The DPC Uncon is very similar to the uncons found at other PHP conferences. There is little new about this uncon. However, it is a new addition to a conference with such a list of advanced topics that there is no doubt the uncon will also host a variety of interesting topics for people visiting…
In the past years the event has been amazing and I have a full trust that this year won’t be any different. With speakers such as Paul Borgermans, Mike van Riel, Christian Heilmann, Jan-Willem Eshuis, Mihai Corlan, Harrie Verveer, Bram Veenhof and many more on topics such as Database Control, Scrum, Flex, Dependency Injection and…
I think the idea started years ago. In the orinal Dutch PHP usergroup, we discussed it, but we never did it. Lack of manpower to pull it off, but I guess also a lack of willpower to want to pull it off. About 1.5 years ago, PHPBelgium truely kicked off and since they were already…
Change My colleague Mike already posted about 2010 being a year of change for him and I feel similar in some respect. Some things have recently changed and I’m already quite happy with the changes so I’m sticking with them this year. It’s a change in toolset for some of my tools, and more might be following.…
January The year started well for our dutch usergroup with the “Frontend Special“. A great event which, looking back, was probably a practice event for our PHPBenelux Conference which we’re organizing end of this month. It was also the month where I was really excited to announce that I’d be speaking at PHP|tek as well as PHP UK Conference. And,…
This is the first time we’re doing a conference of this size, but definitely not the last time. And it’s exciting already. We have already announced our first speaker: David Zuelke will be speaking about the state of SOAP in PHP. Aside from that, we have 9 other excellent speakers that will be announced in…
I arrived on friday night and was picked up by Bittarman from the airport. He brought me to the speakers dinner where I joined for a very nice dinner. The only disturbing thing was seeing Scott drinking only water ;). After a great dinner, we moved on to “the Lass”, the location of the pre-conference…
Last years speaker schedule was quite nice and this year again the organization has come up with a great list of speakers. The list includes (amongst others) Derick Rethans, Scott MacVicar, Michelangelo van Dam and Lorna Mitchell. I am very much looking forward to attending some of the sessions. My own talk is a brand…
My trip started on thursday night, when I boarded the ICE to Cologne from Utrecht. Now, the ICE is a great way to travel as I’ve experienced before and this was no exception. I was able to work on my workshop a bit more, and before I knew it I arrived in Cologne. There I…
Even before the conference had started, lots of fun was to be had. Even though I missed out on it, on wednesday some of the community joined for a tour of a brewery and a BBQ. Even with all that, those who were there apparently were awake enough to make it to the tutorial day…