Well yesterday was day one of ZendCon 2008. Actually, the conference proper started today, yesterday was just tutorials.
So far I’m pretty impressed. I attended the PHP Developer Best Practices tutorial in the morning and the Quality Assurance in PHP Projects tutorial in the afternoon.
The Best Practices tutorial was a little broad and most of it was focused on topics that were pretty common / basic. I’m not sure exactly what I wanted to get out of it, but for somebody who already uses an SCM system, who already tests (although not as much as I should) and writes api documentation it wasn’t the most informative tutorial.
Sebastian Bergmann’s QA tutorial was excellent. Of course, as the primary author of PHPUnit, I assumed Sebastian would know what he was talking about and I was right. He offered a really good, in depth look at PHPUnit and covered some of the newer features. He also covered Selenium and specifically Selenium RC in quite a bit of detail.
Looking forward to more sessions… the day of tutorials was a great start, can’t wait to see what the conference proper has to offer.