Jul 31 2010

You got to love the conference season

The PHP conference season is reaching its climax with the many events taking place in autumn.

I personally love conferences, it’s the perfect mixture of geekiness, knowledge sharing, networking and socializing. Everyone has his reasons for attending.
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Jan 31 2010

PHPBenelux Conference 2010 in retrospect

The day after a PHP conference is the day you are most excited about PHP and the community. This statement also applies to me: I am very excited about PHP and the community after a fantastic PHPBenelux Conference (aka phpbnl10). Ter Elst in Edegem (Antwerpen) was the venue and hosting an international PHP conference was the goal.

The enthousiams for me is even greater because for the first time I assisted in organizing a conference. In fact it’s the first time this conference is organized.
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Jun 9 2009

A DPC 08 review for DPC 09

Dutch PHP ConferenceBetter 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 some good times and some expert opinions on common PHP topics. In retrospect, we got both in spades!
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Mar 3 2009

PHP UK Conference 2009 review

PHP UK Conference 2009

It’s been a while since I last attended an international conference. In fact, my last one was the unforgetable 2008 Dutch PHP Conference. It was also my first time at the London conference. It actually turned out to be a great one, hence this review.
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