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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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A great success: PHP Weekender day 1
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:Description:
    The first day of the PHP Weekender (the free-of-charge, 2-day PHP event
    organized by the PHP Usergroup Dortmund) just comes to an end and we are
    heading out for the social event. All in all, I have to say, it is a
    fantastic event and we are really happy about its success.

The first day of the `PHP Weekender`__ (the free-of-charge, 2-day PHP event
organized by the `PHP Usergroup Dortmund`__) just comes to an end and we are
heading out for the social event. All in all, I have to say, it is a fantastic
event and we are really happy about its success.

.. __: http://weekender.phpugdo.de
.. __: http://phpugdo.de

In the moring we had a 3 hour introductional session, where `Jakob Westhoff`__
and `Peter Koch`__ introduced pure PHP newbes to the concepts of web
application development (requests, GET/POST variable handling,...), the PHP
syntax, basic database and file handling and some more. They had about 50
attendees, which equals more or less the number of registered attendees for
that session. Both had a very good feeling about their talk and the attendees
were absolutly satisfied.

.. __: http://westhoffs-welt.de
.. __: http://pawncase.de

After a great Pizza lunch (which was generously sponsored by an anonymous
sponsor), the second track started. While `Jakob Westhoff`__ created a simple
to-do application with about 25 attendees in track 1, `Jörg Sprung`__ started
of with an introduction to PHPs XML handling functions with above 50
attendees. Both groups stayed at this rate during the whole evening, where the
workshop ended up in the first stage of a working application. The second
track was continued by `myself`__, with a track about SOA (basically SOAP,
XML-RPC and REST in PHP) and a session about console scripting by `Tobias
Struckmeier`__.

.. __: http://westhoffs-welt.de
.. __: http://www.eddata.de
.. __: http://schlitt.info
.. __: http://blog.brainsugar.de

We are looking back on a very successful first day of the PHP Weekender and we
are looking forward to the second day, where we will continue with 2 other
great tracks:

Track 1:

- PHP best practices (OOP, debugging, security, performance)
- PHP advanced workshop

Track 2:

- The PHP OO Candy Store (cool OO development in PHP)
- Enterprise PHP (NCC-1701-A)
- Database abstraction (Handler-, SQL-, Object-Abstraction)

So, if you did not register, yet: The University of Dortmund gracefully
sponsored large rooms and you can just turn around. :)


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- PHP Weekender on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:53:13 +0200 in Manuel Pichler
  
  Am vergangenen Wochenende waren ein Kollege und ich beim PHP Weekender.
  Einer erklassigen Veranstaltung rundum PHP und die eZ Components :-), mit
  Workshops und Vorträgen, die in den Räumlichkeiten des Fachbereichs
  Informatik der Universität Dortmund.


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