Speakers
Speakers
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Damien Seguy
- Damien has contributed to PHP and MySQL since 1999 through promotion, documentation, creation of local user groups and participation in conferences and writing technical articles. He is editor of the French magazine Direction|PHP, and technical portal nexen.net which publishes monthly statistics on PHP. He works as a PHP and MySQL consultant at Nexen Services in Paris, a hosting company specialising in open source software. Damien is the founder of AFUP and co-founder of PHP Quebec, which organises conferences in Paris and Montreal. He is also author of 3 books on PHP and MySQL, the first DVD devoted to PHP, and co-author of the PHP certification. He also contributes to the French translation of the PHP and MySQL documentation.
His talk is titled PHP code audits.
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Derick Rethans
- Derick has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the Xdebug debugging tool, the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He's a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming. Derick works as an independent contractor doing various PHP related jobs while focussing on internals and extensions. In his spare time he likes to travel, hike, ski and practise photography.
His talk is titled PHP on the D-BUS.
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Fabien Potencier
- Fabien discovered the Web in 1994, at a time when connecting to the Internet was still associated with the harmful strident sounds of a modem. Being a developer by passion, he immediately started to build websites with Perl. But with the release of PHP 5, he decided to switch focus to PHP, and created the symfony framework project in 2004 to help his company leverage the power of PHP for its customers.
Fabien is a serial-entrepreneur, and among other companies, he created Sensio, a services and consulting company specialized in web technologies and Internet marketing, in 1998.
Fabien is also the creator of several other Open-Source projects, a writer, a blogger, a speaker at international conferences, and a happy father of two wonderful kids.
His talk is titled PHP 5.3 in practise.
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Ian Barber
- Ian is a professional services consultant at Ibuildings in the UK, where he leads development teams for a variety of large enterprise clients. He blogs regularly at phpir.com, covering information retrieval, text mining, natural language processing and other interesting topics.
His talk is titled 'In search of...' - integrating local search systems.
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Johannes Schlüter
- Johannes, working as Engineer for Sun Microsystem's MySQL Group and living in Munich, Germany, is a long-time contributor to different Open Source projects mostly focused on the PHP project, where he's, as release manager, responsible for the PHP 5.3 series. His personal website is at schlueters.de.
His talk is titled hidden features - from core to PECL.
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Josh Holmes
- Josh is a passionate soul who gets his kicks solving problems with deep fried awesomeness. He is currently employed by Microsoft as a UX Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a UX or Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region. Prior to joining Microsoft in October 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development with an emphasis on mobility and RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organisations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash. You can contact Josh through his blog at joshholmes.com.
His talk is titled the lost art of simplicity.
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Juliette Folmer
- Juliette is an all round consultant and web-developer. Having started with client-side web development in 2000, she furtively tried to avoid server-side web until she was forced to learn PHP at knife-point in 2002 and found herself hooked quite quickly. As she herself would put it 'It is more fun than Sudoku, and just as challenging to get it right'. She has actively contributed to a number of open source projects and published several articles and php-classes.
Juliette is self-employed and based in the Netherlands.Her talk is titled Regex fu.
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Lorenzo Alberton
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Lorenzo has a M.Sc. degree in Software Engineering and has been working with PHP and other languages for over 10 years. He's the lead maintainer of several PEAR packages (MDB2, Pager, Translation2...) and is a long time contributor to open source projects. He's also a researcher in the machine learning / NLP fields, and is generally interested in databases, algorithms and data structures. Currently he works as a Software Engineer at Ibuildings UK, helping high profile companies developing critical web applications. You can read his articles on his personal site or on the Ibuilding's techPortal.
His talk is titled RDBMS in the social networks age.
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Lorna Jane Mitchell
- Lorna is a senior developer who speaks, writes and blogs on a variety of technical topics. At Ibuildings she runs the PHP Academy, meaning she's involved in managing and coaching trainers, hosting seminars and conferences, building a training programme and representing Ibuildings within the PHP community. Lorna is the Editor-in-Chief at Ibuildings techPortal and blogs regularly at lornajane.net. In her spare time she is the European Representative of PHPWomen and is an organiser of the PHPNW user group and conference.
Her talk is titled best practices for web service design.
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Remo Biagioni
- Remo is Head of Research & Development at Stickyeyes, a search marketing agency based in Leeds. The R&D team works on a mixture of client site builds, internal reporting tools and Market Defender a search marketing intelligence tool. His team works mainly with PHP, MySQL and Apache. Remo graduated with an MSc in pure mathematics having covered programming in Fortran, Pascal, Lisp & C; he joined BT's R&D Labs at Martlesham Heath working on large scale systems (a dozen mainframes, a few hundred Unix servers...) before getting an MBA and leaving to set up his own web development business. Remo sold the business in 2008 and joined Stickyeyes. Remo is passionate about object-orientated coding and can talk for hours about the Liskov Subsitution Principle, test driven development and solid software engineering.
His talk is titled database optimisation.
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Rowan Merewood
- Rowan was lead developer at Plusnet, a Sheffield-based ISP now part of the BT Group. He holds a master's degree in software engineering and has previously worked with Java and Python before moving to PHP. His work at Plusnet has given him extensive experience with the traditional LAMP stack and other open source technologies that support everything in the business from simple dynamic pages through to billing the entire customer base. Working with a wide cross-section of "Other People's Code" has given Rowan a passion for open standards and test-driven development. Outside of work, you can find Rowan on Twitter or view the occasional experiments on his blog.
His talk is titled Living with legacy code.
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Stefan Koopmanschap
- Stefan is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He currently works as senior developer and team lead at Unet. He is a community person and is active in the Benelux PHP community as secretary of the PHPBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community as the Community Manager.
Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and community manager, 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.
His talk is titled would you like docs with that?.
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Stefan Priebsch
- Stefan is a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc. He holds a degree in computer science and is author of various books and technical articles. As a consultant, he helps customers make better use of PHP, with a focus on software architecture, design patterns, and tools and methods.
His talk is titled antiPHPatterns.
Damien Seguy
Derick Rethans
Fabien Potencier
Ian Barber
Johannes Schlüter
Josh Holmes
Juliette Folmer
Lorenzo Alberton
Lorna Jane Mitchell
Remo Biagioni
Rowan Merewood
Stefan Koopmanschap
Stefan Priebsch
