Zend Conference Report
I’m here at the PHP Zend Conference in San Jose, CA … what a beautiful city! I’ve never actually seen mountians! I don’t think I’ve ever been west of Iowa actually.
I got here saturday and had a lonely lunch by myself in the hotel restaurant, never before had I sat at a resturant and ate by myself! My coworker arrived later that evening and he talked me into trying Sushi. It was ok.. but… given a choice…I’d go for steak anyday. Not a big seafood fan.
Sunday - my coworker and I got adventurous and managed to get downtown and find directions to a mall. It was pretty much your average mall.. I bough a fleece shirt that came in handy on the ride back to the hotel.
Monday - Zend tutorials! I attended
Improving Performance of PHP Applications - Ilia Alshanetsky
It was very good, he’s a good speaker and I learned alot of things. About half of it was more hardware, apache fine tuning … and the other half, specifically PHP. For example, the @ error suppressor operator is actually quite slow. What it does is take the value of error_reporting and store in a variable, set the level to none, do your command, then set the reporting back to what it was. There were many other such things that I didn’t know before.
Essential PHP Security - Chris Shiflett
I thought I knew security stuff, since I’m an avid reader of Chris’s blog. But when I took the PHP Zend Certification practice tests at PHP Arch, I failed the security section!! So I knew I had to go to this one, I learned a few things I didn’t know or really understand before. I will be happy to say, that after this session when I took the practice test again - I passed the security session!! Hope you are proud of me Chris!
more later ……..