So this site has been up officially for just shy of a month. It has, of course, gotten virtually no traffic of note. I've been hit by the Google bot¹ and myself several times, and probably a few other minor things. But that's about it. That's ok, though. This site is more for me to have a place to put down thoughts than a traffic generator ;) But I'm going to fuss over it for quite a while, until I'm completely happy about it. So this page will be a sort of placeholder for what needs to be done still (besides writing meaningful articles).

• Mobile support Responsive layout. This layout sucks has issues on my phone. It's not bad on my tablet, but could use work there, as well. The biggest problems right now are the menu and previous/next navigation.

• Remove the individual category links from the categories page. These are actually atom feeds. So...maybe make them look like it. Or, change them to match the individual tags pages but also do an atom feed. Done January 11, 2016.

• Add feeds back in.

• Add a comment system. I don't really like Disqus, so I'm looking for a viable fully open-source substitute. Discourse sounds interesting, but I don't know if it's appropriate. In the meantime, email me.

• Go HTTPS. This may happen when Dreamhost supports Let's Encrypt directly. Or I may switch to a different hosting provider. Who's to say at this point. Using Let's Encrypt via Dreamhost as of April 13, 2016. It took me exactly 15 seconds! Of course, I'm not redirecting yet. But that could happen soon... Redirecting as of May 17, 2016.

• Fix the favicon to be mine (and not Sculpin's). Done on May 17, 2016. Not perfect (source image not high enough resolution) but done for now.

• Add code colorization. Probably with Hyperlight so it's pre-rendered in HTML rather than JavaScript later. I dislike it when code morphs in the middle of reading it.

The return trip from php[world] 2015 was worse than the trip there. During the final keynote I got a message from the airline that my flight (which wasn't supposed to leave until 7:30) was delayed by 40 minutes. That wouldn't be a big deal, but I had a connecting flight that was supposed to leave just 10 minutes after the first flight was now expected to land. I was going to see what I could do about it after lunch.

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Here I am finally summarizing my last day at php[world] 2015. It's only been 17 days since it happened. Given how often I've blogged in the past, I guess that's not too bad.

Anyway, on to the summaries for Conference Day 3!

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So...even later still. I'm writing this on December 6—16 days after the fact. As such, this will be more brief than the brief summaries I wrote previously (Tutorial day and Day 1).

I went to the following talks on Conference Day 2:

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Sigh.

I was going to try to get these done the day of or shortly after. It's now Friday night and I've fallen way behind. Oh well. It's because I was busy at the conference, thanks to the amazing folks at PHP Architect. And it means these will be shorter that I'd like.

So on the official Conference Day 1, I saw two keynotes and went to four talks:

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