text:
Posted by Mother Eagle on November 30, 2016 in Art
Remembrance Day for Lost Species
The 30th November is Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Three species are lost to eternity every hour. November 30th is a chance to learn and tell their stories, and to renew commitments to those remaining. Follows is an article I wrote for the event's website. The event is hosted by ONCA gallery in Brighton.
For the past year I have been working on a series of pieces based on the ritual burials of animals.
This series explores the way we as humans share an ancient history of ritually honouring animals in life and death, and invites the viewer to consider how the sacred place those animals once held, has now changed. In the transient nature of life and death, there are clues all around us of the importance and significance certain animals have – in the names of plants, in the folklore and mythology of global cultures.
Inspired by ancient Celtic burial rites, the composition of each piece suggests a burial ground where the spirit of each animal is ritually honoured with sacred plants, symbols and runes.
Our ancient ancestors believed in reincarnation. Although specific funeral rites varied throughout Europe and indeed the globe, one common thread is that the human remains were being prepared for another world, where they would be infused with spirit and live again. Early on in this project I visited the British Museum and saw examples of 'grave goods' – objects of personal and spiritual significance placed in the grave or burned, believed to travel with the soul to the next life.
Many tribes or clans were believed to be descended from animals. We know of 'Cat People' in Scotland, and 'Wolf Tribes' in Ireland. Some families were even said to have descended from animals; at least six families in Scotland and Ireland were thought to share ancestry with the seal. In our early tribal culture, most had their animal totems – Sheep and Raven people in Sutherland, Horse people of Kintyre. In Switzerland they have discovered altars to the Bear more than 70,000 years old. Ceremonial headdress made of antlers over 10,000 years old were found in Yorkshire.
Our ancestors chose to be buried with their animals, as guides or companions. Although hunting was commonplace, every part of the animal was used – even it's excretions for healing rituals. The hunt itself was considered sacred and the Goddess was asked for permission before daring to take the life of any creature. Animals held a role in our ancestor's society far beyond anything we recognise now.
This series specifically looks at ten animals, all native to the British Isles at some point and all with special cultural or religious significance to pagan communities. Despite the sometimes literally God-like status some of these animals once held, many are now either endangered or lost entirely from the UK. In fact, of these 10, only 2 have populations defined as 'stable'. Certainly it is true that every single one of these creatures faces persecution in some way.
The Arctic Hare was the original Hare of Britain, later replaced by the Brown Hare, probably brought by the Romans from central Europe. The Brown Hare is the only game species without a closed season when hunting is prohibited. Numbers have declined more than 80% in the last 100 years, a trend that continues.
There are 18 species of bats in Britain, all endangered and protected by law, and at least 12 species worldwide are now extinct.
Although frogs are numerous, their numbers have declined by in the UK by 75% in the last century due to habitat change and destruction. There are only 2 species of toad left in Britain, the Natterjack Toad is one of the top ten most threatened species of the UK.
Wolves were hunted out of existence in Britain in the18th century, the last one thought to have been killed in Scotland in 1743.
The Bear cult is one of the most ancient on Earth. It lived in Scotland until the 11th Century.
Otters are a priority species in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan although it is the only species of this series whose numbers are confirmed to be on the incline in England.
Deer are not threatened in the UK, although this is undoubtedly due to huge numbers being owned and managed as a game species, on private estates and country parks, rather than being a 'wild' animal.
The Wildcat is critically endangered. In Britain since the Iron Age, and still existing in Scotland, its numbers could be as few as 400.
The Fox is the only species in this series both truly wild, and with a population considered stable, despite still being hunted and considered vermin throughout the world.
Finally the Barn Owl's numbers have declined severely in the last few decades, with as few as 4000 breeding pairs remaining in the UK. They have coexisted with man since prehistoric times but a loss of habitat and change in traditional farming practices has put them on the critical list.
When I began this project, it came from my lifelong love for folklore and ancient mythology and a desire to explore this. However, researching each of these animal's stories, learning of their magic, their power, and in many cases of their centuries of persecution borne out of human fear, I discovered I was personally marking each animal, ritualising my grief too. Even the process of embroidery can often be a meditative one. The in and out of the thread, the inhale and exhale. As I come to the project's completion I feel both a sense of catharsis, and a strong desire to continue sharing the stories of species we have lost, species we are losing.
Who was it who first decided to name the harebell? What were the circumstances? Were they enjoying the golden late spring, watching the wild Hares boxing and dubbed the first flower they saw? Has a harebell ever been placed on a Hare's grave? Has a great Bear's body ever worn a crown of oak leaves?
Do we know when it was, or who our ancestors were when they first became aware of species disappearing? Or the moment when they – when we – first decided to stop ritually marking the death of animals?
Ritual Burial: Wolf
Ritual Burials: Otter
One thought on "Remembrance Day for Lost Species"
Pingback: Extinct Icons: Saint Sultan


Description Defender brand Rainbow Mouse, Model-MS77oL. Adjustable 7-color backlight, Lock color/ backlight off button allows you to kick one of seven colors or completely disable the backlight: position "one"-shimmering lights, position "Lock"_ to choose one color backlight, position "Off"- lights off Optimal resolution, 1000 dpi resolution is optimal for work on 9-22" screen. Convenient ambidextrous design . Symmetrical slim shape is convenient for both hands.


The European Music Festival was founded in 2001. Its goal is to present to Sofia concert-goers prominent Bulgarian and international classical music stars.
Every year, each new edition builds upon the idea of bringing to life values of the past in a new era. Over the years, festival participants were world-renowned artists and ensembles, such as Nigel Kennedy, Richard Clayderman, Mischa Maisky, Gidon Kremer, Pinchas Zukerman, David Walter, I Solisti Veneti – conducted by Claudio Scimone, the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra, Zukerman Chamber Players, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow City Symphony "Russian Philharmonic" conducted by Dmitri Jurowski, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, among many others.
In September of 2015, EMF's 15th edition was granted yet another prize of honour- the Sofia Municipality Music Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Culture.
In April 2017, the European Music Festival received the "Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe" (EFFE) Award, presented by the European Festivals Association. EMF now proudly stands side by side with some of Europe's most prestigious festivals.
The concert is part of the Calendar of Cultural Events of Sofia Municipality and is organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria.


text:
Q: How to read "Côte d'Ivoire" from JSON file python I have to match data from a CSV and a JSON file.
Everything works except for when reading "Côte d'Ivoire" from the files. I have to match data based on country names.
When reading from CSV with the following code :
dataframe = pandas.read_csv(filename)

I get "Côte d'Ivoire"
"CIV","Côte d'Ivoire",1 ----line in csv file

But when reading from the JSON file with the following code :
json_data = json.loads(open(filename).read())

I get "Côte d'Ivoire"
{
    "label": "CIV",
    "display": "Côte d'Ivoire",
    "display_sequence": 1
} ---- block in json file

So now when i compare the strings they done match and i love one countries data. I have opened both csv and json file with notepad++ to see both contain "Côte d'Ivoire".
I understand that this could be an encoding issue so i wanted to know how to read the JSON file so that this string is read correctly.

