Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:25 UTC
See below for the slides from my Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services talk given at the 2008 Zend PHP Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA.
As we move toward “Web 3.0,” the Web is slowly transforming into a platform upon which massively distributed applications run. Rich clients turn personal computers into thin clients, not storing or processing any data locally but, rather, connecting to a web service where the data resides. These services may target intranets, extranets, or the global Web community, but to work they need a common language. One such language is the Atom Publishing Protocol.
Since its inception as a draft recommendation in 2003, the Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) has been used as an alternative to Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds on blogs throughout the blogosphere. Most have understood Atom as just another feed format, but the publication of the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023) opens the door for far more uses of the Atom format as both a means for distribution of data, as well as publication.
Ben Ramsey will introduce the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol, explaining in depth how these can form the foundation of any web service for publication and distribution of data in any environment, from the enterprise right down to the small business level. Ramsey will also discuss RESTful design principles as they relate to the Atom Publishing Protocol.
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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:06 UTC
As I write this post, I’m sitting at about 38,000 ft on a Boeing 757-200, flying high above the now tropical storm Ike. My destination is Santa Clara, CA and the Zend PHP Conference and Expo.
This year, I’m giving a talk at the main conference, as well as moderating a discussion at the ZendCon Unconference, coinciding with the main conference. While it’s a shame that Zend does not open up the Uncon—perhaps even for a small fee—to the general public (you must be a registered ZendCon attendee to attend the Uncon), it is good that they’re opening up the space for anyone attending the conference to share ideas through presentation and discussion in an open forum. The Uncon is the community space and the place to be if you want to engage the PHP Community while at ZendCon.
The “round-table” discussion I’m moderating at the Uncon is titled—with tongue firmly planted in cheek—“PHP Developers’ Groups: Cat Herding 101.” User group leaders and volunteers will likely agree with me that organizing meetings often feels like herding cats. This discussion is primarily for user group leaders and volunteers, but it’s not exclusive. It’s open to everyone who would like to listen, learn, and participate in discussion about planning for user group meetings and events, and how to reach out and communicate with your user group members and the local developer community in your area. If you’ve ever had an interest in starting a user group, by all means, please be sure to attend! The user group discussion will take place on Wednesday, September 17th at 5:15pm in the Uncon space.
At the conference proper, I’ll be giving my “Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services” presentation. This is the second time I will have given this talk, and it has been greatly improved since I gave it at DC PHP earlier this year. The previous incarnation of this talk was geared more towards developers, but this time, I think the presentation will be of interest to both programmers and managers alike, since I not only describe in technical detail how Atom works, but I also give high-level information explaining how Atom Web Services may be beneficial to your business or organization. I make the case for why Atom is important for any application that distributes or publishes content.
As for the remainder of the day today, I’ll be hanging out in sunny California, possibly taking a day trip into San Francisco to walk around and sight-see.
Hope to see you at the conference!
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Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:55 UTC
After a long hiatus and a very quiet mailing list and forum, I am delighted to announce that the main communication channel for PHP Groups is moving to the official PHP project at php.net!
You may recall PHP Groups being created over a year ago for the purpose of networking together the leaders and organizers of PHP user groups around the world. I’ve been very bad about keeping things moving on this front, but I want to pick things back up and get us talking again. I also want to get us back on track for the mission of this group:
PHP Groups networks PHP user groups into a tighter community, provides a means to share information and resources among its community members, and aids in the formation of new PHP user groups.
In the near future, we’ll have more discussion about what we can do to progress toward fulfilling this mission.
In the meantime, if you help with the organization of your local PHP user group in any way, feel free to join the ug-admins mailing list or subscribe to the ug.admin news group at php.net:
ug-admins-subscribe [ at ] lists.php.net
news://news.php.net/ug.admins
Also, look to this list for announcements about meet-ups of user group leaders and organizers at upcoming conferences!
And, as always, I’m lurking in #phpgroups on Freenode IRC, so feel free to join me, if you like.
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