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Wednesday, 8 June 2011Dutch PHP Conference 2011
I have just returned from the fifth (and my second) Dutch PHP Conference (DPC). For the technical staff at Ibuildings the conference is a highlight of our year. Not only do we have a chance to visit the delightful city of Amsterdam, but we also have 3 days of stimulating tutorials and conference talks. There is the added bonus of being able to meet and exchange ideas with fellow developers from all over Europe and further afield, many of whom are the movers and shakers in the PHP world.
We believe it is of such value that all our developers get the chance to go, and few miss it. It is so easy to carry on creating software in the way we have always done, but we can't afford to do that in the rapidly changing world of the internet; we must keep up to date with changing trends and practices and adapt accordingly. Attending conferences such as DPC plays a vital part in this and we would really encourage others to attend, whatever your role in the development process. Ga door met lezen van "Dutch PHP Conference 2011" Thursday, 28 October 2010Search Solutions 2010
I recently attended Search Solutions 2010, put on by the IR group of the BCS. There have been some excellent roundups of the day already, so I'll just recap with a bit more on some of the talks that stood out for me. The day was split into four sessions, each with three talks following a certain theme. The initial session was on web search, with speakers from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Ga door met lezen van "Search Solutions 2010" Thursday, 24 June 2010What's current in the world of PHP?
2 weeks ago, Ibuildings organised the fourth Dutch PHP Conference in the RAI centre in Amsterdam. DPC is a way for us to help PHP developers learn new skills and improve existing ones, but it is also an excellent way to get experts from around the world together and learn about current trends in the PHP ecosystem.
Ga door met lezen van "What's current in the world of PHP?" Saturday, 20 March 2010Drupaljam Amsterdam
We haven't done much conference review posts, but since yesterday was our first time sponsoring and attending a Drupal event, and because I made some interesting observations from a PHP ecosystem point of view, I'd like to share my thoughts on Drupaljam.
Drupaljam is a community organized set of conferences around the Drupal content management system. Yesterday was the 6th Drupaljam and the largest to date with around 256 attendees. It was held at the Stayokay Zeeburg hotel in Amsterdam, conveniently located near a train station. Though the event had international speakers, the target audience was Dutch and it's nice to see that Drupal is able to attract such a large crowd in a small country such as the Netherlands. Ga door met lezen van "Drupaljam Amsterdam" Tuesday, 16 February 2010Dutch PHP Business Seminar
On March 2nd, we are organizing another PHP management seminar in The Netherlands. In one afternoon, we'll update IT managers, CIOs, CEOs, CTOs and (web) development managers on some of the latest developments in PHP development. Topics this year are:
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009PHP North West 2009
10th October 2009 sees the second annual PHP Conference to be held in Manchester, PHP North West. As one of the organisers I've been watching the arrangements come together with growing excitement: this year we have a new venue, a schedule literally packed with excellent sessions, plenty of social activity, and some community-driven input on Sunday morning - I'll even be speaking myself this year. Some of the topics at this year's conference include various PHP frameworks, performance, Drupal, project management, and much more.
The conference is a regional event aimed at PHP developers of all levels as well as their managers, coming together and exchanging ideas around developing PHP within teams today. Our attendees range from those living locally or making a daytrip of it right across to speakers and attendees flying in from mainland Europe. We're very grateful to all our sponsors, they've stepped up to get involved even in the difficult economic climate and without them this entirely volunteer-organised conference simply couldn't happen. Ga door met lezen van "PHP North West 2009" Monday, 6 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 2
This year I attend the Dutch PHP Conference for the first time; and I must say I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It has been a good time to spend with my colleagues at Ibuildings, people from other companies all around the world and well-known names in the PHP community, like Andrei Zmievski or Sebastian Bergmann.
Andrei's keynote on the conference's first day was very good, but day one was already adequately covered by Jeroen, so I am going to sum up my experience of the last day. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 2" Friday, 3 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 1
After my colleague Cal reviewed DPC's tutorial day, it's now my turn to look back at the first real conference day of 2009's Dutch PHP Conference.
The day started with a nice movie made by Almer and Norman after which Cal officially opened the Dutch PHP Conference and introduced Andrei Zmievski to do the opening keynote. Andrei gave an outline of developments in PHP including the changes we are going to see in future versions. Closures, namespaces, better garbage collection and a few more things are coming to PHP5.3, but I think this isn't new to most people. I haven't really read a lot on PHP6 yet other than Unicode, so the addition of traits, C# style getters and setters and scalar/return value type hinting were new to me. I think this was a nice talk to be the opening keynote, because other than just being infomrative the talk also had the right amount of humor with some examples of frustrated people reporting "bugs" and a setting for y2k compliance. I wasn't active in PHP 10 years ago, but it made me laugh when I heard that the y2k_compliance setting basically did nothing other than stop people asking about it. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 1" Friday, 26 June 2009DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course
From the list of tutorials on Day One of DPC 2009, I chose to sit-in on Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course with the idea that it would be a good opportunity for a review. When he displayed one of his introductory slides about the topics he would be covering, there seemed to be no surprises: input filtering, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session management and PHP code inclusion and evaluation -- it was a fairly expected list of all those things in an application that can threaten at one time or another to come back and bite a developer on the back-end (or front-end too for that matter). Even though some of the topics on the list already suggested to me certain known risky situations and how to diffuse them, it didn't matter. I was here, after all, for a review, a reality-check, hoping that certain topics such as PHP code inclusion and evaluation would be made even clearer.
It worked like a charm, although, not immediately, not necessarily in that room on that day. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course"
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Sessions at php|tek 2009
This year's php|tek conference was hosted by php|architect just outside Chicago in the US in mid-May. I attended this year as a speaker delivering a number of sessions, and was also able to attend the some of the other sessions on offer at the event. There were some particular highlights of the week.
The first session of the main conference was the opening keynote, "The Future of PHP 6" by Andrei Zmievski. The talk was great but will be forever remembered for Andrei's t-shirt which read "I ? Unicode". With the conference in full swing, we moved on to some of the more technical sessions. Ga door met lezen van "Sessions at php|tek 2009"
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