Tuesday, February 16. 2010
On March 2nd, we are organizing another PHP management seminar in The Netherlands. In one afternoon, we'll update IT managers, CIOs, CEOs, CTOs and (web) development managers on some of the latest developments in PHP development. Topics this year are:
- Service APIs; More and more applications are written using webservices, and in this session we'll show you why.
- Performance: As the internet presence of companies grows, performance is an area many people continue to struggle with.
- Cloud computing: In a few years time, we will all be working with clouds. Now is the time to prepare and learn what this means for your application development efforts.
- Make or Buy'; this eternal question deals with choosing between using off the shelf applications or building your own.
Wednesday, September 2. 2009
10th October 2009 sees the second annual PHP Conference to be held in Manchester, PHP North West. As one of the organisers I've been watching the arrangements come together with growing excitement: this year we have a new venue, a schedule literally packed with excellent sessions, plenty of social activity, and some community-driven input on Sunday morning - I'll even be speaking myself this year. Some of the topics at this year's conference include various PHP frameworks, performance, Drupal, project management, and much more.
The conference is a regional event aimed at PHP developers of all levels as well as their managers, coming together and exchanging ideas around developing PHP within teams today. Our attendees range from those living locally or making a daytrip of it right across to speakers and attendees flying in from mainland Europe. We're very grateful to all our sponsors, they've stepped up to get involved even in the difficult economic climate and without them this entirely volunteer-organised conference simply couldn't happen.
Monday, July 6. 2009
This year I attend the Dutch PHP Conference for the first time; and I must say I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It has been a good time to spend with my colleagues at Ibuildings, people from other companies all around the world and well-known names in the PHP community, like Andrei Zmievski or Sebastian Bergmann.
Andrei's keynote on the conference's first day was very good, but day one was already adequately covered by Jeroen, so I am going to sum up my experience of the last day.
Friday, July 3. 2009
After my colleague Cal reviewed DPC's tutorial day, it's now my turn to look back at the first real conference day of 2009's Dutch PHP Conference.
The day started with a nice movie made by Almer and Norman after which Cal officially opened the Dutch PHP Conference and introduced Andrei Zmievski to do the opening keynote. Andrei gave an outline of developments in PHP including the changes we are going to see in future versions. Closures, namespaces, better garbage collection and a few more things are coming to PHP5.3, but I think this isn't new to most people. I haven't really read a lot on PHP6 yet other than Unicode, so the addition of traits, C# style getters and setters and scalar/return value type hinting were new to me. I think this was a nice talk to be the opening keynote, because other than just being infomrative the talk also had the right amount of humor with some examples of frustrated people reporting "bugs" and a setting for y2k compliance. I wasn't active in PHP 10 years ago, but it made me laugh when I heard that the y2k_compliance setting basically did nothing other than stop people asking about it.
Friday, June 26. 2009
From the list of tutorials on Day One of DPC 2009, I chose to sit-in on Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course with the idea that it would be a good opportunity for a review. When he displayed one of his introductory slides about the topics he would be covering, there seemed to be no surprises: input filtering, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session management and PHP code inclusion and evaluation -- it was a fairly expected list of all those things in an application that can threaten at one time or another to come back and bite a developer on the back-end (or front-end too for that matter). Even though some of the topics on the list already suggested to me certain known risky situations and how to diffuse them, it didn't matter. I was here, after all, for a review, a reality-check, hoping that certain topics such as PHP code inclusion and evaluation would be made even clearer.
It worked like a charm, although, not immediately, not necessarily in that room on that day.
Continue reading "DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course"
Tuesday, June 16. 2009
This year's php|tek conference was hosted by php|architect just outside Chicago in the US in mid-May. I attended this year as a speaker delivering a number of sessions, and was also able to attend the some of the other sessions on offer at the event. There were some particular highlights of the week.
The first session of the main conference was the opening keynote, "The Future of PHP 6" by Andrei Zmievski. The talk was great but will be forever remembered for Andrei's t-shirt which read "I ? Unicode". With the conference in full swing, we moved on to some of the more technical sessions.
Tuesday, March 31. 2009
Just a short post to let you know that the tickets for this year's Dutch PHP Conference are on sale as of today.
Get your tickets here.
There's currently an early bird discount, so book your tickets now before the prices are raised.
With 2 days of conference plus a tutorial day, and many excellent speakers from all over the world, this year's event is going to be the best Dutch PHP Conference we've had so far. Don't miss it!
Monday, January 19. 2009
 Amsterdam is calling, the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers is now open!
Everyone here at Ibuildings is excited about the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. We've already started work on some of the exciting things we've got planned for this year. We want to encourage you to mark June 11-13 on your calendar and plan on attending.
Continue reading "Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers"
Thursday, December 18. 2008
 Back in November Adobe invited a representative of Ibuildings over (thanks Mike!) to attend Adobe MAX North America, amongst a small group of 13 other PHP and AJAX influencers.
The main reason to invite us, was to start a discussion on the direction they go in respect to their Flex and AIR development and to receive feedback on some of the plans they have.
Because of my fitting name, previous experience and current interest in Adobe products like Flex, AIR and Flash Catalyst (Previously known as Thermo), I was the chosen one to represent Ibuildings!
Continue reading "Adobe MAX conference report"
Friday, November 7. 2008
Last week I attended this year's fall edition of the International PHP Conference in Mainz, Germany. Aside from speaking there, I attended quite a few sessions, and met up with a lot of people from the community. I had a great time, and definitely learned quite some interesting stuff.
I made a schedule up-front and even though usually I hardly follow such a schedule, at this conference I actually did for the most part. The reason I usually don't follow the schedule is because I want to meet people and tight conference schedule's make that impossible. The International PHP Conference luckily offers enough and long enough breaks to meet up with people and talk to them.
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