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//I felt like I should take a break from finishing up my multi-part javascript series to rehash some points being made recently by Keith Casey and Chris Cornutt about making the most of your N-th conference (and in particular, ZendCon).
My first ever professional conference (ignoring BarCamps) was last year’s ZendCon. I showed up in Santa [...]
//This is a post to make sure anyone interested in development, design, or new media entrepreneurship shows up to MiniBarBCS this Friday starting at 5pm. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Varisco Building in Bryan, Texas (219 N. Main St., Bryan, TX 77803).
So far the proposed topics cover everything from [...]
//So I kinda had a thing going about blogging during ZendCon but lost it, so I might as well just do a single day wrap up.
So ZendCon turned out to be completely worth it, even if only for the chance to meet in person a lot of the core PHP community and then drink semi-copiously [...]
//Since it isn’t up on refreshbcs.org yet I’ll repost the announcement from the listserv:
Where: Murphy’s Law (upstairs) [Google Map]
When: October 1st 7PM (Happy Hour starting at 5)
Speaker: Michelle Greer
We’ve been quiet for a while but it’s time to get this show back on the road. We’ve got several months worth of great speakers lined up [...]
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Spoon is both a gentleman AND a scholar.
(And caseysoftware is awesome for the pic)
//Turned out to be a fairly exciting day. I woke up late wondering why my alarms didn’t go off, just barely got to lunch and regretted missing Jay Pipes‘ talk.
Sara Golemon gave an interesting introduction to PHP extension writing. I bow to her vastly superior C-fu.
I already discussed a few talks that I went to [...]
//Eli White gave a talk called “The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development”.
He compares software development methodologies to the old TV show Knight Rider, in that the main character, Michael Knight, was average and ordinary except for the fact that he had an applicable toolset for what he needed to do (KITT).
Eli talks about how [...]
//Elizabeth Smith discussed to a really interesting PECL extension, pecl_http. I can do request pooling!
She also discussed pdo_user that allows you to create PDO drivers in userland (PHP).
Good overview on PECL packages. It makes me sad that they have really cool extensions like the operator overload extension and I can use them because I have [...]
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