Recently Nick Hodge (Open Source Evangelist) from Microsoft asked me if I would like to do an introduction for the new School of PHP that Microsoft was launching. The School of PHP is a very cool idea and I could not say no to something that could get more people into PHP development. The school is an online course which has video tutorials that help walk people through writing web applications with PHP using Microsoft…
Attended the first PHP user group meet-up in Sydney. Was great to see the PHP guys again as always great discussions. The talks were on security and presented by Yahoo. @jazdor showed some main security issues with PHP, cross site scripting, SQL injection, man in the middle attacks. He showed some easy ways that people can use these holes to attack a website. He presented with both slides and live demos so we actually got…
Connecting Children across countries Recently started working with Raul Caceres on a new project for Child Fund. I will be helping out on the Drupal 6 theme building. I am excited about this project as it is connecting children between Australian and Vietnam via way of online community and video sharing. The project will be build using Drupal 6 on Linux, Apache, Mysql. The set date for launch is July 2011. I will be working…
During the Linux Conference mini conf days held on Monday and Tuesday @chrsjnr ran a day of talks about open source code. Adam Harvey from php.net presented a talk in which he was inspired by a talk given at Pycon last year on the state of Python. It is presented in a tongue and check way and very well done. If your a PHP fan or not it is worth a watch and a good…
Was glad to make the PHP conference at Google Sydney after hassles with public transport. The night started well. Short talks spread across two rooms with groups in each room. Graham from Syd PHP was ensuring that the time frame was stuck to as some talks could of gotten interesting. The boys from Yahoo came and gave us these very awesome pen like screw drivers with philips and flat head as well as a torch.…
Last year on the 23rd November Microsoft sponsored a one day focused PHP event. This occurred the day before the Open Source Developers conference was scheduled to start. The day was organised with a series of short talks and workshops held in one room. The event attracted small interest at first and rapidly gained exposure closer to the day. The day was held with success and attendees where happy with the presentation of both workshop…