What a great week! So many things have been going on. If you live in Nashville especially, you have a lot to be excited about. The official releases of symfony 1.3 and 1.4 provide a lot of exciting new functionality in the framework, which you can read about here. But even more exciting is this year’s advent calendar, a large part of with being contributed by Nashville’s own Ryan Weaver! Be sure to check it out, and consider purchasing the book from amazon to support the community.
Also, my personal project Symplist is now launched, and in Alpha. Please check it out and provide feedback. Symplist is a plugin site that exists for the community. Its greatest asset will come with individuals like you rating and commenting on plugins. Another section of the site, which I’ve dubbed “Community Lists”, is something I hope will be a great help to the community. This section will function as a repository for dense information. An example of this is a list I’m putting together of Symfony Best Practices. The highest-rated items in each list sort to the top, as do the lists themselves. Check them out, rate and add items, and leave some feedback!
On a separate note, Jon Wage (Nashville native) has recently been pushing PHP Interoperability Standards with PHP 5.3’s namespacing support. I would recommend checking it out! If you personally have any PHP projects, or are currently developing one, consider incorporating these standards.
If you want to get involved, consider joining the Nashville Symfony User’s Group, which meets at Centre{source} the first Tuesday of every month! Symfony is taking off, and Nashville is right on board!
Well, BarCampNashville ‘09 is over. The afternoon included free beer, a mechanical bull, and lots and lots of tech talk. Travis Roberts and I presented our session in the form of a blood-boiling feud between Symfony and Rails, Ruby and PHP. In reality, both of us were very respectful, and have still remained friends (although I did put Belgian Flesh-Crabs under his bed).
Here are some photos of the event, but really all you need is this spellbinding image:
No, I am not offering Travis a joint with my left hand… It’s a mic for the U-Stream feed. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us, to everyone who came out to Bar Camp Nashville, and to Bar Camp Nashville for letting us present! What a great event. A lot of local developers showed up, and it was a blast.
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