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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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Final roundup: PHP Weekender is over
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:Description:
    The second day of the PHP Weekender is over now, too. We are happily
    looking back on a great event and I want to thank Benjamin Schwertfeger
    and Dave Kliczbor form the Computer Sience faculty of the University of
    Dortmund for their engagement. Beside that, we want to thank all the
    attendees and my fellows form the PHP Usergroup Dortmund for coming and
    making this event such a great success!

The second day of the PHP Weekender is over now, too. We are happily looking
back on a great event and I want to thank Benjamin Schwertfeger and Dave
Kliczbor form the `Computer Sience faculty`__ of the University of Dortmund
for their engagement. Beside that, we want to thank all the attendees and my
fellows form the `PHP Usergroup Dortmund`__ for coming and making this event
such a great success!

.. __: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-dortmund.de/dokuwiki/
.. __: http://phpugdo.de

Today at 9:30 `Kore`__ and me started the day with a 3 hour session about
"`PHP best practices`__". We enhanced our slides from `FrOSCon`__ this year
with a section about debugging and one on OOP in PHP. Right in time for lunch,
we finished the talk with about 60 satisfied and quite "knowledge filled up"
attendees.

.. __: http://kore-nordmann.de
.. __: http://talks.php.net/show/php-weekender
.. __: http://froscon.de

After lunch, we again splitted in 2 tracks. `Tobias Struckmeier`__ (most of
the time assisted by someone else) handled the 2nd introduction workshop,
which was actually the rest of the first workshop, since we had much too much
stuff for the attendees. In parallel, Kore and me stepped up again and gave an
overview on PHP 5s advanced OO features (like ArrayAccess and Iterator,
overloading and ObjectStorage). After that, Kore took over the stage on his
own and visualized his view on the topic "Enterprise PHP", which was a really
intressting talk. Last but not least, `Jakob Westhoff`__ introduced into
database abstraction and ORM. All talks went really well (thanks to factors
like really good equipment and absolutly brilliant preperation of all PHP UG
Dortmund members).

.. __: http://blog.brainsugar.de
.. __: http://westhoffswelt.de

We finally had a small closing key note, where we asked the attendees for
feedback. It was positive all over, although we had 2 small drawbacks: 1st we
did not have coffee for sale, which is actually a big no-no for any geek event
- I know. 2nd we started already at 9:00 a.m., which was quite early for a) a
weekend and b) for (mostly) students. We promise amendment for the next event!
;) After the offical part ended, we had a small key-signing party, where 15
people attended and I issued my first `CACert.org`__ assurances.

.. __: http://cacert.org

So, all in all I can say: We never expected the event to become such a great
success. Our first assumptions were around 20 attendees. After we saw the
registrations, we guessed to have around 50 attendees overall, which was
already suprising. In the end we had around 90 attendants on Saturday and
about 80 on Sunday. I hope the interesst in PHP in Dortmund stays at this
level and that some of the attendants will join our usergroup.

So long, 'till next time... :)

P.S. Slides and examples will follow on the `PHP Weekender website`__

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


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Trackbacks
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- Weekender talks online on Sun, 24 May 2009 13:01:12 +0200 in Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
  
  I put the talks from the PHP weekender online.


Comments
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- Thomas Koch at Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:00:06 +0200

  Du bist Dinslakener! Ich auch! Allerdings vom Theodor-Heuss. Ich warte
  sehnsüchtig auf den Upload der Vorträge vom Weekender. Welche Bibliothek
  hast Du nochmal für XMLRPC empfohlen?

  In der Zwischenzeit richte ich mir jetzt auch ein Blog ein. Um zu wissen,
  was bei den anderen gerade los ist, ist es anscheinend ideal.

  Bis demnächst, Thomas

- Toby at Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:12:20 +0200

  Hi Thomas!

  Ich empfahl PEAR::XML_RPC (http://pear.php.net/XML_RPC).

  Das mit dem Blog hab ich nicht ganz verstanden...

  Grüße in die Heimat! Toby