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Monday, July 6. 2009

DPC 2009 Day 2

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.


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Friday, July 3. 2009

DPC 2009 Day 1

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.


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Friday, June 26. 2009

DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course

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.


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Tuesday, March 31. 2009

Dutch PHP Conference tickets are on sale

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!
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Monday, January 19. 2009

Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers

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.

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