I finally uploaded the rest of the slides from the php conference. The PEAR talk went quite well. I could have used a few extra minutes, but the medium siued audience seemed fairly happy. I really like this talk because I think its really helpful for the audience to get some behind the scene infos of how to get the most out of PEAR (though alot of those hints you will not find in the slides).

I am dead tired but managed to pull off my 5 hour workshop on relational databases. I have already added a link to the slides section but for convinience here is a direct link. I think I need to add some slides on character sets and tweak some bits in the coming days when I find some time, but overall the talk went fairly well.

I know I will get misquoted, I know this will spawn tons of "told you so" and maybe it will cause a panic. Then again it could also be ignored, just like my last attempt at starting a flamewar :-)

While looking at the RoundCube source I stumbled over the use of PEAR::DB. True enough they had added their own wrapper around DB to work around its deficiencies. One of it was getting the last insert ID. Another one was the use of NOW() in their SQL commands.

Google has made my life a lot easier. I have been on the net long before Google began to make a splash. So I remember the days where searches either resulted close to nothing, nothing relevant or forced you through a world of blinking, bundled products and other stuff intentionally thrown at you, that had no relevance to your search.