SnapTest 1.0.0alpha and SXSW Speaking
January 17, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
I've been quiet for quite some time, although for those who know my blogging habits that shouldn't be much of a surprise. I've been head down busy with a few things, specifically preparing for South By SouthWest (I'm speaking along side some very talented people, namely Alan Kasindorf of Six Apart, Blaine Cook of Twitter, and Sandy Jen of Meebo. The topic is on horizontal scalability, labeled "Scalability Boot Camp". Think of it like a firehose of really useful stuff, followed by some discussion about how this all works in practical startup (and larger company) environments. For the non-technical, there will be some grounding in business concepts from Kerry Miller of BusinessWeek as the moderator. For the technical, it'll be a feast of technologies and a yummy side of deployment and technical talk. If you're going to Austin, I'll see you there!
The second of the housekeeping stuff actually manages to eclipse my excitement about the SXSW thing, I can actually cross something off my life-to-do list. (Not that speaking at a conference isn't on there, I just haven't spoken yet.) Instead, I'm talking about the release of an open source project which I've been working on for some time out in the open. SnapTest, a unit testing framework for PHP, version 1.0.0 alpha is finally out. By "out" I mean there are wiki pages, documentation, and even a shiny .tar.gz waiting. While most projects I tend to do are for fun, personal benefit, this one has a certain tangibility (usefulness) to others.…