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Symfony Blog:
Join us at SymfonyLive USA 2018!
Jul 06, 2018 @ 16:46:22

On the Symfony blog they've made the announcement about the latest conference in their SymfonyLive series - Symfony Live USA 2018 - happening October 9th through 12th in San Francisco.

Never been at a SymfonyLive conference before? Join us at the SymfonyLive USA: it is a 4-day event, the only one dedicated to Symfony in the USA, where you can learn all the latest news about Symfony.

[...] The Call for Papers is still open for a few days, if you have any best practices, experience, tips, use case to share with the US Symfony community, think about submitting a talk proposal for the conference.

The conference also includes workshops, not just regular sessions showing how to get up and running with Symfony, extending the framework, best practices, and mastering design patterns. You can also pick up a ticket if you'd like to attend. Early Bird pricing ends July 8th (so hurry!)

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Link: https://symfony.com/blog/join-us-at-symfonylive-usa-2018

Symfony Blog:
SymfonyLive San Francisco: We’re back!
Dec 29, 2016 @ 17:15:50

On the Symfony blog there's an announcement about the return of SymfonyLive San Francisco, coming back after the unfortunate cancelation of SymfonyLive Chicago. SymfonyLive San Francisco will be October 19th and 20th at the Crunchyroll offices.

SymfonyLive is coming back, that’s right, back to our beloved San Francisco for a whole new chapter in our conference series for 2017 and we just had to share the news with you right away!

As some of you may remember, last year’s SymfonyLive Chicago was cancelled and we were pretty disappointed. But we didn’t let it get us down and in 2017 we’re coming back even stronger and setting up shop again!

We’re going to need your help to make this conference a huge success, so please SAVE THE DATE in next year’s calendar and, write in SymfonyLive San Francisco 2017 October 19th-20th!

The actual event will span from October 17th through 20th but the first two days of that will be training sessions, not regular conference talks. The website for the event isn't up yet but more information about the event will be coming soon including the opening of their Call for Papers. Keep an eye on the Symfony blog for more details as they are released.

tagged: symfonylive sanfrancisco usa october 2017 event conference announcement

Link: http://symfony.com/blog/symfonylive-san-francisco-we-re-back

Thijs Feryn:
Fabrizio Branca – Talking about Magento & living in the Bay Area
Nov 30, 2015 @ 18:27:07

Thijs Feryn has posted his latest in his series of video interviews during his travels to various conferences around the world. In his latest he talks with Fabrizio Branca about Magento and what it's like living in the (San Francisco) Bay Area.

I had the pleasure of having a great conversation with Fabrizio Branca. Fabrizio was born in Italy, raised in Germany and currently lives in the Bay Area, near San Francisco. He is a well-respected member of the Magento community and has a bunch of Magento modules to his name.

It comes as no surprise that the main subject of our conversation was about Magento. [...] Fabrizio works for AOE, a German-based company that focuses on open source software. It was actually thanks to AOE that Fabrizio and his family were able to move to San Francisco. He started a team out there and has been living in the Bay Area for a number of years now. We talk about that as well.

You can watch this latest episode either through his in-page video player, directly over on YouTube or for the more audio-minded, just the recording on Soundcloud

tagged: thijsferyn interview fabriziobranca magento sanfrancisco bayarea community

Link: http://blog.feryn.eu/2015/11/30/fabrizio-branca-talking-about-magento-living-in-the-bay-area/

Symfony Blog:
Finally out, discover the schedule for SymfonyLive San Francisco 2015!
Sep 16, 2015 @ 17:27:52

On the Symfony blog they've announce the schedule for SymfonyLive San Francisco at their 2015 event happening October 27th through 30th at the Crunchyroll offices in downtown San Francisco.

Today, we’re super happy to unveil the conference schedule. On October 29th and 30th, meet Yitzchok Willroth, Sarah Khalil, Jordi Boggiano, Ryan Weaver, Beau Simensen, Jessica Mauheran and Fabien Potencier, to name just a few. They will talk about their Symfony experience or about real user cases of Symfony they’ve come across. Listen to Nicolas Grekas who will be presenting Migrating to Symfony 3.0, Kevin Dunglas talking about Leveraging a cloud computing infrastructure to build high performance Symfony webapps and Jonathan Johnson speaking about Building a Symfony API to support Ember.js (or anything else).

There will also be pre-conference workshops (those happen on the 27th and 28th) about Mastering Symfony Forms, Migrating to Symfony 3.0 and more. Check out the full schedule for more information on the event and summaries of each of the sessions. You can also grab some tickets if you'd like to attend.

tagged: symfonylive15 sanfrancisco schedule announcement

Link: http://symfony.com/blog/finally-out-discover-the-schedule-for-symfonylive-san-francisco-2015

Voices of the ElePHPant:
Interview with Mike Stowe
Sep 10, 2014 @ 15:28:23

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released it's latest in its series of community member interviews. In this latest episode Cal interviews Mike Stowe, a developer evangelist at Mulesoft.

They talk some about the services that Mulesoft provides and how they're trying to branch out to various developer communities. They also talk some about another project Mike's been interested in: RAML (an API modeling language). They finish the episode with a mention of the San Francisco PHP User Group.

