The second annual PHPBenelux Conference is taking place on January 28 and 29 at the same location as last year: Hotel Ter Elst in Edegem (Antwerp, Belgium). We were able to secure an awesome schedule with three tracks, 1.5 days of conference and a tutorial morning. The schedule has been announced for most part of it and also the ticket sales are well underway.
Friday morning: tutorials
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | Track 4 |
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| 08h30-09h00 | Registration and welcome coffee/tea | |||
| 09h00-12h30 | Workshop Caching and tuning fun for high scalability by Wim Godden |
Workshop Real world Quality Assurance, unit testing, code review by (TBA) SOLD OUT |
Workshop Developing search applications with Apache Solr & PHP by Paul Borgermans SOLD OUT |
Workshop MySQL performance tuning by Geert Vanderkelen |
| 12h30-13h00 | Lunch for workshop attendees (end of tutorials) | |||
Friday afternoon: conference
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | |
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| 12h00-13h00 | Registration & welcome for conference attendees | |||
| 13h00-14h00 | Opening Keynote: 27 Ways To Be A Better Developer Ivo Jansch and Lorna Mitchell |
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| 14h10-15h10 | Geolocation & Maps in PHP (Derick Rethans) |
Scrum in the wild (Mike Van Riel) |
Testing untestable code (Stephan Hochdörfer) |
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| 15h10-15h40 | Break | |||
| 15h40-16h40 | Zeta components (Tobias Schlitt) |
Making Software Management Tools Work For You (John Mertic) |
Technical Debt (Elizabeth Naramore) |
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| 16h50-17h50 | Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services (David Zülke) |
Why Service Oriented Architecture Is A Good Thing (Jan Willem Eshuis) |
PHP in a mobile ecosystem (Ivo Jansch) |
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| 18h00-18h50 | Platinum sponsor keynote | |||
| 18h50-20h00 | Snacks/sandwiches/drinks | |||
| 20h00-23h00 | Conference social: bowling in the venue! | |||
Saturday January 29th
Second day of conference. Please note that the timings indicated below are not final yet.
The language for the talks is English.
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08h30-09h00 | Registration and welcome coffee/tea | ||
| 09h00-10h00 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 10h10-11h10 | Charsets & Encoding (Kore Nordmann) |
Doctrine Framework (Markus Franz) |
TBA |
| 11h10-11h40 | Break | ||
| 11h40-12h40 | Zend framework 2.0: What’s New And What’s Changed? (Rob Allen) |
PHP in the dark (Jeroen Keppens) |
XML versus the New Kids On The Block (David Zülke) |
| 12h40-13h40 | LUNCH | ||
| 13h40-14h40 | Varnish, the high performance valhalla? (Jeroen Van Dijk) |
Advanced CouchDB (Sander van de Graaf) |
Mastering namespaces in PHP (Nick Belhomme) |
| 14h50-15h50 | Project Triage & Recovery (Keith Casey) |
How to build customizable multitenant web applications (Stephan Hochdörfer) |
Benchmarking Applications and Frameworks (Paul Jones) |
| 15h50-16h10 | Break | ||
| 16h40-17h40 | Closing keynote: Elizabeth Naramore | ||
| 17h40 & onwards | Raffles, stay to get a chance to win goodies and prizes Closing remarks |
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You can order your tickets at http://shop.phpbenelux.eu
We hope to see you again in Antwerp!
January 7, 2011
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