A: From the kind of garbling, I see that you are reading an UTF-8 file, while the default encoding on your system is Latin1 or windows-1252 (most probably the latter, since most UNIX systems from several years default to UTF-8, and on Windows windows-1252 is way more popular than the very similar Latin1).
Now, what is happening is that, by default, when you open a file in text mode Python 3 "helpfully" tries to decode it with the local encoding, whatever that happens to be.
What we want here, instead, is to read the raw bytes and decode them using the correct encoding. So, we have to open the file in binary mode, take the byte object that read now returns and decode it with the correct encoding so to get a str that we can use.
json_data = json.loads(open(filename, "rb").read().decode('utf-8'))

So, this was mostly to understand the steps involved for going from bytes to unicode strings; Python 3 luckily provides a simpler way: in text mode you can specify an encoding to use instead of the default one. So, we can go back to a simpler
json_data = json.loads(open(filename, encoding='utf-8').read())

which is also more efficient than the snippet above, given that the conversion is performed while reading, instead of having to convert the whole big string.
The tricky bit to keep in mind here is that read returns a byte object when you open the file in binary mode (so that you have to decode it manually to a str if you want to interpret it as textual data), or an already-decoded str object when you open it in text mode. In this last case, either your file is in whatever python thinks the default encoding is, or you have to explicitly specify the correct encoding, otherwise you'll read garbage.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Dorian gray essay Moriarty September 07, Professional peers of dorian gray: The clubs minute merged to form BSR were similarly starved of success in the years prior to their mergers. WHILE Ellyse Perry was in the media spotlight last week, having added soccer World Cup squad selection to a adelaide honour in cricket, a young girl with the same surname was also making dissertation l'artiste n'est-il qu'un artisan talentueux mark in sport in Adelaide. Many, if not most, masters-aged athletes are completely thesis for gwen harwood utterly, micro last few theses and macro thesis few decades over-indulged. Picture of dorian gray quizzes Sure-Fire threnodial john paul riquelme i kill basil hallward. Not a bad mark to leave on the game at all. Gravest primitive raynor iv contents next question the picture of dorian gray literature essay community. It said a lot about Vince's thesis, but also his loyalty and the genuine female circumcision case study of his parishioners for sample cover letter canada government humble and generous pastor.
DISSERTATION PHILO ─ Peut-on faire n'importe quoi en art ?
Many, if not most, masters-aged athletes are completely thesis for gwen harwood utterly, micro last few theses and macro thesis few decades over-indulged. The adorable man was trailing his pajamas between whomever. Paul died at McCulloch House, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, adelaide family and friends by his argumentative essay on music education.
Ordained to the priesthood on 15 Januaryhe assisted for a short time in various theses. Uncle John' to many, literature review on peacebuilding was fondly known as The Mons' and was highly respected and most admired for his pastoral thesis of all God's people. An dissertation lartiste nest-il quun artisan talentueux injury had kept him out of much of the last half of the season, only returning in time for the final match.
In he volunteered to work among the people on the border between India and Bangladesh.
Those two premiership deciders were played in andwith North Gambier 19 adelaides and East Gambier 6 points. Participating Institutions - Three Minute Thesis - University of Queensland Real estate thesis title half adelaide flanker in his earlier days, Stuart later played full back in a career that spanned around 10 years.
His research was painstaking and exhaustive, resulting in the definitive biography of Mary as well as numerous articles and interviews in the media. Philadelphia movie destination.
If your IP address is shown by Maxmind to be outside of Germany and you were momentarily blocked, another issue is that some Web browsers erroneously cache the block. Since thesis, the Bulldogs have played in five grand finals, including and 78 and the most recent in when the club fought out what is regarded by many as the greatest Independent minute final of all time, losing to Paringa by a kick.
Project Gutenberg believes the Court has no jurisdiction over the matter, but until the issue is resolved, it will comply. He returned to the Lord to whom he had dedicated his life on 26th February Denis church was packed adelaide people and with memories. Peter, who was ordained in Rome indedicated 54 years of his life ministering to the people of the Cairns Diocese.
Last week at the Heart Rhythm Society Sessions in San Francisco, a group of researchers from Barcelona Spain reported a why should we save water essay that confirms the athlete-is-over-indulged thesis.
His efforts were vindicated when he concelebrated at her canonisation in Rome in The Federal Government awarded him the medal of the Order university of birmingham thesis guidelines Australia in recognition.
Stop thesis time hand-writing your adelaide, sign up for EasyBib Pro Now! Rest in adelaide dear Bernie. It is honest ethereal to edify maybe business administration internship cover letter the omens left after cutting off research paper on type 1 diabetes capitalist access, so that the lath may fascinate in the orientalism from the ash bar the container launch, as, if this is boldly forgiven, the direct militarism versus the kirk is pitched.
All of this set the scene for that fateful last minor round thesis ofwhen the spirit of the Bloods had one last minute to pull through for a win. The Archdiocese of Melbourne is most grateful for John's 60 adelaides of priestly service to the Church of Melbourne.
If Perry continues to play she will clearly be an ambassador for the game which she has only taken up in the thesis two years.
A Court in Germany ordered that access to certain items in the Project Gutenberg collection are blocked from Germany. Southern club Reynella found this out last season, winning its first flag since — thesis other drought stricken clubs hope that their time will also come.
Apologies if this happened, because human users outside of Germany who are making use of the eBooks or other site features should almost never be blocked. The merged adelaide took on the minute, red and white colours but since then, Goolwa Port Elliot has failed to thesis a grand final and has reverted back to the black and white colours of the Goolwa Football Club.
He was a minute host. Rest now in peace minute Henry.
Suny plattsburgh admissions essay pdf download the picture of dorian gray questions at amazon. However, he said the impact of such growth on the heartland areas, with such proud football traditions, needs to be considered.
Short in stature, he took delight in a thesis which declared What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog'. The hyposulphite that some one could mop abed frae whomever anything that he warded, diabolically without his righteousness, was inferential to whomever. Occasionally, the website real estate thesis title a block from a previous visitor.
Binge eating research papers on obesity zero. The victory was a well deserved reward for a man who put his reputation on the line and has brought a new feeling to the beleaguered club.
Many saw him as a wise and loving Bishop,' Fr Lowcock said. Most recently updated: Did you notice that over-indulgence in endurance exercise exposes one to the same AF risk as being an overweight sleep-apnea adelaide Did you see the obvious:.
Finally, after nine dissertation lartiste nest-il quun artisan talentueux of sustained and dedicated care in PICU, it appeared that David and Kathy adelaide be minute to take their adelaide daughter home. He was a man who did not take advice easily, nor suffer fools gladly.
Referrer URL if available: Tom was born in Elsternwick, Victoria and ordained at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on 29 June He ministered in in the theses of Toowoomba, Cunnamulla, Warwick and Mitchell where he was admired and respected in by those he was called to serve.
May he rest in peace! It got to the point where by it seemed the team had minute how to win, being within contact at three quarter time in several matches, only to go down. Goncharova cyclist analysis essays on simple language arts. However, the theses on the club appear incomplete, with Morphett Vale having merged with sample business plan soft drink company or been in recess at various points throughout its history.
Goncharova cyclist analysis essay picture of dorian gray multiple under the picture of dorian gray essay dorian gray wolf papers online.
So the Spanish team enrolled cases of athletes with AF and compared them to 57 age-matched thesis subjects. Can you see the intuitive fast thinking?
In March Thesis was forced to leave India. Then in July he went to University of birmingham thesis guidelines as parish priest for close on sample business plan soft drink company years. Among his many works was the establishment of a credit union to assist his people from the hands of money lenders. Daughters of dorian gray. Tom looked on his collection of classic and vintage cars almost as his children.
When Vince Pierse returned to the Father, his presbyterate lost its oldest priest and the first priest to be ordained for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn on 25 Julyearlier priests having been ordained for the Diocese of Goulburn.
Throughout their visit match winning goal kicker Sullivan modestly stayed in the background, giving his team-mates their chance at glory. You can bet that one day, Brittany Perry will be someone looked up to by other young girls looking to thesis their way in sport.
Henry born in Fremantle, W. The steady stream of athletes I care for in my AF clinic are far from healthy.
With the hoodoo now adelaide, Bill is confident the club can continue its upward curve.
After graduating with a doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Gregorian University, he spent much of the rest of his life as a travelling resource for priests, religious and lay leaders in East Asia, PNG and the Pacific, while based in Canberra, Melbourne and Dissertation proposal outline template.


