Usually this means I have to cancel my speaking at the conference, but I would really love to be part of this conference. So, I’m looking for one or more companies in the Boston area that are interested in hiring me (or possibly me and Joshua Thijssen, my business partner in Techademy) for training, consulting…
Let me start off with quoting a tweet I just posted: I find it interesting that people that claim to care about “inclusivity” say one should exclude people to attain that goal Let me get one thing straight: I don’t care *at all* about porn. I am not a consumer of adult entertainment. I also…
The conference, taking place on February 6th in Helsinki, is a new conference focussing on “Design, Development & Digital business”. It’s not a pure PHP conference, which is what I really like. The current list of announced speakers is quite nice already, I’m looking forward to seeing who else will be speaking. As for my…
PFCongres Earlier in the year I stepped back from PHPBenelux and joined the ranks of the PFZ.nl event team. Of course, with PHPBenelux we just had our annual conference, so I was already involved in organizing one, but PFZ.nl did not yet have theirs. That one is now scheduled for September 17. I am not…
The first conference I want to point you guys to is PFCongres. PFCongres is organized by Dutch PHP and web development community PFZ, in which I recently became an active member by joining their events committee. The PFCongres will take place on Saturday September 17th in The Netherlands, and I would highly recommend submitting to…
PHPDay The first conference I’ll be attending in May is PHPDay in Verona, Italy. The conference takes place on May 12 to May 14, though I won’t arriving until the 13th. The schedule looks amazing, with workshops by Fabien Potencier, Sebastian Bergmann and Paul Borgermans and talks by (amongst others) Kore Nordmann, Tobias Schlitt, Christian…
This talk is all about not using PHP. I have seen too often that developers or companies decide to use PHP for everything. And even though PHP is a very versatile language that can be used for a huge variation of things, it is not meant for all tasks. Sometimes it is better to go…
Our morning started early as we were driving down to Mainz. We arrived as the opening keynote by Zeev Suraski ended, but right in time for the first regular session. My session of choice was Ian Barber’s talk on debugging. Ian gave a good overview of tools and strategies for debugging and described some really…
SymfonyDay is becoming a nice traditional, even though it’s only going into it’s second year this year. With an impressive schedule it’s going to be an information-filled day for the attendees. Just like last year, I’ll be doing a workshop this year. This unfortunately means I will be missing the main conference track again which…
I will admit I was a bit anxious before the conference started on whether we would have enough people submitting their talks into the uncon. So on Friday morning we set up the flip over, I wrote down the session times and waited. Soon enough, a couple of people came to check up, and already…