Presentations
In the past 10 years I have given plenty of presentations. Since I started, I've always used the same presentation format. Because I am getting more and more questions about this, here is some information on what I use.
The presentation tool that I use is called "pres2". Or rather, it is simply the name derived from its original directory name. It is an evolution of Rasmus' original "pres" tool that he used to give PHP related presentations with. It has been used in the past by many other people as well, but as far as I know, it is now only used by Rasmus and me.
The "pres2" software is also what powers http://talks.php.net. It uses XML files stored in PHP's GIT at http://git.php.net/?p=presentations.git;a=tree. The software itself is at http://git.php.net/?p=web/pres2.git;a=tree. I have however written my own renderer that uses Zeta Components' Template component in order to make it easier for me to do something a little bit more exciting with the content (such as some effects). Sadly, this makes the slides on http://talks.php.net not render properly anymore. My version of the renderer is available through the "dericks-renderer" branch of the pres2 GIT repository: http://git.php.net/?p=web/pres2.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/dericks-renderer;hb=refs/heads/dericks-renderer
You can obtain the software and presentations by running:
git clone https://git.php.net/repository/web/pres2 cd pres2 git checkout dericks-renderer git clone https://git.php.net/repository/presentations
I have used this tool for all my 259 presentations, so I have invested a large amount of time into creating all the XML files. I mostly like it because:
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It is simple
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I don't need to click around to make presentations
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I can version the presentations and slides through GIT/SVN
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I can run PHP examples directly in the slides
And because of this, there is very little reason for me to switch to anything else.
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
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No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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