Today I am back in the (home) office after speaking at ConFoo last week.
I gave two talks:
- Undercover Code—Supporting PHP with non-web tools; Slides (PDF); Session; joind.in
- Interfacing with Twitter; Slides (PDF); Session; joind.in
Despite some timing issues (as is always the case for me with new talks), I think both sessions went well. I got some good, constructive feedback from attendees on how the talks could be made better, and if I get the opportunity to give them again, I'll definitely take it into consideration.
Because PSAV (not the conference organizers' fault, other than trusting PSAV—a lesson all conference organizers eventually learn) was its normal bucket of fale, conference Internets weren't exactly usable. I was lucky enough to be in my home country (for a change), so I was able to tether on 3G for most of the week, and that kept me and a few others online. However, I think that most attendees didn't have the same opportunity, so if you attended one of my talks, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could head over to joind.in and post a comment or two about what you thought (talk-specific links above).
After the conference ended, Andrei stayed at my place.
On Saturday, we brewed a second annual batch of Белый, which—if all goes well—will end up at 11.5%ABV. Maybe it will be ready for next year's ConFoo. (-:
We decided to take it easy on Sunday… sort of. We spent most of the afternoon planning out a PHP extension we'd been talking about for several months: a highly-customizable and user-hookable PHP preprocessor. Afternoon turned to evening, turned to night, and by the time we turned in, we had a working—but not yet ready for release—extension. More details to come, but here's a teaser.