A couple of days ago the DPC ’09 ended and I must say that has been a good time. Nice people to talk to and some interesting talks. Here there are my favourite ones:
- All the Little Pieces: Distributed systems with PHP
- What are you talking about? Document classification in PHP
- PHP Compiler Internals
- Trees in the Database: advanced data structures
The talks are listed in a chronological order, from the first I’ve attended to the last one. Some quick comments about them: the first talk, from Andrei Zmievski, was well presented and full of information: at some point he was panting not to run late 
The second one from Ian Barber (my colleague at Ibuildings) was about one of my favourite disciplines and the tradeoff between the academic notions and the practical PHP approach was very good! The third one was from Sebastian Bergmann and has been nice to see some good stuff studied years ago related to something I use every day. The last (but not the least) one was from Lorenzo Alberton (another colleague of mine): another talk that surely differs from the rest; interesting informations about alternative ways to represent trees structure and how to deal with them in an RDBMS.
To conclude, I’ve attended other two talks but I didn’t like them and don’t bother tell you which they are (but you can find all the talks from the DPC ’09 here). I did like, however, the keynote from Andrei: PHP: People, Code, Ideas.
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