I finished up my presentation at PHP|Tek 2009 this past week, and while I didn’t get to invest as much time making it beautiful as I had hoped it was a good first use of Prezi.  Despite Prezi missing a lot of much needed features it enabled me to qucikly get my ideas down in a format that was presentable, and I felt that the presentation flowed smoothly and conveyed the technical ideas well.

Responses from the audience seemed good, stating that the “zooming” affect of Prezi really helped hone in on important or detailed aspects of the presentation.  I think this is especially useful for technical presentations where there may be a significant amount of data, as well as code that isn’t always easily visible to the audience.  This years presentation contained some basic information from last year but I steered clear of the dreary INI configuration and instead tried to focus more on optimization, special usage, and work that’s currently in development for APC including lazy loading, no-copy usage of shared memory, and the GSoC project that may open some more doors for APC and other extensions.

I wish I had more time to spend at PHP|Tek this year, it was a good conference as usual and I was happy with the projectors here that enabled me to get something other than your typical low resolution display.   Unfortunately I had to rush back for a tennis tournament here in SF so I had to punch out early and fly home just in time to loose both my matches in the first round and get sick (some sort of pig flu or something I suppose?).   Anyways, I’m on the mend and looking forward to upcoming projects and other speaking engagements this and next year!

Prezi slides can be viewed interactively online or via an application download compatible with either Mac or Windows (Sorry Linux, check out the online vension).

Online: http://prezi.com/84786/view/

Download: http://tekrat.com/talks_files/phptek2009.zip