Last weekend I attended a PHP developer conference here in Manchester hosted by PHPNW.
\nPHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the North West of England, who come together once a month to talk with similar like minded people and have a pint or two. The sessions normally have one or two speakers and I recommend everyone pop down if they can.<\/p>\n
PHPNW have held two previous conferences but unfortunately due to other commitments I was unable to attend, which is why for this event I made the effort and made sure I was free to attend… and what a great decision that was!<\/p>\n
I was a little unsure what to expect from the conference, but with three tracks to follow all with interesting subjects I knew it would be a good day. I wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n
Rather than bore you with my thoughts, I’ll let you make your own mind up. I’ll list which talks I went to below but as PHPNW made the brilliant decision to film all their talks you can pop over to the schedule page<\/a> on their website and watch them all yourself.<\/p>\n Conference Site: http:\/\/conference.phpnw.org.uk\/phpnw10\/<\/p>\n The talks I went to were:<\/p>\n Keynote: Teach a Man to Fish: Coaching Development Teams<\/a> – Lorna Mitchell Geolocation and Maps with PHP<\/a> – Derick Rethans Debugging – Rules and Tools<\/a> – Ian Barber The Journey towards Continuous Integration<\/a> – Sebastian Marek Developing Easily Deployable PHP Applications<\/a> – John Mertic Database version control without pain<\/a> – Harrie Verveer
\nTrack 1 @10:00<\/p>\n
\nTrack 2 @ 11:15<\/p>\n
\nTrack 1 @ 12:15<\/p>\n
\nTrack 2 @ 14:00<\/p>\n
\nTrack 1 @ 15:00<\/p>\n
\nTrack 1 @ 16:15<\/p>\n