Tag Archives: MySQL

Speaking at DPC11

The title says it all: I’ll be speaking at DPC11. For those of you who don’t know what this means: it’s the 2011 edition of the Dutch PHP Conference. DPC11 is the leading European PHP conference and attracks a big crowd and an awesome speaker lineup. Last year I spoke at the event as well …

February 20, 2011 – 11:53 am | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Learning from your mistakes: mixed character sets in MySQL

Character sets are a big thing these days and luckily we’re slowly evolving to a world where UTF-8 rules. In the meanwhile we’re stuck in a transitional phase where the ISO-8859-1 encoding is still used. MySQL followed this trend and introduced character set support in version 4.1. Importing data from older versions is easy and …

December 6, 2009 – 9:22 pm | By Thijs | Posted in MySQL, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

PHP UK Conference 2009 review

It’s been a while since I last attended an international conference. In fact, my last one was the unforgetable 2008 Dutch PHP Conference. It was also my first time at the London conference. It actually turned out to be a great one, hence this review.

March 3, 2009 – 12:39 am | By Thijs | Posted in PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Hello world!

Hello world! This seems like an “out of the box” post and you might be wondering where the “lorem ipsum” is. But no, this is my official hello to the world because my blog is online again and in this time I’ll do it in English for the logical purpose of reaching more people.

January 10, 2009 – 3:08 pm | By admin | Posted in General | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)