• Announcing the DPC12 CfP (and a Mobile Conference) January 26, 2012

    It's that time of year again; the Dutch PHP Conference has announced its dates (7-9th June 2012) and the call for papers is now open!

    This year, the conference expands into a new dimension with the addition of a new sister conference, the Dutch Mobile Conference, running alongside DPC. All attendees will get access to both events. The addition of an additional strand to the conference is a response to the situation as we see it in industry. Our clients need mobile solutions alongside their web applications, and developers increasingly work across both web and mobile disciplines.

    Call for Papers

    The calls for papers for both events are open now and we'd be delighted to hear from you. You don't necessarily need previous speaking experience (but tell us if you have), you just need a great topic - and for these events, the more technical, the better! The URLs you need to submit your talk are http://www.phpconference.nl/call-for-papers and http://www.mobileconference.nl/call-for-papers - we can't wait to see what you come up with, but you need to be quick! The calls for papers close on Tuesday 31st January.

    Come to the Conference!

    Hopefully you've been enjoying our DPCRadio series, where we share the recordings from last year's PHP conference (if not, you can catch up on the DPCRadio page). This year will be bigger and better than ever, and we are sure you'll love the new mobile elements of the event as well - so come and join us, 7th-9th June in sunny* Amsterdam!

    To follow along with the news from both events, follow our twitter accounts @DPCon and @DMConf.

    * sunshine not guaranteed

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  • DPC Radio: Advanced OO Patterns January 17, 2012

    Tobias Schlitt

    You already know Singleton, Signal/Observer, Factory and friends. But, which object oriented patterns are en vogue in the PHP world and how can you seize their power? This talk gives you an overview on Dependency Injection, Data Mapper and more OO patterns the PHP world talks about right know, using practical code examples.

    You can find Toby's slides under "Advanced OOP Patterns" here: http://qafoo.com/presentations.html

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  • Are You Making the Most of MySQL? January 5, 2012

    Here at Ibuildings, we encourage our developers to continue to develop themselves professionally and to gain relevant certifications. Most have the Zend PHP Certification (ZCE) and some have the Zend Framework Certification (ZFCE) and/or the MySQL Certifications. I have recently been working to gain the MySQL Certified Developer qualification which is taken as two exams; each one is an hour and a half and covering a wide range of topics relevant to developing applications with MySQL (there is a separate qualification for administrators). I found some of the course material pretty easy as I have used it repeatedly over the years but there was plenty that was fairly new to me; some features that I haven’t been using and haven't noticed other PHP developers using or talking about very much. Having learned more about them, I thought they were worth highlighting. I’ve enjoyed finding out about these features and look forward to using some of these elements such as subqueries, views and stored procedures effectively in future projects. (more...)

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