walkah: vancouver

Yesterday marked the end of the Vancouver PHP conference, which was a lot of fun and went quite well (I thought). I led two sessions : one on OpenID (with Johnny Bufu from SXIP). For those who don't know, I've been working a lot lately on getting OpenID support into Drupal - and it was nice to demo some of that work. I also covered how to use JanRain's PHP Library to OpenID-enable your PHP app (check out the slides here).

I also led a session on beginning Drupal module development. Those of you who attended the DrupalCon in Brussels may remember this as the infamous pants talk - always a crowd pleaser ;)

Thanks a lot to the organizers and sponsors from Vancouver PHP, I had a great time. Oh, and a special thank to Shane from ActiveState - part of the speaker shwag package was a license to Komodo IDE. I've heard good things about the latest Komodo, can't wait to check it out.

I've been meaning to post about this for a while, but in a couple weeks I'm headed back to Vancouver to present at the Vancouver PHP Conference, February 12th and 13th. I'll actually be giving two talks (back to back even): the first will be a joint presentation with SXIP on OpenID going through background and explanation and also looking at PHP code for openid (maybe even some drupal code ;). The second presentation - just me, sorry - will be an introduction to drupal development. Not to give anything away, but there may just be pants involved.

I should also note that fellow bryght guy and drupal ninja, Steven Wittens, will be presenting. But, if that's not enough, there will also be some other PHP developers you may have heard of giving talks like Rasmus, Derick Rethans and more - check the schedule for the complete list. Now, go register.

Last night's OpenID Mashpit went well. Despite demoing some code still under very active development, and having our internet connection drop in the middle of it - it was nice to show off some of the stuff I've been working on lately in a crowd that "gets it". More interesting, however, was getting a chance to talk about and get some clarification on certain aspects. In particular, I feel like I have a much better idea of the vision behind Attribute Exchange and how it should ideally work. If nothing else, getting to just chat about "Identity 2.0" with Dick was a treat.

Other bits of interest: we stood up a work-in-progress OpenID Provider (OP) for Bryght at home.bryght.com (using all native drupal code). It's *very* much still a work in progress, but also one of the earliest OP's "in the wild" to support the 2.0 draft spec (or most of it anyway). Similarly, SXIP has a demo Relying Party (RP) that supports attribute exchange - that will come in handy for testing against.

Thanks again to the folks at SXIP for hosting a great event, and thanks to everyone who showed up!

As mentioned by Boris, I'm headed to Vancouver this week to take part in the OpenID Mashpit hosted by SXIP. Yes, it's true I'll be showing off some Drupal OpenID code that I've been working on (along with Rowan Kerr who deserves a ton of credit). I'm pretty excited about it... I feel like I've been working on identity-related code for lots of years now (like 2!) so it'll be nice to get to hang out with others "in the field".

If you're not already on the list (and in the Vancouver area), come on out!

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I'll be in Vancouver next week to help run four days of drupal training. We (Bryght) are helping put on the event with our partners Raincity Studios. More info is available in the official announcement.

I'm told there is still space available, so if you're in Vancouver (or willing to travel) and interested in learning more about designing with or developing for drupal, sign up! I'll see you there :)

... only sort of sure how I got here. the last 4 or 6 weeks have been a bit personally chaotic - I'll leave it at that. all I know is I now find myself sitting at the illustrious take5 cafe (well, illustrious if you're vancouver-based bryght guy) with boris and adrian.

I'm in town principally for the Open Source CMS summit where I'm moderating a session on drupal's file api. Then, of course, I'm sticking around for the northern voice conference and moosecamp.

we also happen to have a thing or two going on at bryght...

so, i'm here for just over a week. if you're amongst the people languishing in my inbox, my apologies. i'm digging myself back out of the hole that was January, you will likely hear from me soon.