There are many networking events,
but I find that the best ones are
Web conferences
It is where you meet other geeks like you, book publishers, great contacts at some of the biggest companies, contributors to your favorite open source projects, potential start-up partners and the list goes on.
We are pleased to to unveil the schedule for the ConFoo conference. With over 130 presentations in 8 rooms, ConFoo brings you the best of web development. Note that the early bird price is available only until January 22nd.
Over 100 specialists will be present at the conference to share their knowledge during talks and training. Among them will be:
You would not want to miss the following presentations:
Register online before January 22nd and save 200$! http://confoo.ca/en/register
Looking forward to see you at the conference.
One of my computers has MAMP installed. I was trying to build a database schema from a YAML file. When time came to insert the SQL using…
>php symfony doctrine:insert-sql
the following error message appeared:
>Couldn’t locate driver named mysql
MySQL worked fine on this computer for many years so a missing driver was out of the question. After some thinking I realized that the command “php” actually refers to OS X version of php and not the one that ships with MAMP. Since I was too lazy to properly configure the extensions for the OS X version, I simply pointed the “php” command to the MAMP version using the following line:
>alias php=’/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php’
I ran the symfony command again and it worked perfectly!
(photo by Marco Tabini)
I had the pleasure to attend php|tek this year in Chicago. This conference was organized by php|architect.
I attended some very interesting presentations such as “Dissecting an MVC Application”, “Alternate Databases”, “Of Haystacks and Needles” and “Seven Steps to Better OOP Code”. I enjoyed the Pecha Kucha presentations. These were very short presentations on topics not always related to PHP. I liked the one by Scott MacVicar and Andrei Zmievski on spelling.
I also met many interesting people with whom I intend to stay in touch. Wade Arnold, author of Zend_AMF, should be expecting feature requests and patches from DevBots. There were many interesting discussions around best practices between the presentations.
I was also able to catch up with my international friends that I don’t get to see very often. We celebrated Chris Shiflett’s birthday by going to a Peruvian restaurant and enjoying a great variety of beer at the Map Room, in the company of Andrei Zmievski, Sean Coates and Scott MacVicar. I enjoyed the event so much that I stayed an extra day to visit Downtown Chicago with Stefan Priebsh, Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts and David Zuelke. I posted some pictures to Flickr.
The only negative comment that I would like to share is the fact that WiFi was very unreliable during the event. I ended up paying to use the hotel’s WiFi every day to stay in touch with the office.
My next stop is ZendCon in San Jose, California.
I recorded part of the Flex and Zend presentation by Kevin Hoyt (took me some time to transfer, encode and upload).
ZIP with the source code
Kevin Hoyt’s blog post on this topic
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