Sean Coates

In the put-your-slides-online-after-your-talk tradition, here are mine: http://www.phpdoc.info/talks/php_phone_home-vancouver.pdf. Enjoy. Or don't. (-:

I'm currently in Vancouver. It's rainy today, but yesterday, it was beautifully sunny and >10°C—a sharp contrast to the -20°C we've been feeling in Montreal, lately.

The 2007 Vancouver PHP Conference starts tomorrow morning, and it's looking like it will be an excellent event. If you're in the area and your work can spare you for the 2 days, I highly recommend that you show up tomorrow morning. Even with at-the-door signup, it's only $150—a great value!

As of 2 days ago, I'll be giving a talk on PHP & Asterisk, based on my article in the December 2006 issue of php|architect. I'll be taking over one of my colleague Paul Reinheimer's talk slots—he was really sick last week, and we weren't sure he'd make it (but he did, and he'll still be giving his Certification talk).

Anyway, if you can make it... do. If not, I've got a video of the same talk I gave at the Feb. PHP Quebec meeting on Thursday night that I'll link a little later (or you can find it on nexen.net).

See you here, I hope.

Hi all.

Just a quick note to say that I've asked the fine folks at planet-php to pick up only my PHP category.

This will let me use my blog for other not-necessarily-PHP posts, and it will keep me from becoming one of those guys who post useless personal entries to the planet.

I hope you'll still read the rest of my blog, but this way, I don't have to force it on you.

My full feed is here: http://blog.phpdoc.info/feeds/index.rss2, and as always, you can read my blog via your browser at: http://blog.phpdoc.info/.

Thanks.

Congrats to fellow PHPer, Ben Ramsey and his wife (whom I've never met (-: ) on the birth of their baby boy.

Ben: it was so nice of you to name him after me. I feel so honoured. (-;

In case you didn't notice, our friends at ActiveState released Komodo IDE 4.0, today.

I've been using the 4.0 beta series for a few months, now, and it's pretty sweet. It's my current PHP IDE of choice.

Accompanying Komodo IDE 4.0, is the new Komodo Edit, "a free, multi-language editor that makes it easy to write quality code."

Congrats to Shane, Jeff, and everyone else at AS. Hopefully you'll finally be able to get a reasonable amount of sleep in the coming days.