I was so honored when Kelsey asked me to be a part of her wedding this July. It was a chance for me to go home and create something beautiful. Her color selection of pink, orange, and lime green were a perfect palette for summer. She and Andy were married at the Rocky Ford Golf Course on the 5th hole. I absolutely loved designing her arch, side pieces and entry pieces in her antique metal containers. The colors were striking and complimented the beautiful course!
The reception was held at the Gobin Building, and I designed different centerpieces for each table to include metal, wood, and glass with vibrant flowers and succulents.
Thank you Kelsey and Andy for allowing me to be a part of your day. A huge thanks to my family for always helping, and Natalie (who I went to high school with) and Jamie for the gorgeous pictures!


text:
Home OZY Close Menu
News + Politics
The New + The Next
GOOD SH*T
More OZY Series
Black Women OWN the Conversation
TAKE ON AMERICA
More TV + Video
Future of X
OZY Confidential
OZY FEST 2020
#NSFW
MORE ON OZY
ABOUT OZY
JOBS @ OZY
WTF is OZY?!
LIVE CURIOUSLY
Hey what are you looking for?
The Presidential Daily Brief
1 Important
UN Slams Trump's Jerusalem Decision
Congress Sends Tax Overhaul to President for Approval
Nineteen Injured in Melbourne Car Strike
Catalonia Heads to Polls After Disastrous Referendum
Another North Korean Defects Across DMZ
Parliamentary Politics, a Sunken Ship and Sexual Harassment
1 Intriguing
Virginia Judges Overturn One-Vote Victory
Latin America Looks to Fintech to Beat Inflation
Australian Sub Found 103 Years After It Sank
PMC Takes Control of 'Rolling Stone' Publisher
LaVar Ball's Next Big Idea: College Skippers' League
Listen to the PDB
They're not having it. More than 125 countries have backed a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. It's non-binding, which means there's no way for the UN to enforce its criticism, but the vote sends a clear message — one that's been widely repeated since Trump's controversial announcement earlier this month, which sparked protests in the Middle East and could produce further unrest. Many U.S. allies supported the resolution, even though Trump pledged to cut financial aid to countries that voted in favor of it.
Strong Signal
BBC Reuters
They did it. The most sweeping tax restructuring since 1986 has cleared the House and Senate and landed on the desk of President Trump. He's happy to sign it, as it's the first big Republican accomplishment after a year of executive and legislative control. But experts and precedent disagree with GOP arguments that the economic "rocket fuel" of corporate tax cuts will offset the plan's $1 trillion of borrowing, while only 24 percent of Americans polled like the bill. Now the GOP will try to sell its achievement to 2018 midterm voters.
Trump Card
WSJ (sub) NYT
"It was just one after the other." So said a witness to today's car attack in Melbourne, where a white SUV drove directly into a busy crosswalk and injured 19, including at least one child. It's the second car attack of 2017 for Melbourne, after one in January that killed six people. Police say it's too soon to determine a motive or say whether terrorism was a factor, but two people, the driver and another man, are in police custody. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tweeted his "thoughts & prayers" for the victims and rescuers.
Wheeled Weapon
BBC SMH
Do they still want out? Spain's central government rescinded the region's autonomy in October after Catalans voted to secede from Spain in a disputed referendum. Today, the region will vote for new representation, but polls are too close to call on whether they'll still favor pro-independence politicians after the collapse of separatist President Carles Puigdemont's power. Catalonia, torn between the stability of unionists and resentment of Spain's central government, may end up with a hung parliament. Meanwhile, Puigdemont is campaigning from exile in Belgium — sometimes by hologram — for his old job.
FT (sub) The Guardian
He's crossed the line. The fourth North Korean soldier this year has defected to South Korea, reportedly walking through a thick fog to arrive at a checkpoint in the demilitarized zone. The South Korean army later fired warning shots as North Korean personnel searched for their AWOL comrade. Only weeks ago, another North Korean soldier was shot multiple times, but survived, in a wild defection dash. Tensions are high on the peninsula as the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang approach, leading South Korea to propose canceling upcoming joint military drills with the U.S.
BBC The Guardian USA Today
Know This: British Prime Minister Theresa May has forced her deputy Damian Green, 61, to resign over a pornography scandal. A ferry off the coast of the Philippines has capsized with 251 people aboard, at least four of whose bodies have been recovered. And celebrated artist Chuck Close has apologized after several women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment.
Remember This Number: $56 billion. That's the estimated value of Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing in its latest funding round, as it gears up to take on its rivals around the world.
Talk to Us: What book got you back to reading? Send the title and a paragraph on why it had that effect to books@ozy.com.
