The Developer Day » phpnw09 http://www.thedeveloperday.com Staying Curious Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:33:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 PHPNW09 Conference http://www.thedeveloperday.com/phpnw09-conference/ http://www.thedeveloperday.com/phpnw09-conference/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:02:53 +0000 Žilvinas Šaltys http://www.thedeveloperday.com/?p=174 This is my summary of PHPNW09 conference that I was lucky to attend. This was my first real conference and I was blown away. Talks that I enjoyed most are the keynote about the uncertainty principle, Lorna’s talk about the Joel Test and Rob Alen’s talk about project management. It was also very interesting to hear about the state of the PHP project and it’s internal development teams. Did you know that PHP has only about 100 active developers of whom only ~10 are core developers?

The event itself was perfectly organised. I don’t have a single complaint. Timings were perfect and don’t get me started about the food. It was delicious!

I also had an epic opportunity to see how Microsoft fails to demo their flowchart software which was highly amusing. Though I feel highly thankful to these guys because they were the major sponsors of the event not to mention their help on PHP windows builds.

In the evening we were invited to a SUN sponsored bar where I had an opportunity to meet and chat with really interesting people. Met a PHP star Derick Rethans, had a really great conversation with the event’s organizer Jeremy Coates and even met people from my own homeland.

All in all this was a great experience and I’m definitely coming back next year. There are also other conferences coming up in Barcelona and London which I hope to attend.

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