A really entertaining talk, with great slides, by Sebastian Marek at PHPNW12 on Code Reviews. As usual, the notes below are a mix my understanding of what Sebastian said and what I was thinking as he said it. If I’ve misunderstood or misheard, just let me know in the comments. Introducing the characters (cute little …
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PHPNW12: Catching opportunities in Open Source
Christian Schaefer and Stefan Koopmanschap talking about Open Source and community. It’s nice every so often to sit in a talk which you’re in broad agreement with, and obviously as a keen proponent of a Open Source this talk was right slap bang in the middle of my interests. The notes below are a combination …
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PHPNW12: Don’t reboot, debug!
Some notes from Joshua Thijssen’s talk, which focussed on the knowledge and methods needed to deal with problems in production in a measured way. I was at the back of the room, and some of this is outside my wheelhouse, but here’s the notes; just bear in mind I might have either misheard or misunderstood …
PHPNW12: Ade Oshineye on Dev Experience, API Design and Craft Skills
These are the notes I made not so much of what Ade was saying, although some of the following was said by Ade, but also of my thoughts as he spoke. Really great talk, thank you Ade. Apprenticeship patterns: acquisition, transmission, growth. We are all API designers, we all write functions we ourselves use later …
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BarCamp Leeds 2007 – a round up
So a quick round up of my first BarCamp experience at BarCamp Leeds: brilliant.
Tom Smith: Things you don’t know, but might, at BarCamp Leeds 2007
Tom Smith, of Everything Ability, gave an entertaining & refreshing talk for the last of my BarCamp Leeds sessions. A wonderful roll call, reminder and rallying cry for what he felt were great but neglected ideas things.
Simon Wheatley: Introduction to WordPress at BarCamp Leeds 2007
My session for BarCamp Leeds was on “An Introduction to WordPress”, and I put together a nice graphical presentation for it… only to find the laptop playing up and unable to connect to the screen!
Mark Sailes: TV 3.0 at BarCamp Leeds 2007
For me, BarCamp Leeds started with Mark Sailes‘ session on TV 3.0. Mark’s session was one of my favourite sessions of the day and centred on his contention that TV needs to enter a third phase (1st phase: black & white, 2nd phase: colour). TV 3.0 is all about audience participation and analysis (this linked …
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BarCamp Leeds
Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this. Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far: WordPress as a CMS Events searches for Children & the Arts …