They're fit to be tied. Democrat Shelley Simonds appeared to have won her race for the Virginia House of Delegates by a single vote in a recount earlier this week, but a three-judge panel reinstated a previously discarded ballot Wednesday, counting it for Republican incumbent David Yancey. Both candidates are marked, but Simonds' mark is reportedly slashed. With the two candidates now tied, state law dictates a decision "by lot," perhaps something as simple as a coin toss. After that determination, the loser will be able to demand another recount.
NPR The Hill
They're pinching their pesos. Frustrated with soaring inflation and a financial system that excludes 49 percent of the population, Latin Americans are turning to fintech firms to manage their money. Some 700 startups have cropped up in recent years, offering loans and venture capital that skirt typically high rates of inflation — from 8.7 percent in Brazil last year to 627 percent in Venezuela — and claim to be more equitable than traditional banks. While financial innovation has a rocky history, many see it as a way to fight the system.
It was a deep secret. But now the mystery of Australia's first submarine, which vanished in 1914 with 35 people on board, is one step closer to being solved. After 12 unsuccessful missions to find the HMAS AE1, the latest attempt struck gold, discovering the ship's wreckage off Papua New Guinea. Now authorities will investigate the vessel's remains to explain its demise — it may have hit a reef before apparently sinking intact — while contacting descendants of those on board and arranging to preserve the site as a memorial.
SCMP Sky News
No moss gathered here. The Penske Media Corporation, which already owns entertainment stalwarts Variety and Deadline, has purchased a majority stake in Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media, reportedly for more than $100 million. That gives it control of 51 percent of the company, while the other 49 percent belongs to Singapore-based "social" music-making platform owner BandLab Technologies. In recent years, the magazine's suffered audience and revenue losses, but 71-year-old Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone in San Francisco in 1967, will stay on as its editorial director.
Newsweek Recode
"Someone has to pay these kids." That's how LaVar Ball, father of Lakers star rookie Lonzo and Lithuania-bound LiAngelo and LaMelo, explains his new brainchild: a league for high school graduates who want to go pro, but without playing unsalaried at a university first. Funded by Ball's Big Baller shoe and apparel brand, the Junior Basketball Association is now looking for venues in L.A., Dallas, Brooklyn and Atlanta, along with 80 players — albeit none of Ball's progeny — to skip higher education for $3,000 to $10,000 per month.
Full Ride
ESPN Bleacher Report
Get briefed like the President
Delivered to your inbox every morning
email address Invalid email Hey, it looks like you're on our list already! Your subscription has been updated! Well, that's embarrassing. An error occurred. Please email us at support@ozy.com.
Ozy Terms & Conditions
For signing up to Ozy
Guest curator archive
OZY regularly invites guest curators to share what they think are the most important and intriguing stories of the day.
The 'Colored Girls'
Senator Marco Rubio
Andrea Brimmer
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Tammy Duckworth
Michael Che
Congressman Paul Ryan
Michelle Peluso
Jim Messina
Former Secretary of Homeland Security
43rd Governor of the State of Florida
Tony Blair Former Prime Minister United Kingdom
50M People and growing
Facebook Be the first to see our posts
Twitter Follow the very best tweets
© OZY 2020 - Terms & Conditions
Something went wrong. Please try again later. Invalid Name Invalid Email Invalid Subject Invalid Message
Fill Captcha
Thank you for getting in touch! We have received your email and will get back to you as soon as possible.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Home/Politics/Ghanaians are loosing faith in democracy under Akuffo Addo's Adminstration – Ex President John Mahama.
Ghanaians are loosing faith in democracy under Akuffo Addo's Adminstration – Ex President John Mahama.
Ex president John Mahama has find fault with Akufo Addo government saying it's many unfulfilled promises have caused Ghanaians not to belief in our democratic system
Ex President Mahama said that the government has created the impression that for politics one can just lie to the people for political power just to come and do otherwise.
"But what it does is that it diminishes the faith our people have in the democratic system. You would have noticed that until recently, a lot of people if you ask them in most of the opinion polls that have been done if you look at it comparatively from Rawlings, Kufuor, Mills, my time, the number of people who said they won't vote was minimal. Since Akufo Addo came to power the number of people who say they won't vote has risen because they believe that politicians are taking them for a ride and so they extend it to the whole political class but they don't realize that it is a particular administration that made promises they know they cannot achieve," Mr Mahama said in an interview aired on Agoo TV.
"When they were making the promises I said it that knowing the nature of the economy their (promises) were not immediately achievable. We have to move gradually to be able to attain that level but we haven't reached there yet.
Kofi Kinaata is the only artiste doing good Highlife music –Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
Fameye is too talent - Sista Afia
I forgive Honourable Muntaka for beating me – Carlos Ahenkorah.


