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php|works 2007 was last week, and it was a great experience for me. Here are the slides and code from the presentations I gave:

• Introduction to CodeIgniter
  • Example app used in talk — includes CodeIgniter and ZendFramework
• Securing the PHP Environment With PHPSecInfo

I really enjoyed my trip to Atlanta and the conference experience. Much like php|tek this year in Chicago, ‘works was filled with lots of great content, smart people, and a casual, comfortable atmosphere that makes the whole thing a lot of fun. The php|architect conferences lack pretension, and that’s really nice — it’s about the people and sharing knowledge. And this one was really special for me because it’s the first time I’ve given a presentation to my colleagues in the community. I was very nervous, but it all turned out well.

I’m too lazy busy to write out an extended journal of the whole experience, but here are some memorable moments:

• Being sick just two days before I was about to leave, and getting better just in time to go
• Having my first flight cancelled, giving me time to mostly finish my CodeIgniter talk before I left the Indy airport
• Getting to the hotel just in time to catch Chris Shiflett’s funny PHP4 is Dead keynote
• Discovering the hotel room had a flat-panel TV. Unfortunately, no HD content
• Catching up with Lucas Nealan, and getting an unexpected phonecall with great news
• The fact that there were about 7,000 iPhones on-hand
• The Paul Reinheimer quad-core drinking demo (sponsored by Microsoft)
• Ramblecast: the loudest, drunkest, least productive group podcasting experiment ever
• Learning a lot more about the Filter extension from Derick Rethans, and seeing how it compares to Inspekt
• Losing power in the middle of my PHPSecInfo talk, and Paul M. Jones resuscitating the projector
• Terry Chay’s software architecture talk. I didn’t agree with everything he said, but I laughed my ass off
• Meeting people who have actually heard of me and used tools I’ve made. Weird
• Good conversations with too many people to name