You can listen to this latest episode via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 for listening at your leisure. If you enjoy the interview, be sure to subscribe to their feed.

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Link: http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2014/09/09/interview-with-mike-stowe

Chris Jones:
Come and Join us in San Francisco this Week
Sep 23, 2013 @ 15:42:11

If you're going to be in the San Francisco area this week and are looking to absorb lots of great PHP + Oracle knowledge, Chris Jones invites you to stop by OpenWorld/JavaOne/MySQL Connect happening at the Moscone Center the 22nd through the 26th.

It's the week of the huge Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and MySQL Connect conferences in San Francisco. The week will be a blast with so many things happening. The easiest way to find sessions is to browse the Content Catalog.

He lists out several of the PHP-related sessions happening at this year's event including:

You can find out more information about the event on the main conference site.

tagged: sanfrancisco openworld javaone mysqlconnect conference

Link: https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/entry/come_and_join_us_in

Phil Sturgeon:
CICONF - Mission Complete
Aug 21, 2012 @ 15:24:21

In a new post to his site, Phil Sturgeon has a wrapup of CICONF (the CodeIgniter conference) that just finished in San Francisco:

This year the low-to-middle budget CodeIgniter Conference was held in San Francisco in a brilliant co-working space called Citizen Space. I didn't know at the time but this space is actually a partner of New Work City, the venue for CICON2011, so it was great to "keep it in the family".

He goes on to talk about some of the speakers that were at the even and gives summaries of the sessions as they were given. Topics included Paas (PagodaBox, specifically), Chef, Varnish, RESTful APIs and productivity with the CI framework. If you weren't able to attend, you can find slides and some videos of the event posted on its Lanyrd page.

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Symfony Blog:
Symfony Live San Francisco 2012: The Schedule
Jun 25, 2012 @ 15:15:24

The Symfony Blog has posted about the schedule for this year's Symfony Live San Francisco being posted:

The schedule for the Symfony Live conference in San Franscico has just been published. For the first time in the US, Symfony developers will be able to take the Symfony certification exam on September 29th. You can already register.

They're also still looking for sponsors for the event if you'd like to help out. You can also go purchase a ticket if you know you'd like to attend this year's event (September 26th through 29th in San Francisco, CA).

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Phil Sturgeon's Blog:
CodeIgniter Conference 2012 SF
May 31, 2012 @ 16:58:05

Phil Sturgeon has posted a reminder about this year's CodeIgniter Conference San Francisco for 2012, happening August 11th and 12th at the Citizen Space.

So only two months until the return of CICONF to America! Last year was CICONF2011 NY which was a great experience. There we announced the availability of CodeIgniter on GitHub, released CodeIgniter 2.1-dev and saw over 50 pull requests get made to CodeIgniter by developers trying to win my iPad. Then we had CICONF2012 in London, and now it's off to San Francisco for more CodeIgniter nerdery.

He also mentions speakers that will be presenting at the event including Aaron Kuzemchak, Calvin Froedge and Kenny Katzguru. He'll also be speaking, giving a session (no update on what it'll be about though).

If you're interested in attending the event, you can find out more information on the conference site (and order your tickets!)

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Job Posting:
Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Senior Software Developer (San Francisco, CA)
May 18, 2012 @ 12:22:40

Company Wikimedia Foundation
Location San Francisco, CA
Title Senior Software Developer
Summary

Be a part of a newly forming team that will be tasked to entice new authors to Wikipedia. You will create responsive UI-driven software components in a highly iterative environment to support user engagement experimental features for Wikimedia websites using JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5 and PHP.

Some of the projects you’ll work on:

  • Develop new experimental editor engagement features for Wikimedia sites.
  • Extend MediaWiki software to support new experimental features.
  • Participate in periodic technology meetings for design, development and testing of experimental features.
  • Scrum master for development team.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of web development experience, including front-end development (JavaScript/jQuery/HTML5/CSS3), and server-side development using PHP/MySQL.
  • 5+ years experience with rapid iterative software development processes, ability to quickly grasp requirements, derive UI workflow and develop functionality.
  • Experience deploying code into high transaction volume production environments.
  • Experience with A/B testing, cross-browser testing, debugging.
  • Knowledge of Agile Methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). ScrumMaster training preferred.
  • Familiarity with version control systems/continuous integration tools (we use Git/Gerrit/Jenkins).
  • Must be able to meet aggressive timelines, iterate rapidly, and switch rapidly across multiple projects.
  • Strong communication skills: Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively; have strong written and oral communication skills as well as be able to collaborate easily within a cross-functional team.
  • B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field preferred.

Extra Points if you have:

  • Experience with MediaWiki and other open source PHP-based content management systems
  • Experience in the Wikipedia community
  • Experience contributing to a major Open Source project
  • Understanding of free culture / free software /open source
  • Experience working with online volunteers.
  • Experience with wikis and participatory production environments.
  • Good sense of humor
  • Being creative, highly motivated, hard-working and ability to work effectively in multiple cultural contexts are great assets
  • Comfortable working in an open, highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment

Please provide URLs to any existing open source software work you may have done (your own software or patches to other packages) if possible. We’d love to see what you can do!

About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 482 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 21 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects. It currently employs 130 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 38 countries or regions.

To apply, submit your information here (Jobvite)

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