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Speakers 2009
Speakers
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Aral Balkan
- Aral is a developer, professional speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur. In 2008 Aral created and staged the world's first fully-virtual web conference, <head>.
As a developer, Aral has been programming for over twenty years, has a love for learning new programming languages, a passion for simplicity, and an enduring fondness for both visual and experience design. Unabashedly an alpha geek, he is currently hacking Objective-C on the iPhone, Python and Django on Google App Engine, and, of course, what he is most well-known for, Flash, Flex, and ActionScript on the Flash Platform.
Aral also has a long history with PHP, having started hacking on the b2 engine (the precursor to Wordpress) in the good old days. His experience with Flash and Flex led him to use AMFPHP and Flash Remoting extensively, usually in tandem with Arp, his open-source pattern-based ActionScript framework. He is the creator of the SWX data format (the native data format for the Flash Platform) and SWX-PHP (the PHP implementation of SWX-RPC).
Aral's keynote talk at the conference is titled: The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
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Chris Shiflett
- Chris is the Chief Technology Officer of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice and guides web development initiatives. Chris is a thought leader in the PHP and web application security communities - a widely-read blogger at shiflett.org, a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, and the founder of the PHP Security Consortium. His books include the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly), PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly), and PHP in Action (Manning).
Chris's talk at the conference is titled: Security-Centered Design - exploring the impact of human behavior
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David Axmark
- David is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a developer of the free database server, MySQL. He has been involved with MySQL development from its beginning along with the fellow co-founder Michael Widenius. David currently focuses on open source licensing aspects, community relations and evangelism. David has been involved with free software since 1980 and has said he is committed to developing a successful business model using free open source software.
David's talk at the conference is titled Clouds on the horizon? Get ready for Drizzle
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David Soria Parra
- David Soria Parra is a software engineer on Sun Microsystems' Webstack team, a contributor to the PHP core and lead developer of the PHP taglib bindings.
In the past he worked for Mayflower GmbH developing large-scale media content platforms. He was responsible for the development of PHProjekt 6 and is known to be an active developer and evangelist for the Mercurial SCM.
David's talk at the conference is titled Sharding Architectures.
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Hank Janssen
- Hank is the Director of Program Management at the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center, where he runs the Open Source Software lab and Novell Joint Interoperability labs. Hank has been working with UNIX and later Linux and other operating systems for over 20 years. He started his work at AT&T and whilst there he designed a globally distributed database system before people knew what they were. Utilizing such golden oldies as UUCP and RJE. In the early and mid-nineties he was the lead programmer and designer on a Point Of Sale system that did real-time cell phone activations for Sprint, the first anywhere in the US. Most of his career has been spent in applications development, data manipulation and database design and development. Prior to joining Microsoft 2.5 years ago, he worked for the previous 7 years as an architect for large (and small) cellular telephone companies. Virtually all of the work he has been doing has been in or with UNIX, Linux and open source software related areas, and his favourite languages remain C/C++, and favourite editor is still Emacs.
Hank's talk at the conference is titled: PHP on Windows - the undiscovered country
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Mihai Corlan
- Mihai has been working on web technologies since 2000. He started designing web sites, then moved to the developer side - PHP on the server, HTML/CSS on the client. He then developed to DHTML and AJAX on the client, and these days focuses on Flex and AIR.
He was a senior web developer for InterAKT, working on most of our products for web developers. From WYSIWYG HTML editors (KTML), to products such as electronic shops, newsletters systems, CMS, polls systems, charts libraries and RAD frameworks (MX Kollection).
In 2006, InterAKT was acquired by Adobe, and so Mihai started working for them, first as a member of Flex Builder engineering team, and then as Platform Evangelist. Now he travels around Europe, giving talks on Flex and AIR. When not on the move, he writes articles.
Mihai's talk at the conference is titled: Flex and AIR for PHP programmers
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Rowan Merewood
- Rowan is lead developer at PlusNet, an ISP based in Sheffield and part of the BT Group. He works extensively with PHP, MySQL, Apache, and a host of other open source technologies to build and maintain the platform that supports Plusnet's entire customer base. Through this he's worked with PHP applications that are responsible for the simplest of dynamic content, up to billing thousands of customers per month.
His previous experience also includes Java and Python-based web frameworks, the ins and outs of which have given him a passion for web standards, test-driven development, and solid software engineering. Rowan's interests include eXtreme Programming, and finding new ways to fiddle with his N95.
Rowan's talk at the conference is titled: State Machines to State Of The Art: Smart, efficient design using ReST & MVC
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Scott MacVicar
- Scott is the lead developer of the PHP SQLite3 extension and the ImageMagick PHP wrapper. He also helps with other PHP extensions and the core in between.
Currently he is a developer at Jelsoft Enterprises in England which produces the forum software, vBulletin. Current topics of interest are secure authentication, alternative databases and performance tuning.
Scott's talk at the conference is titled: What's new in PHP 5.3
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Sebastian Bergmann
- Sebastian is a long-time contributor to various PHP projects, including PHP itself. He is the developer of PHPUnit and offers consulting, training, and coaching services to help enterprises improve the quality assurance process for their PHP-based software projects.
Sebastian's talk at the conference is titled: Of Lambda Functions, Closures and Traits
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Stefan Koopmanschap
- Stefan Koopmanschap is Professional Services Consultant at ibuildings. He is a community person and is active in the dutch PHP community as
secretary of the Dutch PHP Usergroup as well as in the symfony community by advocating symfony.Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and plugin developer and maintainer plus various other things for symfony.
Stefan is also a best practices advocate. He prefers easy and useful explanations of best practices over the academic and theoretical stuff found in most literature.
Stefan's talk at the conference is titled: Myphp-busters: symfony framework
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Stuart Herbert
- Stuart is the Technical Manager at Gradwell, a unified communications provider and the UK's leading provider for business VoIP services. A software engineer and operational manager, Stuart has over fourteen years of experience in software design, implementation, support and in technical and operational management. Over the years, he has worked extensively on projects for household names including Eurostar, Hewlett-Packard, Orange, Vodafone, the Ordnance Survey, the British Computer Society, English Heritage, Lloyds TSB, the Imperial War Museum, Promethean, the Office of Rail Regulation, and many more. He has written for php|architect magazine, is a popular conference speaker, and was a co-author of the original official Study Guide for the Zend PHP Certification Exam. He is also a former contributor to Gentoo Linux.
Stuart's talk at the conference is titled: Living with Frameworks
Aral Balkan
Chris Shiflett
David Axmark
David Soria Parra
Hank Janssen
Mihai Corlan
Rowan Merewood
Scott MacVicar
Sebastian Bergmann
Stefan Koopmanschap
Stuart Herbert
Unfortunately Marcus Franz and Andrei Zmievski could not speak at the conference, due to personal circumstances.
