Today I wrapped up from three days at the PHP/Zend Conference in Burlingame, California. My duties there were to work the Adobe booth and also to deliver the Adobe keynote which happened yesterday morning. I had a great time at the conference and talked to a ton of really smart people from the PHP community. Below are some of the things that I took away from the last few days.
- - The PHP community is very similar to the Flash community in a lot of ways. There are a lot of really bright people and they vibe is definitely laid back and somewhat edgy.
- - My keynote session was very well received and I was amazed at the attendance for it, as it started at 8:30. The crowd seemed very interested to hear about how they can put a richer front-end onto their PHP backends.
- - My honesty about how I “have never written a line of ColdFusion in my life” and about how “we use PHP all the time at Adobe” went over really well at the conference, but not so well within Adobe after they read this article
. - - There is a lot of confusion about Flash and Flex and how they relate to one another. It is something that is really hard to explain to people who have little to no experience with the technologies.
- - After researching the many ways to connect PHP to Flash and Flex I’m now really excited about doing some tutorials on this topic. Look for them soon at gotoAndLearn().
- - The PHP communty seemed genuinely excited about the potential of AIR. I showed them several demos including the eBay Desktop which they absolutely loved. I can see these guys creating some really cool apps in the future.
- - I used to think that I new PHP well, but after attending this conference, I’m clearly an intermediate user at best. These guys know their sh*t!
All in all this was a great conference and it was nice to present to a different audience than I typically do. Hearing the PHP community’s views on the RIA space was really refreshing as I’m usually talking to people who love Flash.
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