Sometimes It's Not the Post, It's the Conversation.
The absolute best session I attended at OSCON 2006 was the “PHP Lightening Talks”. Some of the presentations were interesting, others were hilarious. Theo Schlossnagle’s Why PHP Sucks was both. Theo is a facilitating to sit and listen to, as you’ll soon see when I post my interview with him. He’s also quite funny when he wants to be. His presentation was interesting. It was part tongue-in-cheek and part dead serious but Theo left it to you to decide which was which.
Chris Schiflett, who works with Theo at OmniTI, blogged about it when Theo posted his slides. His was just a pointer for those who didn’t see Theo’s original announcement. However something interesting happened on Chris’ blog, a conversation broke out.
Many of the people who attended the talk (Ed, Terry, Luke, Aaron and Ben were the ones I recognized) chipped in with their two cents. Terry even posted a spin-off blog entry. Many interesting points were made, some barbs were slung at Java and the appropriate amount of scatological humor was posted. (Appropriate for this group.) All stemming from a speech that lasted 5 minutes.
Picking my favorite post is a tough choice because there are some great points and posts. However, I think Ben Ramsey posted my favorite quote that I can print on a PG rated blog:
“but it’s not like PEAR is suddenly a turd floating in the bowl of PHP development”
The talk was good, don’t get me wrong, but the conversation it inspired is much more interesting.
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Comments
In any case, you attributed the quote wrong. It was Ed Finkler who said it originally. Ben Ramsey highlighted it.
Ed,
Sorry, it wasn’t Ben’s fault. I Just glanced over your post directly above Ben’s and missed that you were the originator of that quote. :)
Terry. Thanks for pointing that out. Oh and thanks for the photo tips over on Flickr. :)
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http://flickr.com/photos/muntoh/207348986