This morning,
Lukas and
Toby are presenting PEAR and using it to create a demo application that accesses Ebay. A large number of developers here either haven't used PEAR before or are relatively new. So far, this is a very nice advocacy session. I'll be updating this post throughout the day.
One complaint: the hotel's internet connection wasn't set up with so many users in mind. Apparently they have an ADSL 3mbit connection (my guess), but it might be slower, as it isn't handling the number of users properly. On the bright side, it's now free. (In 2002 you had to pay for it.)
UPDATE: Toby went through the steps of creating a package, including setting up package.xml. He gave PEAR_PackageFileManager a huge plug. He also went through karma for php, pearweb and package. Also, it is worth noting that the demo app is running on PHP5 and uses PEAR_Exception.
UPDATE: Lukas and Toby also showed a wiki they created for their talk in Amsterdam this spring. You can get the slides for that workshop
here. It is based on
Text_Wiki with MDB2, and Liveuser.
