OSCON Day 2
Here are the sessions I attended on the second day:
VIM for PHP Programmers
Andrei Zmievski, Chief Architect, Outspark, Inc.
I had a tough time deciding if I wanted to go see Andrei, as there was
a session on Windmill - http://windmill.osafoundation
automated Ajax testing tool. It was a very informative session if you
use vim, he demoed a lot of plugins I’d never seen.
Cache That!
Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Yahoo!
I wanted to go to “Error Handling in Ajax” but at the last minute, the
event director came in and told us the session was canceled. This was
my 2nd choice, so I came in a little late to a packed room. Gopal
is the lead developer of the APC php caching engine
http://pecl.php.net/package
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Wez Furlong, Lead Architect, OmniTI, Inc.
PDO is similar to ADODB or the PEAR database abstraction layer, except
that it is a PECL package, so it is much faster.
Security 2.0
Chris Shiflett, Principal, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Chris covered the two main website attacks - XSS and CSRF, as well as
newer attacks, which are basically a combination of both of them.
Prototype and Object.prototype: JavaScript Power Tools
Amy Hoy, Lead Interaction Designer, Lime Wire, LLC
Lately, I’ve been playing around with Prototype (an Ajax/javascript
library) http://www.prototypejs.org/ so I went to this session. I
learned a couple of tricks, but mainly she just covered the basics of
Prototype.
PHP Add-ons for Fun and Profit
Brenda Wallace, Catalyst IT
Brenda covered memcache, a data caching library, eAccelerator, which
is a php cache & data caching library.