Well this is going to be a short blog post that will not really manage to summarize all the experience on my San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Austin, Tampa, Boston, Chicago, Zürich, Berlin, Güstrow, Berlin, Zürich round trip I was on for the last 4 weeks. But anyways, I wanted to mention that the slides from php|tek are now linked in the slides section.
I did a talk on various strategies of how to bridge relational databases and object-oriented programming. In retrospect I should have submitted this as a "double feature" talk, so that I could cover more ground on the actual using of the existing packages in the PHP space.
The other talk was on database locking. I think the biggest eye opener for people in that talk was about how MVCC, found …
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