Ok, here would have been a thing on how I decided to reuse Wez's PDO slides in the spirit of "code-reuse". There would also be a section on the fact that I added a bit of fluff on why bother with abstraction and how PDO fits into the grand world of abstraction and what layers exist on top of PDO. And that I held this talk at the Dutch PHP Conference, which had to turn down 150 people who wanted to come, because they couldn't get bigger rooms, but that the 250-300 people that did attend seemed to have a good time listening to a mix of talks in Dutch and English.
Also there would have been a section on how I first got in contact with Ivo from Ibuildings in the IRC channel of their open source project management tool Achievo and how I then met him personally for the first time in the same conference center in Amsterdam at the International conference spring edition 3 years ago and how they are now organizing a conference and representing Zend in the Dutch market.
There would also have been a section on that every PHP company under the sun, including my employer Optaros, seems to be hiring and desperately looking for experienced PHP developers. I would have noted that my personal most important criteria for a good PHP developer would be that aside from being fairly smart, that he/she would have the mind set to always refactor and cleanup things as he/she is implementing new features. Actually I would paraphrase Jani, aka Sniper, who recently said something like the following: "Whenever you open up a file, clean it up a bit more".
But unfortunately I clicked some magic button, so all the nice text disappeared and you are left with this odd text I quickly hacked up as a replacement. Grmbl. That reminds me that Firefox really needs a feature where it either automatically keeps a history of all forms submitted in a session, or at least provides a "back with no reload" button. I really hate it when I submit something and its gone because the web site decided my session is over or the server is down or whatever. Or maybe there is already an extension for this?
there indeed are already some firefox extensions to save you form data. Just check out FF-addons on mozilla 1
Hi, I was there at the Dutch PHP conference and I enjoyed your talk.
I almost never write substantial amounts of text directly in an HTML form field, it's much too easy to lose it all, I just fire up my text editor, type there and copy/paste into the form when done ...
FF is going to have this functionality (back/forward without reload), but is not there, yet
For now, you should check opera — it had it since long ago
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that despite not attending your talk (I wanted to see Ivo's ATK talk) I have really enjoyed talking to you at the dinner. And not just you, all the people there were really nice. :)
Save TextArea seems to work decently here. You can set-up auto saving as well, although there are some potential security concerns with that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1046
Pity, would've loved to read that story ;-)
@Stefan: Actually I would have loved to have seen your talk and Ivo's. But for one my Dutch isn't quite there yet and I am also unable to be in two locations at the same time. I have to work on both I guess. But yeah, the speakers dinner was quite fun.
@Lukas: Well, actually, my presentation ended up being in English since Gaylord was also there. Though the slides were in Dutch, the presentation itself was in english. Unfortunately, this was not printed on the programme (since the decision of which language to use was done the minute Gaylord walked in ;) )
Heya Lukas, you might be interested in adding LiveSaver to your blog system: http://livesaver.24inch.org/ : )
Cheers, Jan --
