The PHPSummerCamp of 2014 is over. Three days of hands-on workshops with experts from their fields provided us all with new insights, perspectives and tricks. While I wish I could have participated in all the workshops, that was simply not an option. Hence, I’ll talk about the ones I did join.
Appliance
Before the conference, we were given a Virtualbox appliance. For the uninitiated, an appliance is a pre-configured virtual box, something like a base box when using Vagrant, with pre-installed pre-configured software inside it. In theory, just booting it up should let you have the same environment as everyone else. In practice, this is rarely so - a huge chunk of the first workshop’s time was eaten away by configuration problems and folder sharing issues.
While it was disappointing that Vagrant wasn’t used to set up a unified development environment for everyone, the appliance actually worked amazingly well. Setting up a samba share AND maintaining a symlink consistency was less than a couple of minutes of work on my Windows machine, and while I can only imagine the hell they went through while setting it up, I wholly appreciate the ease of use it created for us, the audience. Well done to all, both speakers and organizers!
Day 1
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