#tek09 – Day Two: A Hackathon And A Lesson
Friday, May 22nd, 2009One of the greatest things about the PHP community is the willingness of people to help one another. Picture this: you’ve got developers of all levels, working in the same room. They’ve been tasked with working on various open source projects. Only in PHP do you see expert level developers like Eli White, Matthew Turland [...]
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009Day 1 sure started with a bang, with Andrei Zmievski doing a phenomenal keynote on the future of PHP. There were great photos, including the (in)famous “ball of nails” quote from Terry Chay. Then it was off to the breakout sessions.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Tuesday started off with little fanfare but much anticipation as the tutorial day at php|tek got underway. There were a lot of great tutorials, but I chose to attend the Security Boot Camp by Christian Wenz, and the Subversion tutorial by Lorna Mitchell and Matthew O’Phinney.
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009Next week is php|tek in Chicago. Every day I’ll be blogging, tweeting and generally writing about how the conference is going. It will be fresh, fast, and relevant.
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009Thanks everyone for a great Wordcamp Mid-Atlantic and for attending WordPress Caching! Here are the slides so you can download them for your own resource.
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