Tag: phpnw09

Last weekend was the second annual PHP North West Conference, held at Manchester Conference Centre and attended by 200 people. We kicked off our weekend on Friday night, with a pre-conference social in a pub near to the conference venue. There wasn't really enough space but it contained geeky things …

Thanks to a wonderful combination of slideshare actually working and conference wifi being rather excellent, the slides from my talk "Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World" are now online, you can find them at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/passing-the-joel-test-in-the-php-world.

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Having just put the finishing touches to the schedule for PHPNW09, I'm realising just how excited I am about this event coming up in less than a fortnight. This is the second year we've run the event, and its bigger and better than last year - and I know what a …

I have experience of PHP conferences from all possible angles - as an attendee, as a speaker and as an organiser. At PHP North West this year I will be taking this to new heights and combining all three roles into a single one-day conference. I have a speaking slot at …

Plans for the second annual PHP North West conference (Manchester, 10th October) are coming along rather nicely, so I thought I'd share an update and some headline news. First of all - tickets cost 50 GBP + VAT. This is about 57 euros or 81 dollars. I don't know where else you …

The date for PHPNW was announced a few weeks ago as Saturday 10th October 2009, and now we've got all the official bits and bobs to go with it! In outline:

The website: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk

Tickets: http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/register. Early bird pricing until September …

Last night at the PHPNW user group we announced this year's conference - PHPNW09. We don't have a lot of detail but here is a run-down of all the information I have:

• Date: Saturday 10th October 2009
• Location: Manchester Conference Centre. It's a new venue but just as central and actually …