Entries from PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones tagged with 'conference'

And Now to ZendCon 2009!

Phew! The Oracle OpenWorld conference is: wrapped up. Check me out on video. Now onto ZendCon down at the other end of Silicon Valley. My ZendCon talk is on Tuesday afternoon. In what seems just the last few weeks a...

Oracle OpenWorld starts today!

If you have an interest in dynamic language programming here are the Oracle sessions to attend. There are also unconference sessions happening - check out the OTN area for details on each day. Conference Sessions S311373 Agile Web Development: Ruby/Rails...

Come to PHP Code|Works - you'll regret missing it

Hey there! Kuassi Mensah and I will be presenting at the upcoming PHP Code|Works conference tour, which kicks off later this month. Code|Works is the latest generation of conference from the folk who, amongst other things, present the excellent PHP|Tek...

Keeping Web Applications Lean and Mean at Dutch PHP Conference

I'm really looking forward to the Dutch PHP conference this week. Robert Brouwer from Oracle Netherlands is talking on Friday at 11:45 about Keeping Web Applications Lean and Mean. The need for monitoring is something that comes up all the...

PHP Brasil '08 - Trip Report

Last week's PHP Brasil '08 conference was held at the "UNIFIEO" University in Osasco, a region of São Paulo. São Paulo is a large, busy center of commerce. People work hard. Everyone at the conference seemed to have multiple jobs...

My PHP Brazilian of the Year

There is a lot happening around PHP in Brazil - there were 10 concurrent tracks at the PHP Brasil '08 conference in São Paulo last week. Brazilian PHP users are - and can become further - involved with many PHP...

Oracle Heading to PHP Conference Brasil '08

It's a conference with a difference: PHP Brasil '08 is on next week. Yours truly will be presenting an extended session on Friday. My colleague Todd Trichler will also be in town to help present one of our great "InstallFests"...

OOW 2008 Wrap Up Days 2 to N

I should wrap up my OOW conference coverage. As you could predict from my pre-posts about the conference schedule we had some interesting sessions. I was extremely pleased to meet the guys from Community Connect who gave an excellent presentation...

Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Day 1 (Sunday) Wrap

The PHP Hands-On-Labs went smoothly today. What a pleasant feeling! There was great interest - all but two seats had been pre-booked for the first lab - and lots of studious work done. I look forward to being able to...

Ruby on Rails at OOW

When talking to Raimonds Simanovskis the other week, I convinced him to sign up to give an OpenWorld Unconference session. Raimonds is the maintainer of the enhanced Oracle Adapter for Rails so this session should be excellent. His talk "Using...

PHP Quebec 2009 Call for Papers is Open

With ZendCon next week and Oracle OpenWorld the week after, you might soon get inspired to present your own pet topic. It's easy(ish) and fun to share knowledge. The "stuff" you're playing with deserves a bigger audience. Conferences are an...

Oracle Conference PHP Hands-on-labs are on Sunday 21st September 2008

This year there are two PHP Hands-on-labs at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, teaching about building PHP Web applications. We provide computers set up all ready for you to use. You can turn up, log in, and learn about this thing...

See you at ZendCon

In the past three years, ZendCon has become a big event in the PHP calendar of North America. This year Zend have in-sourced its event management, allowing their knowledge of the community to come through. The conference is next week...