Tag: phpnw
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PHP NorthWest 2017 was the last PHPNW (for now). The conference was important, so it is time to say thank you.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: PHPNW conference, every first weekend of October in Manchester, is the best PHP conference I’ve ever been to. I buy my ticket blindly as soon as they go on sale every year. I’ve been accepted to speak very regularly in previous years and then raffle off…
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As you may not have noticed already, I have been accepted to do the closing keynote at the fantastic PHP NorthWest 2015 conference. I am really happy to have been accepted, as this keynote is a personal message from me that I think is important to communicate. In my keynote “Developers Are Just Like Humans”…
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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…
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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…
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It all started last year: I decided I wanted to go to PHPNW even if I wasn’t accepted as a speaker. Being Dutch, I made sure to purchase my ticket for the conference during the blind bird period to save some money. But then I got accepted as a speaker. Part of the speaker package…
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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…
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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…
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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…