International PHP Conference, day 1
May 3rd, 2005 by Ivo
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!