Proposal accepted for ZendCon08

My proposal "Digging Through the Guts of Enterprise PHP: A Case Study," which looks at PHP usage, techniques, and features as used at my day job at IBM, got accepted for the Zend/PHP Conference and EXPO 2008!

An exploration of the features of PHP used in the Ajax-driven user interface of IBM Rational Build Forge, with a focus on inheritance, interfaces, and Iterators. This talk will demonstrate how we built its user interface on a solid foundation of PHP.

I submitted it shortly after the call for papers opened up and this year, I got in. I've never spoken at a conference before, but it'll at least make for an interesting (and hopefully even successful) experience.

I couldn't resist one named "Tendrils"

While setting up the most recent addition to the house (my wife's new hi-res 17" MacBook Pro), I had a little time during Windows' installation into its VMWare image, so I took a look through some more of the visualizations. I saw this one, and ported it to JavaScript, adding a few lines to animate it:

I recommend sticking to a low number of tendrils (especially in Opera, which gets choppy rather quickly), or the non-animated version.

Based on Tendrils, Created by Tom De Smedt (which Tom based on the "Tendrils" algorithm by ART+COM).