Sometime early last month Nick Tran contacted me and asked if I would like to be a speaker in the PHP session and I accepted. Honestly at first I was a little hesitant because of the audience. I did not want to be drilled by my peers in an open forum, but after accepting and participating yesterday, September 18th, 2007, I was glad that I did. I was extremely nervous about speaking about a topic that I am relatively new to, but I think I was able to get my topic of data backup across to the small crowd that attended.


Dreamforce is an amazing and I was blown away by the actual size of the event. The others that I have met while attending has truly been a blessing and I hope that those of you who asked me questions did receive the answer that you were looking for, but if you did not please post here or send an email using the contact form on this site and I will gladly reply.


Please understand that I am no superstar developer, I am just Mike. I really like to help people; I always have and probably always will. I get satisfaction from doing this. See the PHP community, to me, is one where developers help each other, I have always had that feeling from the forums that I visit (and ask a lot of questions on). The PHP community in Salesforce is quite small and I really think that if we can push it on to other developers and organizations that it will grow and grow. I mean why not, it's free!


Today I started a new thread here on my (so-called) blog about the visibility of PHP and Salesforce:
Salesforce PHP Open Discussion


I would hope and like for others to help me with the thread because I want to use it to show Salesforce that the visibility and documentation, such as coding examples in the API books needs to increase, to show examples using PHP, not just C and JAVA.


I would like to thank Salesforce and Nick Tran for allowing me to speak at the session. I truly am blessed to have been asked.


I would also like to thank everyone that attended and listen to me rant about data backups; I hope that you did get something out of it.


~Mike