This year at the Dutch PHP Conference, we managed to capture some of our speakers on camera, and asked them about their talks and about the event itself. Read on for the video interview we did with Thijs Feryn - you can also get the audio from his talk PHP Through the Eyes of a Hoster which was published here on techPortal recently.
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Speaker:Thijs Feryn
Most PHP talks are given from the point of view of people who work on a project internally. These people are mostly developers, designers, project managers, QA's and there's even an occasional business man who shares his opinion on PHP. I would like to talk about PHP through the eyes of a hoster. Eventually a project is going to get hosted on the internet and in a lot of cases an external webhosting company will take care of that. As the support manager and open source evangelist of a large hosting company, I will bring you a story about how a hoster experiences the wonderful world of PHP, about what can go wrong for customers and about how a webhoster can solve these issues.
This tale describes everyday situations in 45 minutes where PHP is a blessing as well as a burden. This includes:
If you wish, you can also download the slides from this session
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Speaker:Melanie Rhianna Lewis
A web service is an API provided by a site that allows a remote application to access data and use functionality without having to 'act like a web browser'. Consumer devices, such as a smart phone, set top box or games console, often do not have a form factor that allows the easy use of an interactive web site but do allow the download of custom applications which use web services provided by such sites.
The talk will describe how a web service targeted at consumer devices can be implemented. It will look at the different methods of calling remote functionality such as SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON and restful services. It will also consider the limitations of consumer devices, memory restrictions, communications bandwidth restrictions, and so on that have to be considered when designing a web service aimed at consumer devices. Finally it will have a brief look at how to make a service secure.
Slides: http://www.cyberspice.org.uk/downloads/%20WebServicesForConsumerDevices-20100612.pdf
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Speaker: Derick Rethans
This session explain a certain set of design issues for library code that either is often extended, or created with extending and inheritance in mind. There are many ways how a library can be designed to make it both easier to test, as well as for external developers to consume and use. This presentation provides techniques for doing so.
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Speaker: Elizabeth Naramore
Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with - we take shortcuts to push out releases, we don't focus on quality, deadlines need to be met, quick fixes slowly become the standard. Whatever the reason, if we don't manage our technical debt (not unlike financial debt), before too long our applications are technically bankrupt, and we are forced to completely refactor and start anew.
In this talk, we will discuss what technical debt is, when it is acceptable and when it isn't, and strategies for effectively managing it, both on an independent and team level. We'll talk about how it affects the entire team and how to work through minimizing it, as well as working effectively as a team to address it.
(see also the slides from this talk: http://naramore.net/slides/DPC10-techdebt.pdf)
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Speaker: Ilia Alshanetsky
APC and Memcache both provide effective mechanism for caching data within PHP applications to improve performance and latency. This talk will cover when to use both of these tools to get the most of your apps and which workflows better suit each tool.
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Thorsten Rinne
Every PHP developer knows about Scrum, eXtreme Programming and Crystal Clear. But do you know how these methods fit in agile software development to release the software on time? The certified scrum master Thorsten Rinne will present a customer project where all these methods were used in the hard daily work. He will present short indtroductions for each method and will talk about pitfalls to the audience.
You can find Thorsten's slides here on slideshare
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