Linde002::PHP

My very first article got published today, and on Devzone no less! It’s a small article about creating and extending widgets with PHP-GTK and I’d love to get some feedback on it. I’m currently working on a piece about PHP-IDS but I’m not sure when / if that’s going up.

My presentation for ZendCon is coming along nicely. Keywords there are Pyramids, Roman facades and other architectural funnies.

As you can tell by the shiny picture I’ve been invited to speak at the  Open Source Developers Conference 2008 to once again talk about The PHP Secure Application Lifecycle. The talk will be  shorter (30 minute talk) then the one I’m giving at ZendCon but this will be plenty to get my main points across.

At the moment there are some questions about available budget but I’m confident this will be sorted later this week. If all goes well I’ll be doing the presentation together with my good colleague Marinus Kuivenhoven.

This just in! Travel and accommodations will be paid by Sogeti so Marinus and myself are now ready to start preparing for OSDC! See you all there.

I’ll keep you posted of my preparations.

With ZendCon only four and a halve weeks away (shiver shiver) and me having been away on a vacation only to return to a backlog of work, preparations for ZendCon haven’t been going as fast as my neurotic ego would like it. The fact that me and my PHPWoman (she’s got the t-shirt!) will be staying an extra week in San Francisco doesn’t help to ease my mind. There are so many things to prepare and look at, who’s got the time!

The tickets have been reserved and paid for. Same as the hotels but the reason why I’m going, my presentation, still only exists in my head. Sure I’ve got the outline written down and vetted by some experienced speakers at Sogeti but I still only have two slides ready to go.

The new ESTA system approved my use of the Visa Waiver Program so that’s one less concern. (I forgot to hand in my green slip last time I left the USA so that had me worried).

Well enough procrastination for now, I need to get those slides ready!

For those interested, my session start tuesday the 16th of september at 2:45PM, see you there!