24th November 2008
PHPNW 08 took place last Saturday, and even though I wasn't too well, I had a great time.
I thought my talk went okay, and judging from the feedback, at least some people learnt something from it which is good. I hope that the tongue-in-cheek references to my book were taken in the light-hearted manner intended. The conference seemed well-attended and the organisation was top-notch. Jeremy, Jenny, Emma, Lorna and everyone else involved did a fantastic job.
At both socials, I met some excellent people who were generous enough to let me be my usual opinionated self and so I learnt as much at the socials as I did in the sessions.
One side effect of being ill is that I didn't take many photos. The few I did take are up on Flickr.
The slides for my talk are up on slideshare too:
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4th September 2008
There's a new UK PHP conference coming in November. PHPNW08 will take place on 22nd November 2008 which is a Saturday so there's no excuses not to go!
To select the talks that will be presented, a Call for Papers has been announced with a deadline of 21st September 2008. From my reading of the website, this is a developer-centric conference and so if you have something to say about current PHP technologies and development you should consider submitting a talk.
One interesting thing about PHPNW is that there will be longer talks of about an hour and also shorter talks around 25 minutes. So, if you think that a whole hour of public speaking is too much, then consider submitting a talk that's shorter.
I will be submitting, so you should too!
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