[Phpug] php seminar on 10th September - hosted by ibuildings

[Ken Guest]

Hi,
It seeems iBuildings are going to host a PHP seminar on the 10th of
September in the Temple bar hotel in Dublin from
9:30 to 13:00 - details are on their website at
http://www.ibuildings.com/events/dublin - it's only 50 euro [plus vat]
to attend.
It's mentioned/syndicated on planet-php.net but not all of us might
read that site so I thought I might let you all know.

The following is copied from their site:

Ibuildings Seminar - Enterprise PHP and Zend

Date: 10th September 2008
Time: 9.30 am to 1 pm
Location: Temple Bar Hotel, Dublin 2, Ireland
Speaker: Ivo Jansch

Are you a sophisticated PHP developer, or a newbie? Either way, you
need to make the best of your resources, be they people delivering
projects, or hardware serving your customers.

Take this opportunity to learn from the industry experts the
importance of PHP best practices:

    * Improve your productivity
    * Improve application performance
    * Improve the maintainability of your applications
    * Understand the Zend product offerings

Ibuildings are holding a PHP seminar on the 10th September, 9.30am -
1pm, at Temple Bar Hotel, Dublin, with lunch following presentations
and discussions. The event will be an intimate seminar, for just a few
attendees.

Ibuildings has invited Ivo Jansch, CTO and leading PHP expert, to
share his experiences on Enterprise PHP. In this presentation, Ivo
talks about the three major challenges that PHP development teams face
nowadays. The first challenge is that good PHP developers are
increasingly hard to find. To grow the team is no longer a simple
matter of adding new developers. Instead, we have to look at ways to
make the existing team more productive. The second challenge is
maintaining code. Once a project is complete, it is usually not over.
If maintenance is not done properly, valuable time can be lost, and
new projects will be negatively influenced by interruptions from
existing projects. The third challenge is scale. An application is
running smoothly, until all of a sudden your site is mentioned on one
of the popular blogs or featured on TV. If scalability is not tackled
right from the start, the site will go down from the load, and what
could have been your 15 minutes of fame turns into 15 minutes of
shame.

During this talk, Ivo will cover procedures and tools to cope with
these challenges, to get a better website in less time. We will also
be showcasing some of the Zend products.

Picture of Ivo

Cost: 50 euros + VAT per attendee (including coffee/tea and lunch).
Participants, who sign up before 15th August, will also receive a free
copy of Ivo's book on Enterprise PHP, published by php|architect!


k.