needed something more advanced than static HTML. My first dive into development for the web was actually with Perl and subsequently mod_perl (shudder) and while Perl is a fine language for some people it just didn’t settle with me. I was complaining endlessly about it and that fact that combination of every 2 non alphanumeric characters did something was driving me nuts. Fortunately, the owner of the ISP I was using at the time got tired o...

My slides from IPC 2015 on "Profiling with XHProf" are now available for download here.