Today I created my first project on the Drupal website. Called Integrated Metatags, it allows the exposure of node data in META tags. This kind of functionality is something that my current project at work needs, and I wanted to make sure it was done right (in my mind, anyway). Since I knew that it would never be all that it could without some at-home finessing, I started work on it a little while ago and have finally coded it to a point where I'm satisfied with the functionality and the code.

php|works 2007 was a great conference, and I learned a ton. Sadly, it's so after the fact now that I'm going to forgo the rest of the notes and coverage that I had. I will say that it's definitely something I want to attend again. After the conference, I jumped back into work and quickly ran out of time and energy. I still have my notes and I may revisit some of those topics, but not like I had originally planned.

Read on to see what sessions I attended Thursday morning at php|works 2007!

The second training session I attended was on PHPUnit and Selenium. PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP developers which allows them to write their own code tests, and provides useful output on where tests failed. Selenium is an additional testing tool that allows you to playback browser-based tests. Combined, these two tools can do a plethora of tests on a web application.

Today I started php|works 2007 off with a phenomenal course on Flex and how to use it with PHP-based services. This 3-hour course went surprisingly fast as we had all of 30 minutes of lecture, followed by a lot of hands-on coding and designing.

Here I am at php|works 2007!

The online PHP course I've been taking ended this week. I can honestly say that I learned something new and relevant every class (ok, except the SQLite stuff), and it was very worth taking.

The other week I registered to attend php|works 2007, a PHP developer's conference put on by php|architect.

Back when I was in college, one of my employers had me work on a scheduling application. Basically, I helped make a PHP-based application which allowed managers to schedule their students at anytime of day or week.

At one point we had devised that an entire working block would be one entry in the database with a timestamp representing the start and end times of a block. We needed a way to pull all data for a given day.