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Why you should attend DayCamp4Developers conference

Posted March 4, 2012 by
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DC4DYesterday was already the 4th episode of DayCamp4Developers, titled “Business 101″. The whole conference was focussed on running your internet technology business with 6 great speakers: Lorna Jane Mitchel, Jacques Woodcock, Thursday Bram, Tara Aaron, John Mertic and Paul M. Jones.

First things first: it was a great conference organized by my dear friend Cal Evans and the beauty is that this conference is completely online! Thanks Cal for organizing this kind of conference as it brings knowledge closer and affordable to everyone. And thanks to the sponsors Cal is able to set it up. So if you’re a business, think about supporting this conference as it offers so much information for everyone working in the internet industry.

With Lorna’s talk “Time and Money” I was immediately introduced to new tools like Harvest to keep track of my time, but I also got a confirmation I was doing a good job managing my tasks in my calendar.

Jacques’ talk “So you want to be self employed” was a great talk I want to see on stage at a Tech conference somewhere as Jacques could bring this subject in such a way you kept listening and forgot to make notes. And I agree with him, being an entrepreneur requires you to seize opportunities and take some risks.

Thursday’s talk “Planning your business for the long term” was an interesting talk that emphasized the importance of thinking ahead and plan how your business is going to evolve.

Most impressive talk was given by Tara called “Put it in writing”. She was a non-technical speaker, and had a hard challenge talking about contracts, legal issues and agreements. But she did a magnificent job! Even though this talk was focussed on the US market, there were a lot of pointers given that are valuable international.

John’s talk about “Is it good for the company” was a great talk with a lot of references to Office Space.

Closing the day was Paul’s talk about “Career and Life Management” where the topic was raised about insurances, task management and combining career with a personal life.

All by all this conference shared a lot of wisdom and knowledge, provided by great speakers.

PHPBenelux Conference 2012 Review

Posted January 31, 2012 by
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PHPBenelux Conference 2012 is over and we’re back in our daily routine of working, but this time we can do our work better with new insights, great tools and best practices that all were explained during this conference.

In short: it was a really great conference!!! For those who missed it, make sure you get your ticket for next year as the organization had done more than their best to combine great speakers with valued content, mixing serious business with awesome social events and had gone beyond any reach to give attendees, speakers, sponsors and staff of the venue a VIP feeling. Kudos to the organization as they pulled of the best tech-conference in years.

As a sponsor, we were very pleased to be part of this event and are already reserving budget for next year as we believe it’s the place to be at if you’re serious about PHP. The individual call-out of sponsors is a unique moment that we (and other sponsors) really appreciated.

Two days of PHP goodness, how can one even start to describe the atmosphere at the event. I think the post-conference video footage does a great job summarizing the event. See for yourself.

To the PHPBenelux crew, thank you to be a part of this experience! You guys ROCK!

Speaking at FeWeb this December

Posted November 29, 2011 by
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FeWebFeWeb is organizing it’s annual conference “FeWeb Fullscreen” and I’m delighted to be invited to talk about “11 pro tips for smooth deployment of web applications”.

In this talk I’m going to point out 11 pro tips that will make your deployment of web applications to production a smooth ride without stress, even when things end up not as expected.

FeWeb Fullscreen

Don’t miss this event as it’s the best place to stay updated on the industry, learn about new regulations and meet other professionals.

PHPBenelux Conference 2012 Ticket Sales

Posted November 16, 2011 by
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In an article today, PHPBenelux announced today they have opened their Early Bird ticket sale for the PHPBenelux Conference 2012 in january 2012.

Already showing an impressive list of 4 tutorial speakers, and more speaker names to be announced in the coming weeks, makes this event already a “must attend” kind of event.

Looking back at previous years, the PHPBenelux team already has shown the world they can give a great conference and I know they will even surpass their achievements with their upcoming conference in 2012. That’s why in2it vof is proudly sponsoring this event.

So, block your agenda for January 27 and 28, 2012 and buy your tickets while they’re still cheap and hot!!! And for those of you who live on the other side of the Atlantic… push harder on your boss to have you come over. It’s well worth the investment!!!

