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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
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- PHPUGDO - Different presentations

  Yesterday evening was the second meeting I attended of the PHP user group
  Dortmund. Sadly we've only been 5 people, although there are currently 12
  members on the mailinglist. Since we wanna start some kind of useful project
  with the group members (what project this will be is not ready for the
  public, yet) and have a huge variaty of states of knowledge in the group, we
  decided to have an educational session in our next meeting. All of the 5
  attendants from yesterday took a topic to prepare a little presentation
  (30-45 minutes) for the next meeting (in 2 weeks, 5th of May).

- Being a "Zend Certified Engineer"

  I recently received my results from the Zend Certification Exam and
  (luckily) I passed it. So, from now on, I can call myself a "Zend Certified
  Engineer". Nice. :)

- PHP Usergroup Dortmund

  The next meeting is planned for the upcoming Thursday (21st of April) again
  at the Teachforce GmbH Office (Martener Str. 539) in Dortmund.

- I love WiFi!

  I really love it: I'm currently sitting around in a car repair shop and have
  to wait for about 2 hours for my car to be repaired. Dead time you think?
  Not really, since a T-Online-Hostspot is available. :) I wish there would be
  WiFi all around the world... And maybe even a bit cheaper! ;)

- This really is a scandal

  Take this as compassion to Davey and his friends and as a first try getting
  links together for his blog entry to get a better page rank.

- PHP Conference Quebec ending

  Yesterday was the last day of the PHP Conference Quebec 2005. Luckily, I
  will stay until sunday and therefore I had the chance to take part in some
  exciting events organized by the PHP Quebec people. The main conference was
  pretty much as every other one. It mainly consisted of hacking some stuff,
  talking to all those speakers and attendants and of course of holding my
  second session. So, business as usual, of course.

- Zend certification - First try... ;)

  Zend is sponsoring the PHP Conference Quebec 2005 and forethat they offer
  free Zend Certification for visitors and speakers. Since it's free, I tried
  passing it (mostly for fun) without any kind of preperation (neither example
  exam, nor the certification guide). Would be cool if that worked, although
  it's been quite a challange in some way.

- PEAR 1.4 is dead - PEAR 2.0 to come

  In an inofficial meeting the PEAR Group decided on the future of PEAR today.
  The main problem with PEAR is the BC topic and that therefore the migration
  of PEAR to PHP5 is pretty slow. To not be bound to their own rules, the PEAR
  community retired the release of PEAR 1.4 (which has been in alpha phase
  right now) in favor of starting a complete redesign for the PEAR installer
  which will be PEAR 2.0.

- Quebec - 3rd day

  Yesterday was my 3rd day here in Montreal and the first pre-conference day
  of the PHP Conference Quebec, where the tutorials/workshops took place. I
  held my PEAR workshop before noon, and indeed, it went really well. People
  were highly interested in the project and our packages and the conversation
  situation was quite good. The slides and examples are available here or in a
  couple of minutes from the PEARWeb support section.

- Charge for Linuxtag entrance

  The Linuxtag e.V. recently announced that for this years Linuxtag a charge
  will be have to paid for entrance. One day will cost 15,- €, 2 days
  25,- € and all 3 days 35,- €. Members of the open source
  community should be granted free entrance, in the way, that the exhibiting
  projects will receive a certain amount of free tickets. The organizers of
  Linuxtag explain their decision for an entrance charge inside an open letter
  (German) to the open source community.