Pragmatism in the real world
I mentioned back in January that I'll be speaking at TEK.X in Chicago next month. Since then I've fleshed out the talks that I'll be giving and think they should be quite interesting. It turns out that Zend_Form is such a large topic that I could probably speak for 3 hours on it! As a result, I've concentrated on providing a overview of the component and how to use it followed by a look at… continue reading.
I'm delighted to be able to announce that I'm speaking at TEK X in May, in Chicago. This is one of the big US PHP conferences and I feel privileged to be invited. I'll be concentrating on Zend Framework with a tutorial called "Building a Zend Framework application" and a talk on "Working with Zend_Form". After a couple of less technical talks recently, it'll be fun to dive into more technical content. Hopefully, I'll be… continue reading.
The International PHP Conference 2009 took place last week in Karlsrule, Germany. This conference has presentations in both English and German, though fortunately, there was always at least one English session in each time slot! I managed to get to a fair few sessions. Cal Evans' talk on Zend Framework command line applications was an especial highlight as it's an area that we could do better and I now know how to! Similarly, we recently… continue reading.
I know I'm late on this one, and I only have the pathetic excuse of being busy. However, ZendCon 2009 was a great conference and I want to thank Eli, Zend and S&S for putting it on. I gave two talks; a Zend Framework Certification refresher tutorial and a talk on project management. Overall I was happy with how both talks went. I think that my presentation style has improved considerably over the last year… continue reading.
The PHPNW 09 Conference took place last Saturday and I've finally found time to write up my thoughts on it. I went up on Friday in order to meet up with the speakers for dinner and also to go to the pre-conference social at the Lass O'Gowrie. The conference was kicked off with an excellent keynote by Kevlin Henney on uncertainty. The main point I took away was that the attitude of "any decision is… continue reading.
At conferences, I really like to meet people that I know online, but haven't met in person before. The big problem for me is that I have trouble connecting the dots, so if we end up talking, please mention where I might know you from. For example: "Hi, I'm Sue. You might know me as fiddlesticks on the zftalk channel on freenode" and I'll be able to place you correctly and may even remember you… continue reading.
I'm speaking at ZendCon 2009 this year! I'm doing a tutorial session called Zend Framework Certification Bootcamp where I'll be highlighting key sections of Zend Framework that you'll need to know in order to pass the the ZFCE exam. I'm also presenting a standard session, Getting a website out of the door (aka Managing a website project) which will be a non-code talk about the realities of project management in a small web development company… continue reading.
The Dutch PHP Conference is over and so it's time to write a short wrap-up. Day 1 The conference was opened by a cool animated video and then Cal Evans welcomed us, with a nice short speech. The keynote was given by Andrei Zmievski of Digg. Andrei is a core devloper and gave an interesting overview of what we can expect to see next in PHP. I then listened to Paul Reinheimer talk about some… continue reading.
The Dutch PHP Conference is being held in mid-June in Amsterdam and I'm speaking at it! My talk is called Caching for performance and in it I'll be looking at how to use caching to improve the performance of a website. I decided to talk about this topic is that it's something that our customers have started asking about. I've started getting questions from clients asking how we can increase the speed of the their… continue reading.
Another PHPUK conference is over and again it was a good'un! There were a lot of good talks, though not all were targeted at me and I also got to meet old friends and make new ones. The day started well with probably the most inventive safety announcement ever by Marcus, though he should use a microphone next time! Aral Balkan's keynote provided food for thought and he's a very enthusiastic speaker. This was an… continue reading.
