The slides from my talk at php|tek are now online - Linux-Fu for PHP Developers. Thanks to everyone who attended and left feed back for me on joind.in. Feel free to leave a comment if you were there or if you have any questions about the slides!*
* Unless the question is "why didn't you include X?" in which case the answer is that an hour-long slot was nothing like enough :)
Hey Lorna, loved your talk! Helped me consider more about making my own service and what kind of general direction/considerations I should take! No doubt I’ll be hassling Sam about his Kohana REST plugin at a future pub standards :) Thanks again!
I am receiving e-mail notifications, but it seems my original longer comment (about scheduling and the tag used for the conference) wasn’t approved – don’t know why?!
Hey, nothing wrong with #phpday10 (we didn’t choose #phpday since we’d like a differentiation between the years), only we didn’t think about that… next year will be phpday11 :-P
Why don’t you come this year? It’ll be near the sea! Plus we have an interesting schedule I think: http://joind.i [...]
Thank you very much for your explanation of the Late Static Binding in a human language. I am quite a beginner with OO PHP and this helped me understand this new feature.
Also, I must agree with Ted on one hand that the ‘self’ keyword gives better context as to what you are referring, thoug [...]
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Gabriel: Yes I’m enjoying mine but I gave up with dailyshoot – it was too technical in places and the posting times really didn’t work with my schedule so I bailed. Still intending to take lots of photos though!
Rowan: Thanks for the comment, I’m glad the talk and this post were useful. I totally agree on the horrible services front, personally I am hoping that as the field becomes more established, the standards become more accepted.
Cesare: Thanks for your kind words, I’ve heard good things about phpday although I haven’t been there myself; sounds like another great event with another horrible hashtag! What’s wrong with #phpday or #phpday10?