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Ian Barber's Blog: Presentation Tips from Benelux

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:52:15 -0600

In this recent post to his blog Ian Barber offers up some hints on presenting at conferences (or other events really) based on some of his experiences at this year's PHP Benelux Conference that just wrapped up in Belgium.

Some of the conversations I had during the weekend were around technical presenting at conferences and usergroups, so I thought I'd collect a handful of the tips that were discussed into a post, and use a few of my favourite speakers at the event to illustrate them.

He has it broken up by speaker, first David Zülke, Rowan Merewood and David Coallier, each with their own highlights of what they did well in their presentations. The list includes:

Make concepts concrete with examples and demos
Care About The Visuals
Project Confidence
Engage The Audience

Ian provides summaries for each of the points, describing what the speaker did to accomplish it and how it could be put into practice by other presenters.

Community News: PHPLondon Conference 2007 Announced

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:21:40 -0600

As posted here by Marc Gear and here by Joshua Eichorn, the PHPLondon user group has announced their PHPLondon Conference 2007.

After the success of 2006 the PHP London user group are staging the UK's second dedicated PHP conference on Friday, 23 February 2007.

The conference will be a low-cost event, costing £50 for the day. There is a 230 person limit on the number of delegates we can support, and demand is expected to be high, so make sure you register early. If you'd like to register, check out the conference's main page and enter your information today.

The conference will be happening over at the Keyworth Centre and speakers attending include Cal Evans (of Zend's Developer Zone), Simon Laws (of IBM) and Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP).

Community News: Registration Reminder for D.C. PHP Conference 2006

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:44:38 -0500

The coordinators for this year's DC PHP Conference have submitted a reminder for developers out there looking to attend:

Registration is still open for the 2006 D.C. PHP Conference.

Great speakers: Rasmus Lerdorf (who got the PHP project off the ground in 1995), Chris Shiflett, Adam Trachtenberg, Laura Thomson, David Recordon, Elliot White III, Mike Naberezny, Will Fitch, Ben Ramsey, Tony Bibbs, Brian Ashe, Shen Guo and Bram Vogelaar.

Our L'Enfant Plaza Hotel venue is walking distance from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum and the new American Indian Museum.

To get the full details or to just sign up right away, head over to the main conference site and get all the details. Pricing starts at $695 USD ($400 for students) and includes two days jam packed with PHP goodness.

Community News: The Future of Web Apps Conference

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:26:23 -0500

Are you a developer out there looking to to get out there on the bleeding edge of web development work, finding the next hot thing? Or do you just want to mingle with some of the finest web development minds out there? You might take this upcoming conference into consideration - "The Future of Web Apps".

This is an exceptional opportunity to discover how the web's most successful sites and applications were built, plus you'll get expert practical advice from the best in the business on creating your own web app. Whether you're a developer, business owner or entrepreneur, join us for this exclusive two-day audience with the biggest names in web development.

The conference is happening September 13th and 14th in San Fancisco, CA and features speakers such as Kevin Rose (digg), Cal Henderson (Flickr), Tom Coates (Yahoo), and Mike Arrington (TechCrunch). Talks are generally about an hour long, and there will be tons of topics to choose from.

For complete information on the conference or to get your seat today, head over to the main conference site.

Community News: php/db|works Speakers Announce

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:31:10 -0500

This year's php|works / db|works conference is coming up in September, and the speakers have been chosen to give their talks. Several of them have also posted to this fact in their blogs:

Wez Furlong will be giving his "usual talk" on PDO as well as a brand new one covering "PHP and Mail: Best Practices"
Sara Goleman giving a three hour workshop on Extension writing and an hour in another talk covering PDO_User
Sebastian Bergmann presenting two talks - "Testing PHP Applications" and "The State of AOP in PHP"
Paul Jones on "Organizing Your PHP Project"

The rest of the schedule has also been posted, and includes other PHP notables such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Chris Shiflett, Paul Reinheimer, and Ilia Alshanetsky.

Trevor Lowing's Blog: Cluesheet - Tips for PHP Developers

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:12:32 -0500

Trevor Lowing, an attendee of the php|architect php|tek conference for this year has compiled a list of the things he learned and the people he met while at the conference, including links to various resources on each topic.
Got back today from thephp|tek Live 2006 conference sponsored by php|architect Magazine this week in Orlando and decided to compile a list of PHP tips to share. Many of the lectures are now available online.
The list is broken up into five different sections - Security, Preformance, Tools, New Technologies/Techniques, and the Speakers/Site/Blogs/Lecturers from the conference. Most of the items are just random bits from several of the talks that he attended, but still provide a great deal of information not only about the conference, but about the current state of PHP in general.

Community News: PHP Speakers Selected for OSCON 2006

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:41:11 -0600
The O'Reilly Open Source Conference for this year is getting closer and closer, and a few of the members of the PHP community have been selected to present their proposed talks for this year's edition.
The list so far includes:

David Sklar on web application dependencies
Adam Trachtenberg giving his talk on the "Dirty secrets of PHP 5's ext/soap extension"
Chris Shiflett (along with Geoff Young) covering PHP testing, including mentions of Apache-Test, Simple-Test, PHPUnit, and phpt

For more details or to sign up for the conference, visit their site and check out the long list of topics and tracks for this year's event.