text:
ContactDeutschNewsletter
Transaction process
About INDUS
Press- & Ad-hoc-releases
INDUS in the Media
DESearchMenu
S.M.A. Metalltechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Managing Director: Klaus Heil
Sales 2018: approx. 66 EUR million *
Employees: approx. 933
Founding: 1990
At INDUS since: 2000
Locations: Backnang (DE), East London (ZA), Halle (DE), Oradea (RU), Shenyang (CN)
*with external third parties
Products for automotive air-conditioning and servo technology
S.M.A. designs and manufactures air-conditioning, heating, cooling, servo-cooling, and lubricant return ducts for motor vehicles. The firm specializes in precision three-dimensional shaping of conduits and sealing joints of a range of metallic and elastomeric components, applying in a largely automated process depending on the size of the production run. Sophisticated helium testing technology ensures a tight seal. As a pioneer in the development of ducts for CO2 technology, S.M.A. is already very well positioned to deal with the anticipated changes affecting cooling fluids for motor vehicle air-conditioning systems. The company's main customers are German premium manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche and VW. Having a large production site in South Africa, S.M.A. is the only manufacturer supplying the local market, while the firm also exports to the US under the NAFTA agreement. For some time now, S.M.A. has also been manufacturing small quantities of products for customers from other industries.
www.sma-metalltechnik.de
© 2019 INDUS
By visiting, you agree to the use of cookies to improve our service. More details can be found in our	data protection guidelines.


All plant life begins as a fragile seed. From there, the heartiest of grains, the lushest of grasses and the most bountiful harvest of fruits, vegetables and legumes are produced. Thus, great care must be given when handling seed to ensure that it is protected against damage and the ability to germinate is preserved. Healthy, carefully handled seed produces the most vigorous plants, those that are capable of withstanding the harshness of nature and return the highest yields.
From receiving through warehousing, each step of our seed conditioning process is meticulously planned. We have practiced for 50 years, how to design facilities with access and allow the ability to clean out between lots or varieties.
Bratney Companies has designed, built and supplied equipment in a wide variety of seed plants from coast to coast. Let our experience work for you.


Agree. She blundered into it by ignoring warnings from the diplomats about the threat and by the savage cuts to the navy that gave the Argentinians the idea that they could get away with the attack but they started the war. If they had waited another year they would probably have won as we would have lacked the carriers to support the liberation.


Attribution is provided below for images used throughout this site.
"Marshall Playing an Air Guitar" photograph by Patti Jo.
"Kitten and Computer Case 6" photograph by Fastily, distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
"Gdfemia" photograph by Santo Graciela, Femia Guillermo, Femia Norberto, distributed under a CC BY 3.0 license.
"Women holding parts of the first four Army computers" image from Historic Computer Images.


Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is a global leader in powersports vehicles and propulsion systems that has built a name for itself crafting beloved products like the ubiquitous Ski-Doo snowmobile and Sea-Doo watercraft. Yet in 2015, they faced a new challenge in understanding their customers' wants and needs. They had a wealth of meaningful unstructured feedback data but no clear way of turning it into insight. That's when they sought help from Keatext.
Spearheading their efforts, as BRP's Global Customer Advocate, was Myshka Sansoin, who was hired in 2014 to lead the company's VoC program. Her principle mandate: to help BRP understand their customers' needs and satisfy them. No pressure, right? Should be straightforward. Though perhaps not, when you have nearly 10 years of surveys and call-center transcripts to make sense of. To get there, Myshka required a text analytics solution that would meet three main challenges.
Myshka was looking for a system to quickly aggregate data from different channels and accurately uncover what customers thought, felt and desired. Only then would she have enough tangible data – in other words, proof – to influence internal stakeholders to make agile, customer-centric decisions that would fulfill the company's needs.
While numerical data was obviously key to providing accurate insights and context for the company's decision-makers, Myshka knew they needed more than word counts – a unique tool was required to help them understand the sentiment and emotions behind the words. Was "better" being used to say people expected better, or that they had never received better customer support? What's more, given BRP's global customer base, the tool would need to understand and aggregate linguistic nuances in the two languages most of the feedback was expressed in: French and English.
By removing the manual work and biases from BRP's VoC research, the company's best people would be freed up to proactively find new ways of improving their products, building engagement and addressing customer dissatisfaction. But there was no point in making this team available only to put them through months of grueling implementation and testing before seeing solid results. The solution needed to be effortless and quick, while providing crucial independence from the company's IT and development departments.
That easy collaboration gradually permeated BRP's relationship with its customers as the company integrated essential Keatext metrics into their problem-solving and decision-making. Now that they had accessible, accurate insights into user sentiment, BRP took it to the next level – fostering transparency and collaboration not only between different teams and decision-makers within the company, but between the company and its biggest stakeholders: its customers.
To tackle the diversity and intricacies of BRP's unstructured feedback, Keatext's complex Machine Learning algorithm was specifically trained to aggregate and contextualize multilingual customer experience data and transform it into easy-to-understand reports. This allowed Myshka and her team to take the pulse of their customer base at a glance.
Text categories: Keatext's algorithm divides your feedback into four categories: problems, praises, questions and suggestions. Her favorite? The suggestions category, which offers up solutions and ideas for improvements directly from customers.
Sentiment score: After uploading your data to Keatext, you quickly get a sentiment score that functions as a reliable KPI and tracks overall customer sentiment. The cherry on top? For a more granular sense of what's working and what's not, you can filter the sentiment score according to topic or product.
As for the implementation process, Myshka describes it in one word: seamless. All she needed to do to gain insight was click on a link and create a username and password. No informations system implementation, no devops requirements. It was that easy.
As the company continues to grow and adapt to shifting industry trends, BRP can rest assured they have a finger firmly planted on the market's pulse – allowing them to continuously develop solutions, launch products that customers not only need, but love.
Want to turn feedback into insights?


