Archive for May, 2005
Fri, 13 May 2005 12:47 UTC
FYI, the materials for the 2005 International PHP Conference Spring Edition are being posted to the conference materials page as they become available (in other words: when the speakers finally get around to e-mailing them to S&S).
If you’re a speaker and you haven’t done so, send in your slides. If you’re an attendee, this is a great one-stop place to find all the slides you’re looking for—a great alternative to sifting through everyone’s blogs to find the slides. 
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Wed, 11 May 2005 12:54 UTC
For those of you who have been waiting for the slides for my IPC talks, I have posted them on my talks page. There, you will find PDFs for my frameworks, PHP security, and PHP-GTK talks. Enjoy.
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Mon, 9 May 2005 17:13 UTC
Aside from the learning and networking aspects of conferences, another great by-product of attending a conference is the sharing of ideas. I came away from the International PHP Conference reinvigorated with new ideas and techniques and applications I want to try out. Also, I came away with a great definition for the ever-intangible “enterprise framework.”
The phrase “enterprise framework” eludes defining at times and starts holy wars. However, Joseph Kolin presented me with a definition: an enterprise framework allows the end-user to drop in only the business logic to make it work; they do not need to add anymore programming to the framework. The folks over at Achievo ATK agree with this definition.
What do you think? Is this the proper definition of an “enterprise framework?”
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Sat, 7 May 2005 10:04 UTC
As I mentioned earlier, I was unable to find any time to blog during the week of the International PHP Conference in Amsterdam. This was due to several factors including, but not limited to, the lack of high-speed Internet connectivity and the sheer fact that I was largely unprepared for my talks. Sure, I had my outlines and slides, but I didn’t quite have all the examples and screenshots on the slides. This required much of my time during the early part of the trip, and so my brain didn’t want to think in order to attempt any sort of formulation of thoughts about the conference or the trip in general.
But now I am on the airplane, high in the sky over the Atlantic and watching (only in a cursory sense, since I’m not actually listening) the Marvel movie Elektra. Thus, I have plenty of time to think about the conference and to reflect on all the meetings and introductions that occurred during the week.
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Fri, 6 May 2005 1:21 UTC
Well, I didn’t blog during the conference at all, which is a great shame. I had hoped that I would be more active with the official conference blog, as well, but I didn’t end up posting anything to this. Of course, a great hinderance to posting was the great lack of Internet connectivity here. We can only connect to the Internet from the hotel lobby, and then we must pay for specified lengths of time. The conference center wasn’t much better, though Toby set up a router, but I wasn’t able to sit down long enough during the breaks to formulate any coherent thoughts to post.
So, here I am now, and it’s 1:20 AM Amsterdam time, and I’m tired. I’ve just returned from dinner and drinks with Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, and Christian Wenz. We’ve had a great night, it’s been a great week, and now it’s time for me to head back home. I’m a bit saddened that I’ve met all these great people, formed some great friendships, and now I have to leave and wait until the next conference to hang out with them again. This gives me something to look forward to.
At any rate, my purchased time is up, and I must go to bed. I’ll write up some thoughts on the conference during the plane trip home and post here.
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Sun, 1 May 2005 19:46 UTC
8:10am CET (Central European Time) marked the end of my neverending 9-hour flight from Atlanta to Amsterdam. Unfortunately for me, this was also 2:10am EDT, the time my body thought it was.
Once I made it to the hotel, I tried to check in, but was unable to do so since check-in did not officially begin until 12:30pm. To make a long story short, I met Andrei Zmievski and John Coggeshall, who happened to walk right in an get a room. So, Andrei and I got our rooms, and after a shower and a brief rest, I met Andrei, John, and Stan, a friend of Andrei’s who lives near Amsterdam and acted as our guide through the town.
We walked all over the town (or so it felt to me), ate lunch, had a beer, and sat down at a cafe. I was amazed at the quaintness of the town but also at how terribly dirty it is! I didn’t expect so much trash and cigarette butts littering the ground. It was everywhere, and it was floating in the canals. The city could’ve been much more beautiful. However, I am aware that Queen’s Day was held yesterday, and it seems the city is always this dirty or worse immediately following the festivities, so on any other day of the year, the city would be clean.
I returned back to my room as late afternoon drew on; I was beat-indeed, I’d only had a few hours of sleep - if that many—on the airplane. Not wishing to sleep immediately, I slipped down to the lobby where I sit now finishing up my talks and enjoying the (not free) WIFI that is not in our rooms.
Don’t get me wrong, though—I’m not a big complainer. This week promises to be a great conference with even greater post-session activities. I look forward to it. I’m just tired right now, so I supposed I’ll get something to eat and go to bed.
Good night.
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