First of all, I must say that the Dutch PHP Conference schedule is one of the best schedules I’ve seen at a PHP conference so far. At nearly any given time slot there are multiple sessions that are interesting. I also want to mention that even though I recommend these sessions, this does not mean…
The trip started on monday with an early flight to Chicago via Dublin. While waiting for my flight in Amsterdam, I found out via twitter that David Coallier was on the same flight as me from Dublin, and indeed at the Dublin airport we ended up meeting eachother. We chatted for a bit, I leeched…
As I will be flying in on wednesday, I’ll be missing the workshops. Quite a shame, as Sebastian’s workshop on Quality Assurance in PHP looks quite interesting. I guess I’ll have to catch that one elsewhere. Looking at the DPC schedule there’s still one slot open… oh Cal, look what is very interesting! 😉 On…
Over the past year I’ve done several presentations at user groups and conferences on the topic of refactoring. In this talk I shared some of my knowledge and experience with refactoring. Even though I am not the biggest refactoring expert, I believe that I know enough to share it with people interested in the topic.…
The trip will be a very quick trip. I will fly out tomorrow evening, land in Katowice (1.5 hours from Krakow, as I have understood) at 21:30. I will attempt to sleep in the hotel, and then get up early as I’m on second in the Dedicated Languages track (after Ibuildings CTO and overall cool…
I arrived on thursday morning in London for a day of working in the Ibuildings office there. So I had a very early flight in, which may not have been the smartest of things to do. But it worked alright: I missed high traffic to Rotterdam and was able to get into London before 9AM…
Obviously I’ll try to visit the keynote, and I should, really, because the keynote by Aral Balkan sounds interesting enough. After the keynote, I’ll be wanting to visit David Soria Parra’s talk on Sharding Architectures. Having been seriously introduced to a sharding architecture last year in a project, but not seriously exposed to the details…
The about 50 attendees of the event started coming in at about 9:45. They had some coffee and were able to chat a bit with eachother and get to know eachother. At about 10:30, I started out with the opening talk, welcoming everyone and telling them what they could expect. After the welcome, Bram Veenhof…