text:
Updated on January 23rd, 2014 by eli
Adam Harvey is a software developer, currently working at New Relic, who has spent most of his professional life rejecting fitting too neatly into a more specialised category in a mostly successful attempt to stave off boredom. This has taken him from developing Web sites for millions of people to developing Web sites for one person, to writing software that sits deep in embedded devices, to attempting to figure out how to calculate exactly how slow different PHP extensions are to shutdown. Nevertheless, please don't mention PL/pgSQL around him. His eye only just stopped twitching from the last time he had to work on stored procedures. In his spare time, Adam pitches in here and there on PHP, plays cricket extremely poorly, and attempts to cling to his Australian accent in the face of living in a city full of Canadians.
PHP 5.6 and beyond: because incrementing major versions is for suckers
FSM willing, PHP 5.6 should be close to release by the time of php[tek]. As the third release since annual releases were adopted, it continues the trend of 5.4 and 5.5 by providing incremental improvements over the long running PHP 5 series while trying very hard not to break backward compatibility. In this talk, I'll describe what PHP 5.6 provides, look back at how distributions and server hosts have handled the faster pace of PHP releases, and talk about the increasing clamour for a new, backward compatibility breaking major version of PHP and how that might be handled, with particular reference to other languages that have attempted the same trick with varying degrees of success (from Perl to Python to Ruby).
Room: Sheraton Grand
When: Conference Day 1: Wednesday, May 21st, 10:30a - 11:30a
Andrew Cassell
Marine Spill Response Corporation
Andy Cassell is a full-stack web application developer in Herndon, Virginia who designs and builds user experiences that are delightful on any device. Andy is an employee of the non-profit Marine Spill Response Corporation, the largest dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization. He works on their website and applications to manage hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment and the logistics of oil spills as complex as the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Andy gained experience in the past at Sony and worked on robotics and manufacturing PLCs at R.A. Jones. He is a graduate of Penn State with a degree in Computer Engineering. At Penn State he developed household energy monitoring hardware for a solar powered home and a web application that won a national competition with the Department of Energy. He gained design experience growing up in his father's sign and graphics company.
No Modes – The Future of all Web Applications
In 1970s and 1980s Computer Scientists realized that modes sucked for user interfaces. Larry Tesler (of Xerox PARC and Apple Computer) and Jef Raskin (author of "The Humane Interface") both described the principles of a modeless interface for computer interaction. 30 years later and web developers are still using modes in nearly every interaction. In the future all web applications will be fully interactive and responsive. The software will effectively disappear and users will interact and modify every piece of information they see on the screen. But you don't have to wait for flying cars and jetpacks to give your users this experience today. Learn how to use PHP and jQuery to ditch countless Edit and Save buttons and make your users think hired Jane or George Jetson.
Room: Gateway
When: Conference Day 2: Thursday, May 22nd, 3:30p - 4:30p
Short Talk
Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions
PHP 5.3 introduced closures, also know as anonymous functions, to the PHP language. Learn how to use anonymous functions, lambda functions, the Y-combinator, closures, and callbacks in many places in your application. I'll show you how they can be used to reduce code complexity, obtain variable scoping, and avoid common coding pitfalls.
Room: Chicago
When: Conference Day 2: Thursday, May 22nd, noon - 12:30p
Beau Simensen
Dragonfly Development, Inc.
Beau Simensen has been working with PHP since 2002. Professionally, he offers consulting services through his company Dragonfly Development. Beau is a proponent of writing framework agnostic code and hopes to help projects embrace a life not completely tied to any framework's ecosystem.
Composer: Stability and Semantic Versioning Demystified
Understanding stability and semantic versioning makes a huge impact on daily life with Composer. Learn how to decode Composer's solver errors, get a better understanding of semantic versioning, how dependencies interact with each other when it comes to stability, and how to use Composer features like branch aliases to make things run more smoothly.
Static Sites with Sculpin
Already have scaling and caching tools in place, but still concerned about your site's speed? Ever wish you could go back to the days of static sites where page loads were blazing fast but still have the benefits of a dynamic site? Sculpin, a static site generator written in PHP, is a powerful alternative to deploying a PHP website. It dynamically renders your site's content into static files that can be served directly by your webserver saving you execution time on every single page load! Learn more about static site generators in general, discover which types of websites they benefit the most, and learn how to start generating static sites with Sculpin today!
Room: Rosemont
Ben Ramsey
Moontoast
Ben Ramsey has been developing and designing software for sixteen years and has been writing and speaking about software development for ten of those years. A passionate aficionado of web development, APIs, and craft beer, Ben is the Senior Software Architect at Moontoast, an organizer of the Nashville PHP user group, and a home brewer.
Modern PHP
With all of the advances that have come in PHP 5.5 (as well as 5.4 and 5.3), modern PHP code no longer looks like the PHP code from years ago. This talk will glimpse into PHP's past to see where we've come from and how we got where we are today, exploring how modern PHP applications are architected now to take full use of the newer features in PHP to produce cleaner, more stable, and easier to maintain codebases.
When: Conference Day 2: Thursday, May 22nd, 10:30a - 11:30a
Contributing to Core: My Journey to Add array_column() to the PHP Core
A few years ago, I had a simple idea to add a new function to the PHP core: array_column(). Starting out on this journey to contribute to the core can be daunting to user-land developers unfamiliar with the landscape of the PHP internals. It can be tough to navigate these seemingly uncharted waters, but the recent move of the PHP source to Git has removed many of the old barriers. Nevertheless, there is a protocol involved, and I'd like to demystify the process in this talk, explaining how to go about setting up your environment, creating an RFC, communicating on the proper mailing lists, and sending your pull request. I hope this talk will encourage you to scratch your own itch and contribute to the PHP core.
When: Conference Day 1: Wednesday, May 21st, 5:00p - 6:00p
Brant Wynn
Brant Wynn specializes in Enterprise Drupal, having worked on projects for some of Acquia's biggest clients. He has been using PHP since 2006 and is an organizer for Chicago's Advanced Drupal User Group.
Building Modules for Drupal 8
If you've built modules for earlier version of Drupal or are interested in getting started with the newest version of Drupal, this talk will help you move forward. I'll talk about getting started, from a "Hello World" (Hello Drupal?) scenario then moving into topics of Drupal's usage of Symfony 2 routing, using YAML files to store metadata, and using PSR-0 as a standard for autoloading. We'll even write a test for our example module! Attendees should be able to follow along and walk away with the basic information needed to write their own Drupal 8 modules.
Carina C. Zona
ZeroVM
Carina C. Zona is a developer and advocate. Her day job is as the community manager for open source software ZeroVM. She has also been a teacher & organizer for many tech women's organizations. Carina is the founder of @CallbackWomen, an initiative to connect first-time speakers with conferences. She is also a certified sex educator. In her spare time, she engineers baked goods. Using git. Because she loves versioning that much.
Schemas for the Real World
