It’s been about two weeks since I returned from San Fran, as I attended the full ZendCon 2007. Most of the tutorials/sessions were enjoyable and most of them gave me some ideas for new methods as well as pointing new tools out to me. A few have already come in handy, like cvs2svn.

However, several of the presentations had very poor descriptions and were not exactly what I was expecting. A few sessions were essentially waste of time because the presenters simply read their slides and failed to show any useful examples. Those sessions were simply a very expensive blog post, and I’ll be discouraging any and all conferences I go to from allowing that.

I met several folks from various projects and I was able to give feedback about some of their items. I had lunch with a few guys from Zend, who were involved in developing the Zend Studio IDE.

I also got to play around with the next version of the Studio app, which in my opinion is not quite ready (although it was a Beta). This new version is based off of the Eclipse project.

However, the new Adobe FlexBuilder2 is also built on eclipse, so it may eventually be easier for me to move to more eclipse-based projects.

Now it’s time for me to re-read some of slides from those presentations and see if I can re-brew for any new information.