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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
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Back from the PHP Conference
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    Yeah, I guess I was the one with the shortest way home, today. After
    bringing Lukas, Marcus, Hartmut and Aaron to the airport, it took me about
    15 minutes to get home (because of some after-work traffic on the
    highway). ;)

Yeah, I guess I was the one with the shortest way home, today. After bringing
Lukas, Marcus, Hartmut and Aaron to the airport, it took me about 15 minutes
to get home (because of some after-work traffic on the highway). ;)

It was a pretty successful conference, although I attended the regular
conference just today completly and the rest of the time just the inofficial
part. From part of the sessions it was quite interessting today. I watched:

- Christian on "XML on Speed - how to write fast and scalable PHP/XML code"
- Andrey with a rant on "Writing parallel applications with PHP"
- Marcus talking about "Functional Programming with SPL Iterators"

and

- Derick with "Enterprise PHP Bananas"

Especially the last talk was pretty neat, since I always wanted to use SRM and
it seems like it starts getting usable by now. This project is really worth
watching it, if one would ask me. Especially now, that Derick is really using
and therefore has a special interesst in the development.

Beside that "official" part of the conference the after-work part was pretty
nice, as usual (and stated a lot before). Talking to the community raised a
lot of interessting ideas and woke up some which were already called dead in
some people's eyes.

The latter one has been the way with the PEAR Core QA Team, which has been
created this year in late spring, but did not really get active lately. In
Frankfurt we had 5 of 6 members available and hold some very nice discussions
in a kind of "unoffical" QA meeting. A summary of what we brainstormed and
discussed can be found in our temporary wiki.

Also resulting from this little meeting are some sub projects to be
implemented. First of all, we want to automate checking for BC breaks on
PEARWeb. This means in detail, that during upload of a new release by a
maintainer the BC of his sources is checked. In praxis I'm imagening, that one
could simply extract both packages and preg_match() all function prototypes
out of the sources. Afterwards one compares declaration by declaration both
versions. I don't know yet, if that's a bit too RAM intensive (for large
projects like MDB2), but that will appear during testing. I'm currently
working on that stuff...

Beside all those productive stuff, party was one of the main goals in the
evenings, as usual. Since we discovered the Sauna this year in Frankfurt
(which is pretty nice, although a pool is missing a little bit) it reminded me
a little of Karlsruhe in June.

All in all I pretty much enjoyed the conference and I'm looking forward to the
next one in Amsterdam in May 2005. Hopefully I'll be there again to have some
sessions.


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