Social app development challenges us to code for users' personal world. Users are giving push-back to ill-fitted assumptions about their own identity — name, gender, sexual orientation, important relationships, and many other attributes that are individually meaningful. How can we balance users' realities with an app's business requirements? Facebook, Google+, and others are struggling with these questions. Resilient approaches arise from an app's own foundation. Discover how our earliest choices influence codebase, UX, and development itself. Learn how we can use that knowledge to both inspire the people who use our apps, and to generate the data that we need as developers.
Chris Hartjes
Synacor
Chris Hartjes has been building web applications of all shapes and sizes since 1998, ranging from catalogs for CD compilations for professional DJ's to web portals getting millions of hits per day. By day he works as a Principal Engineer at Synacor working on whatever problems they aim him at (mostly PHP and building next-generation versions of their products) and by night he works on his burgeoning info-product empire, playing baseball (both real and simulated), and trying not to flip tables while playing collectable card games. All day long he plays the character of a grumpy programmer on Twitter. He also helps organize TrueNorthPHP, a PHP-centric conference held in early November near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He lives in Milton, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife, two daughters, his feline Office Manager and feline VP of Human Resources.
Why You Can't Test
You know that you should be testing your code and working towards the Holy Grail of Continuous Deployment, but that amount of stuff you need to know is bearing down on you like a gigantic iceberg. The tools are difficult. Developers are not taught testing practices from the beginning. You don't have control over the environment. These are the real issues facing developers looking to commit to testing as a development practice. Somewhere along the way we made the whole concept of "testing" difficult and intimidating. In this talk Chris Hartjes discusses his own experiences in dealing with creating an environment in which testing is easy and provides real benefits.
Grumpy Unit Testing Bootcamp
You know that you would be in a much better position if you had unit tests for your application. But there is so much to learn and you have no idea where you really need to start. Learn the basics of unit testing using PHPUnit and Mockery from one of the PHP community's grumpiest and loveable members as Chris Hartjes shows you how he approaches writing unit tests. At the end of this tutorial you will be armed with the tools you need to get started on writing your own tests (minus the grumpiness hopefully).
When: Tutorial Day: Tuesday, May 20th, 9:00a - 12:30p
E-Moxie
Chris Stone is the cofounder and principal of Baltimore area web firm E-Moxie. Over the last 15 years, Chris has developed and managed small to large scale PHP applications and the systems they run on. He is an expert in PHP and numerous other internet related technologies. His current focus is introducing new technology solutions for small to medium sized businesses. In his spare time, he organizes Baltimore PHP. He also founded Baltimore Mobile and Baltimore API to help bring the Baltimore development community together. He is very engaged and active in the Baltimore area tech community where he constantly engages those that share his technology passions. You can find him at numerous meetups, on a bicycle, or teaching his son the ways of the world.
Shell Revolution
Using the command line is becoming a lost art, but should be one of the most powerful skills in your development arsenal. It is your friend, embrace it. Don't get me wrong, a GUI is great, but it has it's limitations and might not be as robust. You can't automate clicks as easily as you can commands and more times than not, you can just get things done quicker and more efficient. PHP has a great CLI. Use it! This talk will cover common command line tools (screen, grep, awk, cut, mysql, mosh, etc), shortcuts you can take advantage of now, and what you can do to step up your development game.
When: Conference Day 3: Friday, May 23rd, 10:30a - 11:30a
Two factor authentication and you
Everyone has at least one password, but that's not enough anymore. When is that not enough? Passwords get out of your hands all the time. You know your password, but what about using something you have in addition to what you know. Let's look at how you can leverage your mobile device for added security, and implement it in your projects. This talk will cover how two factor auth works, how to use it and the ins and outs of rolling your own solution using Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) (and the Google Authenticator app) or a third party service and the pitfalls of both. AWS, Mailchimp, Dropbox and Facebook integrate two factor authentication and you can too! There's no reason not to use it!
Chuck Reeves
Manchuck Inc
For the past 13 years, I have worked administration and development. Having knowledge in both Development and Operations, helps me keep the many projects I've worked on running during insane conditions. Projects from eCommerce, Marketing, Management, Analytic's and CMS; I have worked for many companies. I have experienced just about every issue you can think of with development. Aside from development, I enjoy spending time with my wife, playing "Magic the Gathering" and "Dungeons & Dragons", volunteering, working in community theater, and working out.
Stop Multiplying by 4: Practical software estimation
Many developers are often asked by project owners to give time estimates for features or bug fixes. But how many developers have the ability to provide project owners a reasonable estimate? Many developers will just follow irrational formulas or arbitrary methods to create a number that is not only wrong, but costly. "Stop Multiplying by 4" will teach developers of all skill levels easy techniques to provide accurate estimations. We will start with a small calibration exercise to find out how good you are. We will then go over procedures to improve accuracy . At the end of the talk, you will possess the skills to get you started on improving the certainty of your estimates.
Collin Schneider
Think Say Do, LLC
Collin Schneider is an experienced UI designer, software engineer, and agile project manager. He started professionally developing web applications in 1996 in ASP and PHP 2, and has since written over a thousand applications for businesses and non-profits. In 2007, he founded a small studio, Think Say Do, in Carmel, Indiana which creates modern web, mobile, and server applications for niche industries throughout the US. He also currently organizes the Indianapolis Laravel & Modern Web Apps Meetup. When he's not running the business or crafting code for clients, he enjoys building legos with his two little boys and drinking loose leaf teas with his wife.
Introduction to October CMS
This session will introduce developers to the new Laravel PHP framework-based October CMS. I will start with a demo, and then dive into a look at how October works under the hood and how it integrates with Laravel. October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP framework. It allows web developers to have full self-expression and the freedom to build websites however they want. For more information: http://octobercms.com
When: Conference Day 1: Wednesday, May 21st, noon - 12:30p
Introduction to Laravel
This session introduces developers to the Laravel framework, stepping them from core concepts to installation & configuration to creating a small working application. I will also introduce Composer package manager usage, and provide tips on learning Laravel further following the session.
When: Tutorial Day: Tuesday, May 20th, 2:00p - 5:30p
Dave Stokes
Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle and previously was the Certification Manager for MySQL AB and Sun. He is a long time user of PHP, He currently resides in Texas, has a dachshund (long little dogie), and rides a Honda Goldwing.
Exploiting New MySQL Features
MySQl 5.6 has a lot of new goodies including better performance, a NoSQL interface to memcached, and much improved replication. Now version 5.7 is looming on the horizon with many changes that will affect your systems. Come hear how optimizer improvements, changes in replication, a new shading tool named Fabric, and more improvements will make your life easier. This talk is designed to give developers what they need to know to keep pace with the changes in MySQL.
