Session en anglais
Zend Framework is by far the most popular framework for PHP currently
in existence. There are, however, still many myths and biases about
the framework. Is Zend Framework really only a marketing tool? Does it
have too much overhead? Is it really that hard to contribute to Zend
Framework? These and many more questions will be answered by the two
PHP myphp-busters.
[note for organizers: This is a joint talk with Michelangelo van Dam, who also submitted some other proposals]
in existence. There are, however, still many myths and biases about
the framework. Is Zend Framework really only a marketing tool? Does it
have too much overhead? Is it really that hard to contribute to Zend
Framework? These and many more questions will be answered by the two
PHP myphp-busters.
[note for organizers: This is a joint talk with Michelangelo van Dam, who also submitted some other proposals]
Felix De Vliegher (Ibuildings) View speaker page
Felix De Vliegher is a software engineer and professional services consultant at Ibuildings, an international PHP services company. Starting with PHP programming about 7 years ago, he quickly got interested in everything related to PHP architecture, testing, project automation and advocating PHP wherever he goes. As a part of this, Felix is an active board member for PHPBenelux, the Benelux PHP usergroup.Current interests are continuous integration and systems integration with PHP. When not playing with PHP, he likes a good movie or exploring a forest in the area.
Stefan Koopmanschap (UNET) View speaker page
Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He currently works as senior developer at Unet. 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 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.
