Posts by Philip Tellis

One of the reasons that I like working at Yahoo!, and the primary reason I’ve been here six years, is the scale at which we operate. More on our Business Continuity Planning policies.

The WebTiming spec, proposed by Google to the W3C, is an important step forward in measuring a Web page’s round-trip time. Its implementations are supported by boomerang.

Our new tool, Boomerang, is currently in beta release. We’d love for you to check out the code, use it, fork it, patch it, and tell us how you like it.

This was an information-packed conference. The theme was clearly software quality and architecture, and is a good indication of where the PHP community wants to go.

Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia, isn’t your typical Web developer conference venue, yet that’s exactly where this year’s webDU conference was held.

I’m a geek and I’ve used a Linux-based operating system as my primary desktop for the last 10 years. So I was suprised when my browser became vulnerable to malicious websites.

Last weekend I was at FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) conference in Brussels, Belgium and it was a great experience. The thing that hit me as soon as I got there was the energy.

I spent most of last week at FOSS.IN/2009 in Bangalore, India. It is, with good reason, one of my favourite developer conferences, with a lot packed into five days.One of the best things about FOSS.IN are the workouts.

At the YUI conference last week, Mint.com’s Matt Snider spoke about the client-side storage utility that he wrote for YUI 2.8.0, that allows web developers to store far more data on the client side than is possible through the use of cookies.

WebDU happened last week, and it was a blast. Web developers from all over Australia, and from much of the world dropped in to Sydney to speak and learn about the latest web technologies and practices. I’m happy to have been part of it.

Montreal, Québec, set the stage for the seventh edition of PHP Québec, three day conference focused primarily on PHP, with a fair representation of other web related technologies. The conference ended with attendees competing to make elePHPants out of balloons.

While Tom and a bunch of other Yahoos are down in Portland for OSCON, I’m in Ottawa this week for Linux Symposium. We’re almost done with day two of the conference, and it’s been excellent so far. While most talks delve into the kernel, or system level features of linux, there’s also decent coverage of [...]