Archive for April, 2006

It has been decided that since I’m such a brilliant writer (since when?) and I’m involved in open source PHP projects, I should make a few presentations to a local developer group. Honestly, they must never read this blog or they’d know better…. Since these are pencilled into the official calendar for early Summer I’ve kick-started the process.

I finished up a first draft of a tutorial on PHP DataObjects (which will make a bit more reference to ORM when I get to Draft 2 maybe) based off the Data Access regime I wrote for QS. I still need to make a spiel about code generation, and link it all to ORM making certain everyone is aware of the whole hog alternatives like Propel, Zend’s possibly imaginary DB Objects, etc.

Since its a tutorial it’s basically a from scratch guide to creating the Partholan classes – so it’s not complex since what I wrote is really really simple in comparison. But hey, it works quite well and does the job its supposed to. I even planted multiple references to why its so simple so I don’t look completely lost. Anyways, since its draft 1, for a public audience, and my own work I have also submitted it to the Devnetwork forums for consideration and review.

I’ll probably get another two tutorials pieced together in the next few weeks – one is more presentation style than practical, an overview of the impact of open source in Irish business. At least here I can nod my head sagely and note Ireland still exists largely in the Stone Age – what open source? That’s going to need some digging for something interesting. Another is going to be on Web 2.0 mainly the practical applications in making oodles of advertising revenue from everyone else’s hard work – a popular subject. Sir. Brian (Esquire, Count of Monte Killiney) who is the resident Ruby (and apparently that ugly thing… What do you call it, Brian? Coldfusion? My God!) is helping out with his insightful comments on the imminent demise of PHP while waving his Ph.D. in my face.

Apparently its going to be titled “Web 2.0: The Death of PHP”. Catchy. Personally I think Brian is on a quest to terrify the ex-Coldfusion developers who defected to the “cute but unnecessary templating language” and abandoned him. Poor guy. Sorry, Brian. At least Java lives on – you could get a shiny Coldfusion-free job over at Upstart Games – they’re on the hunt again. I think plain old “Web 2.0″ will cover us, you can drone for a while about Basecamp if it makes you feel better.

P.S. I did hear someone has actually written a PHP frontend for a marketing database over in the fair land of telecommunications.