Last year I already wrote about different initiatives in the period leading up to Christmas. In one of my talks this year, Level Up Your Team I’ve been discussing many ways of learning, and for this year I want to highlight one of the initiatives that I participated in last year, and again am trying…
Yesterday, @phpsw tweeted: also, still looking for people to speak about testing/CI in July/August, if anyone wants to volunteer before we start searching/goading 🙂 I, sort of jokingly, responded with: @phpsw if someone can give me a good reason to travel there I could 😉 I say “sort of jokingly” because: The discussion went on…
TL;DR: The people and the atmosphere Context First some context: In the past months, I’ve been lucky enough to have been at both the PHPNW conference in Manchester, the TrueNorthPHP conference in TorontoMississuaga, and PHPBenelux in Antwerp. I’ve been to those conferences before and hope to be at them again in the future. Right after…
Hi Liz, I was going to send this letter as an e-mail, but as I was writing the e-mail I felt it necessary to turn this into an open letter. Everybody should see this, and be aware of this. Everyone should stand up to support you. Openly, not just in private. It is amazing how…
At the most excellent PHPNW conference, Kat convinced me to deliver the first unconference talk of the day. It took me a while to get the right topic. I ended up with a topic I felt everyone at the conference could use for the rest of the two days that they were there: How to…
This blogpost has been on my TODO-list for a couple of YEARS now, so I thought it was time to finally write and publish it. It is actually not at PHP, but I hope all you PHP devs do stick with me and read the whole blogpost, as I think it is about a topic…
Who’s this? Oh wait, it’s me. I’ve finally taken the time to fix my blog. This means my archive of old blogposts is back, although unfortunately the comments are not. I took some time yesterday at the most excellent PHPNW 2013 conference to finally get my new blogging software (Octopress) up and running, together with…
Note: I am using Zend Server Enterprise on my local machine. While I don’t think the steps will be different for Zend Server CE, you might want to check to make sure. Starting out When you try to just install the Geoip package using pecl install, the installation will fail. Initially, the errors might seem…
Everybody pays The concept of “Everybody pays” is not new. It is actually quite normal in the Python world for community-organized conferences. It also depends on the conference. Nobody expects to get reimbursed for a barcamp or unconference. It’s “part of the deal” when going to such events. In the case of community conferences it…
Disclaimer I think I need to add a disclaimer first. First of all, I have much respect for all those that have contributed to PHP. The whole core team, the QA and documentation teams, the accidental developer, the extension writers, and all those I’m forgetting in this list. They all have made a difference and…