There and Back Again

Ok so I got more pictures uploaded from my holiday in Europe. I got lazy and stopped renaming them so you’ll have to what the # ones are pictures of.

Oh and for all of you that said gallery is great, your insane. Its got a horrible interface, I constantly have to change the same setting over and over. It has limited image sizes.

Of course it does have the spiffy XP upload wizard, so until someone writes some new gallery software that Just Works. I’m stuck with this.

Oh and go view the photos some are actually good.

Jason Sweat has slides from a presentation titled “Documenting PHP Applications” that he gave at PHP|Works in Toronto. I wish I could have seen the presentation, the slides are great.

If your new to phpDocumentor reading the slides is a great place to start. He does a great job of showing off the basic features, and gives some nice examples of the code -> document path. Made me feel like Jason knows more about phpDocumentor then me :-|.

On a slightly related note, there are some people having problems running phpDocumentor on OSX if someone runs it and would be willing to help debug, I’d be greatful.

I got all the pictures from Rome renamed and they are uploading as I type this. The Panoramic shots will be a bit, looks like im going to need to find a better program to stitch them together, or at least i’ll have to try the other slower program I have.

Anyhow for your viewing pleasure, 101 pictures of Roma.

I added a firefox logo to the site from Spread Firefox, it looks to be a good attempt to manage grass roots marketing.

I also wrote a little hackish plugin to allow me to display info from my profile in my template. The result is the the Author box on the left. You can download the plugin from my Worldpress Plugins page.

Update:
I also did some css tweaking, the calendar should suck a little bit less, and I turned off the Opacity hacks for now.

I’m back in London and Sue and Megan and on their plane.

I had a good time on the trip, saw lots of neat stuff, got annoyed with my fellow travelers (they’re women after all), spent too much time on trains, and saw lots of old Stuff.

I’ll be attempting to get back into the work swing.

But on a more exciting note, pictures from the trip are getting uploaded into my gallery, and Megan is back dating blog entries for the trip.

Im in Rome things are going well. Still left are Florence, Prauge, and Amsterdam.

I’ll be traveling around Europe for the next couple weeks. I’ll have a couple hundred more pictures when I get back.

I should be checking email again on the 21st or the 22nd.

Php London was tonight, great group. We spend less time presenting then at azPHP and more time drinking but there is nothing wrong with that.

We had some very good converstations on templates tonight.

Templates we talked about:

• Smarty - No good things to say here (fat and slow)
• Flexy - Was the prefered solution of some, compiler with light weight runtime
• Savant - My prefered solution but I might not be the normal use case

I just made the last train home, and im a little pissed, so its not the time to go into details, but what makes a good template engine is a topic I would like to discuss more.

And the article by Harry that started it all: Templates and Template Engines or why do we need to make up a new language when we have PHP