Tickets for DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 have been up for grabs for a while now. I was determined to get a ticket before the raffle this year, so I got them as soon as I found out. This DrupalCon has pre-con and training sessions; I'll be skipping them myself. I'll also be skipping any code sprints. After going to a code sprint at the end of the last DrupalCon, I realized that I'm more productive in an organized environment (I hope to change that eventually).

Registration for DrupalCon 2009 have opened! I was able to attend the conference in Boston last year, and it was great! This year is Washington, DC and I'm already looking forward to it!

Slashdot picked up a story today about PHP finally getting a namespace operator. Good news, until you hear that the operator is the backslash("\"). They reasoned out why this wasn't terrible, but there has been considerable backlash to using the backslash.

Today I created my first project on the Drupal website. Called Integrated Metatags, it allows the exposure of node data in META tags. This kind of functionality is something that my current project at work needs, and I wanted to make sure it was done right (in my mind, anyway). Since I knew that it would never be all that it could without some at-home finessing, I started work on it a little while ago and have finally coded it to a point where I'm satisfied with the functionality and the code.

php|works 2007 was a great conference, and I learned a ton. Sadly, it's so after the fact now that I'm going to forgo the rest of the notes and coverage that I had. I will say that it's definitely something I want to attend again. After the conference, I jumped back into work and quickly ran out of time and energy. I still have my notes and I may revisit some of those topics, but not like I had originally planned.

Read on to see what sessions I attended Thursday morning at php|works 2007!

The second training session I attended was on PHPUnit and Selenium. PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP developers which allows them to write their own code tests, and provides useful output on where tests failed. Selenium is an additional testing tool that allows you to playback browser-based tests. Combined, these two tools can do a plethora of tests on a web application.

Today I started php|works 2007 off with a phenomenal course on Flex and how to use it with PHP-based services. This 3-hour course went surprisingly fast as we had all of 30 minutes of lecture, followed by a lot of hands-on coding and designing.

Here I am at php|works 2007!

The online PHP course I've been taking ended this week. I can honestly say that I learned something new and relevant every class (ok, except the SQLite stuff), and it was very worth taking.