DayCamp 4 Developers #3 – Project management

Posted August 24, 2011 by
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DC4DMy dear friend Cal Evans is a brilliant mind but more importantly, he knows a lot of folks who are also very smart in their domain. And one day, Cal just said: “I’m going to organize a conference everyone is able to attend”. So how is this possible? Well, it’s a complete online event. So no traveling involved, no delays at airports, not having to spend a night in a hotel. Nope, just relaxing in the comfort of wherever you are. Either at home, at the office, on a beach in sunny Spain, at the ISS orbiting the world… it doesn’t matter. Just as long you have a link with the internet, you’re good to go.

And Cal wouldn’t be this great mind if he didn’t pick the right topics. This conference is all about project management, something Cal has been doing for a long, very long time (wonder if I was already born). But instead of sharing his own knowledge and wisdom on this topic, he has picked the best crew he could find in this universe: Brian Prince, Thursday Bram, Rob Allen, Keith Casey, Elizabeth Naramore and last but not least Paul M. Jones. That’s what I call wonderful management, just delegate it.

So project management. What is it all about? Can anyone become a project manager? What are the best tricks a project manager must know to be a good manager? All these and many more questions will be answered during this one day online event: “DayCamp4Developers, Invest a day in your career”.

Hang on, how much does this event cost? Well, it’s just US$ 40 (or € 28)! Can you believe this? And if you are with a bunch of people, it’s only US$ 100 (or € 69)!!! So if you can find 3 people, you’re already making a profit here on really low prices.

In order to keep these prices low for you to attend and to support Cal in getting these bright minds on board, in2it vof is happy to announce that we’re sponsoring this event as we see it a really good investment.

Wait no longer! Get yourself a really cheap ticket for a day of high quality contents and invest just a day in your career. It’s well worth the money and your time. Order Now!!!

Quality Assurance on PHP projects – PHPLint

Posted July 15, 2011 by
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Michelangelo van Dam has published on his blog an article about the usage of PHP Lint, the build-in syntax checker of PHP. This article is the first of a series on Quality Assurance for PHP projects.

“PHP Lint is probably the easiest way to validate your code on syntax errors, but it’s also the most overlooked feature of PHP on command line.”

In this article Michelangelo explains the usage of PHP Lint (php -l) and how you can easily set it up to validate code before you send it to your revision control system. He also includes an example of the pre-commit hook for Git and Subversion.

Integrating QA in PHP projects

Posted June 17, 2011 by
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PHP has turned 16 this year, and besides the occasional teenage riot it creates it’s also becoming mature. With that maturity comes a lot of responsibility as PHP now drives businesses dealing with billions of Euros.

In the past 3 years quality assurance (QA) has become increasingly important to PHP developers and CI was considered a “must do” principle. But even today there’s still confusion on how to set things up and get started with automated QA processes.

That’s why I ended up with my presentation “Continuous QA” where I explain some of the most important QA tools PHP has to offer, how you integrate them in a phing build script to finally let Jenkins-ci take over the whole process.

Continuous Quality Assurance

Zend Framework Unit Testing PHPBenelux

Posted May 6, 2011 by
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Last Wednesday I had a blast with the folks of PHPBenelux and DataFlow where I was sharing the floor with Tom Van Herreweghe who talked about Client-side Javascript Unit Testing.

I gave a presentation about unit testing Zend Framework applications and showed the audience how easy it is to start testing their code.

If you attended this meeting, please leave constructive feedback on Joind.in (http://joind.in/3381)

My slides are on slideshare, but you can also find them here below. If you have further questions regarding this talk or you would like to know more about unit testing your Zend Framework applications, contact me using our contact form.

Unit testing with zend framework PHPBenelux

License plate recognition in Turnhout Belgium

Posted April 8, 2011 by
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For the past two years we’re working for Macq nv in Brussels on a project that recognizes license plates in the Police Zone of Turnhout (Belgium).

The software allows police officers to detect speed violations, stolen or wanted vehicles, investigate forbidden traffic in designated parts of the city and more.

This project was produced for Belgacom/Telindus and they released a promotional video on YouTube regarding this product.

Note: This video is in Dutch

Interview at confoo.ca

Posted March 22, 2011 by
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