~kanarip

Apparently people follow this tutorial to install PHP 5.2.x on their Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. It uses the repositories from our dear Remi Collet, and at first I didn't understand why anyone would do that, install an unsupported version of PHP on a platform you specifically chose to get support for. I was under the impression Red Hat themselves would have a decent offer in the Application Stack channel, but what I found out is that a subscription to the Red Hat Application Stack v2 would cost around $1.999 a year (source). Go figure ;-)

You've probably read this once or twice already, but tomorrow starts the Red Hat Developer Conference 2009. I was interested as soon as I saw the agenda. So I'm there (Are you? Why not?)

I hear rumors about a lab being available, and I hear about a coders competition. I wasn't going to participate in the competition, but now that I'm thinking about it... why not participate and get my ass kicked? Might be a very intense learning experience... hmmm...

Either way, there's also a Fedora track... I think I know where I'm gonna be. Can I show my face on the next FUDCon having to admit I was getting my ass kicked in a coders contest, skipping the Fedora track at a Red Hat Developers Conference? I don't think so ;-)

I woke up in Utrecht, synced my e-mail, tripled my TODO list, downloaded everything I needed to do a lot of work on a lot of items on that TODO list, left for AMS, and arrived in PRG, transferring to BRQ for the Red Hat Developer Conference 2009.

I get to the gate just in time to realize they've changed it, and after like the shortest ride on the bus from the gate to the plane there's this dot on my camera... A plane propelled by... propellers... Nothing new of course, but this was the smallest commercial airplane I have ever been on. It had like... 15-20 seats or so. Anyway...

I get to Brno and all I remember is the name of the hotel I'm supposed to check in to. Hotel Imos; it's the same hotel as last year. Well... it is in the same location, but let me tell you... this is not the same hotel anymore...

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They've rebuilt the entire place, or so it seems, and right now it's actually a very nice place.

Beer, FWIW (and that's a lot), costs ~1 euro per 0.5 liters. /me going back to the bar now that battery has re-charged.