An excellent bash with a very nice venue. I’ve been to several PHPLondon gatherings and it was great to see it all come together. The ‘meet the speakers’ do the previous evening went very well – I had a good chat with Harry Fuecks.
The speakers were pretty good. Pawel’s Dependency Injection was probably the most underpresented, but had the best content, and had similarities to a talk given by Marcus Baker last year.
Matt Zandstra presented his template path pattern well, but I was left with the feeling that it was way too specific to be of much general use.
PHPLondon are a very comfortable bunch to be with!
SalesForce AppExchange launch
I went along to this big release bash for AppExchange. It’s really pretty good, looks like SalesForce should have some great success. It also made it very clear that we should really be getting some apps on it (building on Smartmessages experience) sooner rather than later, especially if you’re entertained by the the prospect of “sticking it to the man” that is Microsoft!
They put on a very good show. All the top management were approachable and helpful, as were many of the partners exhibiting there.
Skiing
Just back from an excellent week in Avoriaz. Decent snow for the first time in years – powder, sunshine and great company.
I tried some Rossignol Zenith Z9s and at last carving skis seem to be getting it right after the years of junk foisted upon us by the likes of Salomon. The Z9s are just great in everything.
Does no-one use mod_rewrite?
I can’t quite believe this bug really exists. It’s so fundamental to so many applications, principally redirects which are just used everywhere.