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Today at 12pm I passed my Zend Certified Engineer exam.
Cheers for all the 'good luck' messages and encouragements.
I should be able to put a logo up in the next 24-48 hours linking to my Zend Yellow Pages profile.
Dennis Interactive guys: I owe you a box of doughnuts, as per tradition 
Ian: You owe me and Natalie dinner I believe 
Rackspace UK: Thanks for all the support.
Well, I have finally booked my Zend Certification exam and MySQL DBA exams. I will be taking the ZCE on the 4th July and CMDBA I and II on the 11th July.
Wish me luck
I have created an Ubuntu Hardy PPA (Personal Package Archive) which contains all my PHP packages (memcached, APC and phpunit). It can be found at:
https://launchpad.net/~andrew-linuxjedi/+archive
This means you can add it to your APT sources and it will automatically update when a new package is available. It also automatically builds my packages for i386 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu. I will remove my copies from my download area very soon in preference of this.
Its been over a week since PHP London '08 and I have been thinking about which angle to write a blog post about it. I have also been incredibly busy since then so haven't had a chance to write much in my blog.
So, it was a fantastic day, and I met some great people. Did I learn anything? Yes. Don't trust our hosting company with anything, we had a server failure whilst I was in Stefan Esser's talk which I am not happy about. Apart from that I don't think there was much to learn from the main stream for the target audience for the conference. The smaller room had some more advanced topics which were of more interest to me.
Ivo's talk at the start of the day was brilliant, certainly kept the audiance engaged. Project Zero was interesting but I can't see it being used by our company. PHP testing (or lack of) was also pretty interesting to me, something I would help with if I had some spare time. Derick Rethans was a great choice to round up the day.
In summary I am cetainly looking forward to next year's conference.
In Ubuntu Hardy the default PHPUnit in the repository is 3.0.6. So have created a package in my download area to upgrade this to 3.2.15. This should install just as well on Ubuntu Gutsy as it does on Hardy and should work on all processor types.
You can download my package here.
