Last weekend I had the privilege to attend the fifth and final TrueNorthPHP in Toronto, Ontario. This was my third and hadn't realized there were only five altogether! I think this says a lot about this conference as it had always felt to me like it had been around much …
For the third year in a row I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Symfony Live! London. My First Keynote The talk I gave ("Unglue all the things!") was selected as the opening keynote. My first! I was excited and anxious but I think I handled it well. Truth be …
I recently wrote about the fear and anxiety I feel with events that involve being put on a bus with a bunch of peers for any length of time. The fear of course comes down to, "what if I have to stop a bus full of all of these people …
I'm on the plane back from Dutch PHP Conference 2015 and I am still kind of shocked at how quickly the time went! I had a blast and am happy that I have the time to reflect on it right away! I arrived Wednesday afternoon and got myself all checked in. …
I was happy to be a part of php[tek] again this year. I presented a tutorial, "Managing Dependencies with Composer", and I was a part of the "Open-source Summit" on Wednesday night. The tutorial went very well. There was a relatively small number of people who attended it but I think …
Last year Jordi tried to get me to submit to phpDay and I wasn't able to. I decided to give it a go this year and was super excited to be selected to give a brand new talk ("Hello, PSR-7.") and a brand new tutorial ("Event Sourcing and CQRS with …
Much to my delight, I was selected to speak at PHP Tour Luxembourg this year! This event was special as it was the very first time AFUP threw an event outside of France. Luxembourg itself was quite lovely and of all the places I've been since I've started speaking abroad …
One of the talks that I went to at Midwest PHP was Yitzchok Willroth's Getting off the Freelance Roller-Coaster. I talked about it in my Midwest PHP 2015 Recap and discussed it on That Podcast Episode 17: The one where The Force Awakens. It has become all that much more …
Last week I drove down to Chicago with Bec and Luke so that they could have fun in Chicago for a day while I attended MidCamp 2015. The theme this year was Alice and Wonderland so it had a nickname this year: MadCamp. I'm not what you would call a …
This weekend I attended my second Midwest PHP conference. I was excited to be asked to speak again this year! With the exception of Madison PHP conference, this is the first conference that I've been asked to speak at more than once1! My family is fortunate enough to have the privilege …
After just short of three years, PHP-FIG has finally put an HTTP related PSR up for vote. Many thanks to everyone who has put so much work into this PSR! Member projects, review the proposal (and associated meta) and cast your vote! …
At long last PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface (meta) is finally up for review! I've been tracking this since Benjamin Eberlei sent his first pull request for what he considered at the time a proposal for a HTTP client close to three years ago. This one has been a long …
There are few conferences that I hear past attendees rave about more than PHPBenelux. Because of this, I had my expectations set very high when I was invited to speak at PHPBenelux 2015. I was informed that I would be picked up at the airport by Thijs Feryn which made me …
The Wisdom of the ElePHPant project is officially live! I'll be bringing a few to each of Midwest PHP and php[tek] later this year. Mine will be sporting a variety of #ossart, That Podcast, and Sculpin customizations. At the end of last year I was invited to help out with a …
I'm still pretty new to the conference speaking scene, but pretty early on found that I have a love/hate relationship with one of the "perks" that comes from being a speaker: the speaker dinner. Not all conferences do something special for the speakers in the form of a group dining/drinking experience. …
Well, that went about as well as can be expected. One whole post in 2014. Awesome. This year is already off to a better start. Mostly because I've been blogging in a few other places. I've started putting posts together for Sculpin, #ossart, and ddd.io. I've decided to give Source Maven some …
Wow, we are well into 2014 and I haven't posted since last July? Ugh. Well, a lot has happened since then. A lot. I should get to documenting that at some point but for now I wanted to share something new! Last week as php[tek] came to an end my friend …
The fine folks at SensioLabs have posted my Embedded Composer talk on YouTube! I'd still love to get feedback on the talk. :) If you saw it in person or later watched it on YouTube, please let me know what you think. You can send me a Tweet or find me on IRC as …
For the last few weeks I've been polishing Embedded Composer for my talk at Symfony Live 2013 in Portland. Embedded Composer started its life as a part of Sculpin but was extracted so that other people could potentially use it. I'm hoping that Embedded Composer will help more people get interested …
You want to help out on a large project. You find a Pull Request that someone else is working on and decide you want to help out. You make your changes and are ready to send a Pull Request but to your surprise you find that the fork you want to send your …