This last weekend I attended SunshinePHP in Miami Florida !
In the photo below you see Rasmus Lerdorf - which made it a hat trick for me, seeing the three people that I consider to be the fathers of modern PHP all in the same week !
Home of the best things about being a PHP developer is the community and SunshinePHP was great for me because I got to see a collection of PHP friends that hadn’t seen for a while.
In addition to Rasmus’s keynote…..
- Cal Evans gave a motivating oratory on the successful community.
- Keith Casey gave a great closing address on “Thinking Outside the Box”
- Davey Shafik was there representing @EngineYard
- Beth Tucker Long did a great talk on continuous integration for PHP develoeprs
- Sebastian Bergmann taught me about PHPUnit for Unit Testing PHP apps.
- I got to visit with my old pal Mark Brown from Microsoft
- I met Luke Stokes, co-founder of FoxyCart
- I met Matthew Turland who I’ve followed on twitter !
- I got to meet Corey Fowler – who I’ve been friends with on twitter for years but never met in person !! (And who now works at Microsoft)
- I met (and missed lunch with) Alan Seiden – PHP IBMi Guru!
What an awesome 2 days…..
If you’re not attending PHP Community events, you’re missing out !
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Thanks, Joe. We’ll get that lunch soon!
Alan
How about at COMMON ?