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PHPNW10 Keynote: Lorna Mitchell: Teach a Man to Fish: Coaching Development Teams

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. so goes the famous Chinese proverb, and the same principle applies elsewhere in life. In development teams, we often recruit to fill skills gaps or to increase our output, which is time-consuming and expensive and isnt always necessary. In this session well look at strategies for enabling our existing teams to perform better, by seeking and sharing knowledge, skills and processes.

There will be practical approaches for building an efficient, self-improving, sustainable team from the materials at hand your existing team! If you are a manager, technical lead, or aspire to improve yourself as a developer then you can look forward to some new ideas from this session.

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PHPNW10: Rob Allen: Zend Framework 2.0 is coming!

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
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With Zend Framework 2.0 in active development and coming soon, this session will look at the goals of ZF2 along with whats new and whats different with ZF2 compared to ZF1.
Well take a look at the new ways that components are referenced now that namespaces exist along with a look at the new features of individual components that make development easier, with code samples to explain how to do it the new way.
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We Made History?

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Well PHPNW10 may be consigned to history but we hope it made a lasting impact on you and if you didn’t manage to get along then the video recordings will be coming along shortly.

From all the feedback we have received it was certainly worth all the effort on our part as the organisers and we were pleased at the take up of tickets and that we sold out!

We have been truly  amazed at the comments many of you have been making and this one from a speaker sums them all up!

“But I cannot emphasize the wonderful experience I had during phpnw10…

Again, thank you for this opportunity to speak at what I call the best community conference of Europe!

It was a true delight and a real pleasure seeing you all again.”

We hope this was your experience and we would love your comments as to whether we should put on PHPNW11 in a larger venue? If so, what part could you play in promoting it? For example, if you could all bring a friend we would need a venue twice the size! Rise to the challenge!

Once again we are grateful to all our sponsors and particularly our Premier Sponsor Magma Digital for all their support and we hope to have them all on board in the coming year.

Photographs taken at the conference can be found on Flickr and at other places around the web.

Thanks to our speakers for providing such good content. The presentations were very well received with lots of good feedback on the speakers. If you haven’t yet rated the talks that you attended, please do so on JoindIn.

We look forward to seeing you all next year. Thanks for coming along and your support.

SOLD OUT !!!

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago we anticipated that this would happen.

We now have no tickets left which is another way of saying the venue is completely full.

We may have some cancellations so don’t give up trying if you would still like to come!

We are looking forward to a great event and already we have Speakers “in the air”.

The conference team are busily getting everything ready for transfer to the conference centre tomorrow.

If you are travelling by car please allow time to accommodate the closure of the A57M “Mancunian Way” from 6.00am Saturday and if you are travelling by train there are overnight engineering works affecting lines up and down the country. More details can be found on the National Rail website.

If you have any last minute queries join us using IRC #phpnw on freenode.

Hope to see you there Friday night or Saturday.