Posts Tagged ‘ipc’

Today was the first day of the International PHP conference, where we have a booth for ATK.

I look back on a very fruitful day. Many people saw our demo, and reactions were overall very positive. What I particularly liked was when people visited us, then went away to attend a session, and afterwards came back with more questions. It's nice to see that the demo got them thinking about ATK during the sessions. This happened 3 or 4 times. I hope we can welcome many new users in the near future. Several people told me they would join the mailinglist. I'm looking forward to meeting them there.

Our neighbourws at the exhibition where the people behing the Dutch PHP User Group. This was a nice opportunity to become a member, so I did.

Our other neighbour was Oracle; they showed me a PHP plugin for their JDeveloper java IDE. It looked very interesting. Tomorrow I will try to give them a demo of ATK. I'm very curious what they'll think of it, as it runs on Oracle databases too. I've not yet visited the booths of Weaverslave, PEAR, Xoops and Maguma. Both Weaverslave and Maguma have a php-editor/IDE. I'm wondering how they compare to the Zend IDE I'm using. Will have a look at that tomorrow.

During sessions, when there were no visitors at the booth, I've worked a bit on an atkExportHandler for ATK. By setting the flag NF_EXPORT in a node, the user will see an 'Export' link in admin screens, to export records to a CSV file. It's a bit rough, but maybe I have some time tomorrow to finish it.

Tomorrow is the second and last day. I'm already looking forward to it!

While preparing my demo applications for the PHP conference tomorrow, Sandy showed me VertrigoServ. It's a PHP distribution for windows with Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. I used to use NuSphere, but that one comes without MySQL.

VertrigoServ seems ideal for demo setups.
It's easy too. You just need to start one program and it will start Apache and MySQL for you. The default configuration runs out of the box. (The only change I made to the default config was to disable register_globals in php.ini, as this is a possible security risk).

VertrigoServ is a bit lacking in documentation. It took me a while to figure out the default MySQL root password (requires configfile digging, and in case you're looking for it too, it's 'qwerty'), but once I got past that, the ATK demo ran like a charm.

I've got some 4.5 hours of sleep left before I have to wake up to depart for the conference. If I find some time during the conference, and a wifi connection, I will try to update the blog with info from the conference.

Goodmorning all,

Stewart James has been kind enough to set up a Wiki for the ATK community. Its purpose is to have a place where the community can help eachother with ATK issues. I invite you to create an account and contribute to the documentation.

We will have a booth at the International PHP Conference Spring Edition, in the Amsterdam RAI on May 3 and 4. If you're visisiting the conference, you're welcome to stop by to talk about your ATK experiences.

Finally I need to make a correction to a previous entry. Two entries ago, I talked about the Zend IDE and its template feature. I said that there was a free personal edition. A reader told me he couldn't find it on the Zend site. Well, there actually was such an edition once, but it doesn't exist anymore. The 'Standard Edition' is a good alternative. It's only $99 and that's well worth it if you code a lot of PHP.