Courtney Stanton had the following to say about getting more women to speak at conferences: The easiest way I saw for getting more women on stage at the actual event was to get as many women to submit speaking proposals as possible. We opened up the call for papers for the Northeast PHP Conference about [...]
January 22, 2013 – 1:41 pm
I’ve written a guest post in the Free Press blog on Why Gigabit Matters. From the post: Gigabit is almost 150 times as fast as the average national broadband speed, giving communities an opportunity to develop a thriving culture of innovation. But simply noting it’s 150 times as fast fails to capture its true import. [...]
December 7, 2012 – 4:39 pm
A handful of communities across the United States currently have access to gigabit-per-second (1 Gbps) Internet speeds. This super-fast connectivity is only possible with a fiber-optic infrastructure and a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment. Existing coaxial cables and telephone lines can’t even come close to providing gigabit-per-second bandwidth. But why does gigabit-per-second Internet speeds (and fiber-to-the-home) matter? [...]
December 3, 2012 – 2:43 pm
The latest issue of php|architect includes an article of mine on Building a Hypermedia API in CouchDB. The article’s description: This article demonstrates how to create a hypermedia data API using CouchDB, a document database and application server that is accessed through an HTTP API. URIs identify CouchDB resources such as databases, documents, attachments, and [...]
By Bradley Holt
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Tagged Cilex, CouchDB, Databases, Doctrine, Guzzle, HAL, HTTP, HTTPie, Hypermedia, JSON, NoSQL, ODM, PHP, PHPUnit, php|architect, REST
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November 26, 2012 – 1:31 pm
I’m happy to announce that my PHP 5.4 Cheat Sheet from DZone Refcardz was published today. This is a major update to DZone’s existing PHP Refcard with material for PHP 5.4 added. In anticipation of this release, DZone interviewed me about this update. From the interview: The PHP 5.4 Refcard is for beginner to intermediate [...]
November 18, 2012 – 6:44 pm
Here are the video and the slides from my Entity Relationships in a Document Database at ZendCon 2012. Some of the tools mentioned in the presentation: Doctrine CouchDB Doctrine MongoDB ODM
November 18, 2012 – 6:33 pm
Here are the video and the slides from my Domain-Driven Design talk at ZendCon 2012. If you’re interested in learning more about this topic then I’d recommend reading the original book on the topic of Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans. Eric also runs a training company called Domain Language which offers training on Domain-Driven Design. [...]
October 11, 2012 – 1:14 pm
Almost exactly a year ago I was appointed by the City Council of the City of Burlington, Vermont to the Telecommunications Advisory Committee. In this volunteer position, my role has been to advise the City Council on matters related to Burlington Telecom, a municipally owned telecommunications services provider. At the last regular meeting I was [...]
Tickets for the Northeast PHP Conference will be going on sale this Thursday, June 28th at a cost of $99 per person. The conference will be taking place on Saturday, August 11th and Sunday, August 12th at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA and will feature talks from dozens of speakers across four tracks. This [...]
