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18 / 12 / 09
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Unlike popular belief it is not necessary to pick a single framework for a PHP project. On the contrary, it is quite easy to use more than one for your next project. The flexibility of PHP and the currently popular PHP frameworks allows an easy and close integration with each other. During this [...]
18 / 12 / 09
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A Parser is an integral part when building a Domain Specific Language or file format parser, such as our example usage case: the Ical format. This session will cover the general concept about tokenizing and parsing into a data structure, as well as going into depth about how to keep the memory footprint [...]
18 / 12 / 09
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A beginners guide to Object Oriented programming using PHP. This will be covering the very basics of OO including design, syntax, structures and methodologies.
13 / 10 / 09
Here are the slides we have so far from the speakers at PHP North West 2009. This post will be edited to add the remaining slide decks as we get them.
Saturday: Main Schedule
SPL: Not a Bridge Too Far – Michelangelo Vam Dam
Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World – Lorna Jane Mitchell
The beauty [...]
07 / 10 / 09
We’ve got things happening in a few different places for PHP North West this weekend, so here’s a post to help everyone find their way around!
Times and Locations
Friday night, 7-11pm
The Lass O’ Gowrie
36 Charles Street
Manchester
M1 7DB
Saturday – 9am til late (official program ends 18:30)
Manchester Conference Centre
Weston Building
Sackville Street
Manchester
M1 3BB
Sunday Morning 9am til 1pm
Museum of Science [...]
05 / 10 / 09
At PHPNW09 we’ll be using joind.in to give feedback to our speakers on their sessions. We used this last year and the response was rather good, and we’re hoping to do better again this year. Your feedback lets the speakers and organisers know what you enjoyed and what you didn’t – so make [...]
04 / 10 / 09
For any attendees that are around the night before, there is a social venue booked for folks to meet up and start networking. This is in ‘The Salmon Rooms’ at the Lass O’Gowrie on Charles Street, Manchester – which is only a few hundred yards from the conference centre. They have free WiFi and will [...]
25 / 09 / 09
We are delighted to announce the final two speakers added to our Sunday schedule, to be held at MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) on Sunday morning, 11th October. These are Ben Scholzen, who will be speaking about “Tokens and Lexemes”, and Juliette Reinders Folmer who will tell us about UTF-8. All of [...]
The Call for Papers has now closed, we're filling in speakers and slots as we confirm them - see the schedule for the latest information.