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I'm at the Microsoft Web Developer's summit in Redmond, right now, and I'll blog about that a bit later, I hope, but I just want to drop a quick reminder that the php|tek 2008 Call for Papers is about to close (on Oct. 31), so if you've been dragging your feet, now would be a good time to stop doing that and send in your proposals.

If you've ever had ambitions to attend a PHP conference on someone else's dollar, or get your 15 minutes of fame as a PHP expert, speaking at our conferences is an excellent way to achieve both. Every submitted proposal has a chance to be selected, so even if we've never heard your name, if we like your talk enough, you can be invited to speak at php|tek.

And for all of you veteran speakers: stop procrastinating and send in those proposals! (-:

S

To get away from my computer (sort of) and refresh my mind, I like to spend some time every couple weeks (or more often) brewing my own beer. It's a cool hobby, and there's lots of overlap with software development. And I get beer out of it, which is a nice bonus (-:



Anyway, a while back I wrote an article for uC Hobby, a site about microcontrollers, on my custom-built kegerator (keg refrigerator) and it was published, today. I didn't focus on the PHP side of the project (the part that collects data from the kegerator and turns it into usable data), but when the October issue of php|architect comes out, take a peek at the /etc column on rrdtool.

Here's the article: Arduino Beer Thermostat.

And a link to our brewing club's web site: MontreAlers.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have, I'd love to discuss it, beer, or brewing.



((Update: Cool. It got linked from the Make blog.))

S