Being the first day of 2010, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at 2009…
Burlington, VT PHP Users Group
2009 was the second full year of the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group. We had some fun meetings and presentations including:
January
Jason Pelletier gave a presentation on CSS for Developers.
CSS for Developers
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Last week I was at ZendCon, the largest yearly event of the PHP community. One thing that I’ve been thinking about lately, and something that many other people have talked about, is how unique the PHP community is. People are generally friendly and welcoming. Rarely do you run into someone who thinks he or she [...]
Last year was my first ZendCon experience and I’m happy to say that I’ll be going again this year. Here are some tips based on my experience at last year’s conference. These tips are meant for newcomers, but may be useful to alumni as well.
Participate in the backchannel. Last year’s conference attendees generated over 1,500 [...]
Last year I had the privilege of attending ZendCon ‘08 and next month I’ll be traveling again to Silicon Valley for ZendCon ‘09, “the larget event of the PHP community.” At last year’s conference I met a bunch of amazing people from the PHP community, saw several really good talks, and was one of the [...]
My first real introduction to Git and GitHub was at last year’s ZendCon. I’ve been using Subversion, a centralized revision control tool, for a few years now and it has changed the way I work. For example, I think in terms of changesets or “commits” that fix a defect, make an enhancement or complete a [...]
The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group has won a free pass to ZendCon ‘09 along with Austin PHP Meetup, the Chicago PHP User Group, PHPBenelux, and PHPWomen. Congratulations to my fellow PHP users group members! Now we need to pick a lucky member to get the free ZendCon pass. Are you a local PHP [...]
Rafael Dohms has posted a good summary of ZendCon ‘08. He touches on several topics including performance, testing and code analysis, PHP’s integration with other technologies, Zend Framework, and some interesting things to look forward to in 2009 including Ibuildings’ PHP Center of Expertise.
I presented highlights from ZendCon at last night’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting. I’ve uploaded my slides for anyone who wants to take a look. The presentation uses the S5 slide show format in case you are curious.
I’ll be presenting some highlights from ZendCon at this Thursday’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting. We’ll be meeting at Draker Laboratories from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Hope to see you there!
ZendCon 2008 wrapped up last week. This was my first time going to ZendCon and it was definitely worth it. There were over 650 people and over 60 sessions at the Santa Clara conference. I’ll try to post summaries and highlights from the sessions I attended. It was a great opportunity to attended presentations [...]