PHP UK Conference 2010 thoughts

Most disciplines are too vast or complex for one person to understand alone. Regardless of the chosen discipline, to make significant advancements demands reliance on the aggregate findings of peers. When Einstein published his theory of relativity, he used Isaac Newton's work as a base on which to build his own theories.

I digress ...

On Friday I went to the PHP UK 2010 conference in Islington, London with my colleague John Field. There were three tracks, so between us we were able to cover most talks of interest. The conference organisers have said they’ll post the slides of each talk, with sync’ed audio, online soon. I’ll link the slides for these talks as they become available.

The Schedule

From the schedule, the talks I attended were:

• RDBMS in the social networks age (comments)
• Database optimisation (comments)
• PHPillow & CouchDB & PHP (comments)
• ‘In search of…’ – integrating site search (comments)
• PHP code audits (comments)

I forgot to mention it on my feedback form but the WiFi was very good, considering there was an army of nerds hammering on it, it was fast enough and I never lost my connection (disclaimer: I was largely using it from my iPhone).

Friends don't let friends use singletonsSteve Yegge

For anyone thinking of going next year, be warned, everyone had an iPhone – I’m pretty sure they don’t let you into the conference if you don’t own one!

The talks prior to lunch were, time-wise, somewhat sabotaged by the key note speech overrunning.

Now it's about time I got some code in here...

// This is the world's most useless class
/**
 * This is a multiline comment
 * @author me
 */
class MyClass extends Base implements Interface {
	
	protected $_name = "Greg";
	protected $_age = 30;
	
	public function myMethod($arg, $optional = '') {
	
		return sprintf(
			"My name is %s and I'm %d",
			$this->_name, $this->_age
		);
	
	}
	
}

(function($) {
  $.fn.spruce = function(options) {  
    options = $.extend({}, $.fn.spruce.defaults, options);
  
    // function _parse() {}
  
    return this.each(function() {
  	  console.log($(this).attr("innerHTML"));
    });
  };
})(jQuery);

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entity_attr_id = 10 GROUP BY entity_id HAVING num > 1 
ORDER BY num DESC LIMIT 10;
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| entity_id | num    |
+-----------+--------+
|    409109 | 521467 |
+-----------+--------+
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