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Microsoft Webcafe 2 in retrospect

Yesterday Microsoft hosted the second edition of Microsoft Webcafe. The event was held at Combell and we made our conference room available as well as our bar. The event aims to gather developers in an informal way. The webcafe concept is quite simple: a couple of short talks with a 10 minute timeslot each followed …

February 18, 2011 – 5:39 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Speaking at FeWeb10

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be speaking at 2010 edition of the FeWeb conference. FeWeb is the Belgian federation for webdesigners & web developers. They host an annual conference with parallel tracks, keynotes and of course the “state of the union” by the FeWeb chairman. I’ll be doing the intro & outro for the …

December 8, 2010 – 3:36 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Speaking at Intac

On November 9th 2010 I will be speaking at Intac (The Internet Academy) in Zwijnaarde (Gent). The talk will be in Dutch and is called ‘Van hosting tot cloud computing’. This talk will present a general overview on web hosting and the evolution of the classic hosting model towards cloud computing. It is a basic …

November 5, 2010 – 4:26 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

DMF10 slides online for “Lost In The Cloud”

My slides for the ‘Lost In The Cloud’ talk I presented at Digital Marketing First 2010 have been published on Slideshare. Enjoy !

October 30, 2010 – 10:45 am | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Speaking at PHP Barcelona Conference 2010

This weekend (October 29th & 30th) I will be speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference 2010. I’m quite excited about this one, because I’ve never been to Barcelona. I have 2 talks to present: Varnish In Action PHP Through The Eyes Of A Hoster

October 26, 2010 – 1:37 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Speaking at Digital Marketing First

On Thursday October 28th, I’ll be speaking at Digital Marketing First in Tour & Taxis (Brussels). At 15h00 I’ll be speaking in Room 3 about Cloud Computing. The talk is called: “Lost in the cloud: cloud computing, hope or hype?” and deals with the misconceptions and opportunities of the post cloud hype. Before my talk, …

October 24, 2010 – 7:41 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences, IT | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Speaking at PHP North West 2010

On Sunday October 10th I’ll be speaking at the PHP North West Conference 2010. My talk is called “PHP through the eyes of a hoster”. I’m looking forward to the conference, knowing it has an excellent reputation in the community and a great number of interesting speakers/talks. For those who will be present: have fun, …

October 6, 2010 – 10:05 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Speaking at DPC10

Today the schedule for the Dutch PHP Conference 2010 (AKA DPC10) was officially released. And I’m happy to announce that I’m part of it.

February 17, 2010 – 8:30 pm | By Thijs | Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

A DPC 08 review for DPC 09

Better late than never: since DPC 09 is coming up this week, this is the ideal occasion for a review of the 2008 edition. The trip to Amsterdam started off in Gent where I traveled along with Felix De Vliegher & Steve Roelens. Comfortably cruising along the Belgian & Dutch motorways, we where looking for …

June 9, 2009 – 10:57 pm | By Thijs | Posted in PHP, Review | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

“CLI, the other SAPI” slides online

Better late the never: I finally put the slides of my presentation called “CLI, the other SAPI”. I did this talk some time ago at the PHPBelgium user group meeting which took place in the COMBELL offices in Gent. As some of you might have noticed: my blog series “CLI, the other SAPI” is actually …

May 27, 2009 – 11:04 pm | By Thijs | Posted in CLI, PHP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)