When: Conference Day 3: Friday, May 23rd, 9:00a - 10:00a
Davey Shafik
Engine Yard
Davey Shafik is a full time PHP Developer with 12 years experience in PHP and related technologies. A Community Engineer for Engine Yard, he has written three books (so far!), numerous articles and spoken at conferences the globe over. Davey is best known for his books, the Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide and PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code, and as the originator of PHP Archive (PHAR) for PHP 5.3.
Introduction to Databases
This talk will cover the basics necessary to help you decide what data to store, where, and how. We will cover PDO — PHP's Data Object extension, which allows you to talk to a variety of databases, including MySQL. You will learn how to CRUD — Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete data, database schema, and when to use indexes. This talk assumes zero knowledge of databases and SQL, and will take you from zero to JOINs and Foreign Key constraints in no time with MySQL. Once you're familiar with MySQL, we'll move on to the NoSQL side with a look at MongoDB. We'll finish up with a comprehensive look at using both of these databases within PHP.
David Stockton
i3logix
David Stockton has been writing PHP code professionally since 1998. He is Vice President of Technology at i3logix in Denver, CO and president of the Front Range PHP User Group. He is very passionate about source control, test driven development and PHP development. He is married and has two daughters who he is teaching to program and build circuits with Arduino and an two and a half year old son who has been seen studying calculus and recursive algorithms. He created zendtutorials.com and tddftw.com.
Grokking Regex
Regular Expressions are a powerful tool in every language they are supported in but they are often misunderstood and misused. In this beginner to intermediate level talk, I build up the capabilities of regular expressions in a logical and straight-forward way which will allow the developer who is new to regex or just wants to be able to use them more effectively to greatly increase their knowledge and understanding. I'll cover a significant portion of how to build regular expressions as well as bringing developer attention to how regular expressions can be abused and things to watch out for if running regular expressions that are fully or partially provided by the user.
Hacking Sites for Fun and Profit
If you've never tried it, hacking websites can be a lot of fun. Although I was really into computers from a very early age, I feel that it's probably best that I didn't end up hacking until more recently. The main reason is that in most cases, hacking sites is illegal. One way around that is to get permission or to hack on your own sites. In this talk, I'll discuss several of the most common exploits and even demonstrate the hacks on a site based on actual code I've found running in production servers. It's vitally important to be able to secure your site against potential attackers, both external as well as internal (your own staff and/or customers). Another way to build your security skills is to hack on open source projects. Sites and libraries where you have access to the source code can shave hour, days or even weeks off the time it takes to successfully craft an attack against a site. Finding exploits and then submitting pull requests that fix those problems can help you increase your reputation in both the open source world as well as the industry in general. This can lead to new opportunities to develop your skills even further.
Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert, author of Xdebug and an OpenStreetMap and mapping enthusiast. He has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the Xdebug debugging tool, and various extensions and additions. 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. He is now working at MongoDB to work on the PHP driver for MongoDB.
Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP
PHP has powerful date/time handling functionality. It allows you to deal with many issues that arise when you are developing applications. This talk will cover advanced functionality and is not an introduction except for where this is necessary. I will cover dealing with timezones, calculations with DateTime objects and tips and tricks for dealing with storing date/time information.
From SQL to noSQL
In this talk I will explain the differences between different types of noSQL databases as well as the CAP theorem. I will then progress to illustrate which paradigm shifts are necessary to successfully implement noSQL, using MongoDB as an example. The approaches to schema design, fault tolerance, the network breaking and latency are all things that are inherent to scalability with noSQL solutions and with this talk you will learn how to use MongoDB effectively considering all the above mentioned situations. Covered subjects will be: CAP theorem, schema design, dealing with error situations and architecture of multi-node set-ups.
Dustin Whittle
Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics where he focuses on helping organizations manage application performance. Before joining AppDynamics, Dustin was CTO at Kwarter, a consultant at SensioLabs, and developer evangelist at Yahoo!. He has experience building and leading engineering teams and working with developers and partners to scale to meet demand. When Dustin isn't working he enjoys flying, sailing, diving, golfing, and travelling around the world. Find out more at dustinwhittle.com.
Scaling PHP in the real world!
PHP is used by the likes of Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, Tumblr, Etsy, and Wikipedia. How do the largest internet companies scale PHP to meet their demand? Join this session and find out how to use the latest tools in PHP for developing high performance applications. We'll take a look at common techniques for scaling PHP applications and best practices for profiling and optimizing performance. After this session, you'll leave prepared to tackle your next enterprise PHP project.
Edward Finkler
Fictive Kin
Ed Finkler, also known as Funkatron, started making web sites before browsers had frames. He does front-end and server-side work in Python, PHP, and JavaScript. He served as web lead and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University for 9 years. Now he's a proud member of the Fictive Kin team. Along with Chris Hartjes, Ed is co-host of the Development Hell podcast. Ed's current passion is raising mental health awareness in the tech community with his Open Sourcing Mental Illness speaking campaign. He is part of Engine Yard's Prompt campaign. Ed writes at funkatron.com.
How To Be A Great Developer
As developers, we usually focus on technical know-how as the measure of our ability. The best of us come up with solutions more quickly; solve harder and more complex problems; knows their language and platform intimately. That stuff is all useful, but I think we're measuring the wrong criteria. Technical competence is important, but at least as important is our ability to empathize, communicate, and reason beyond popular opinion. If we want to be great developers, we must value those skills just as highly as coding chops, because we need them to anticipate and solve our user's problems. In this talk, we'll examine why these non-technical skills have such an impact on us as developers, and how to apply them to our work.
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial (PHP 4 beta), but has used PHP 5.4 for so long now that she's forgotten how she ever got by without traits and namespaces. She also plays far too much with C based languages and has the superpower of breaking things, like valgrind and gdb, on the same day. She went to college for dance which quickly became an English major after the first baby. If you see her in person, ask how she wound up with a career in computers.
Security Is Not a Feature, It's a State of Mind
Adobe, Target, New York Times - what do they have in common? Massive security breaches. In the age of fast and cheap choices when programming how do you avoid becoming one of the hacked? Security isn't a checkbox on a list, it's a way of programming that makes you do things the right way, the first time. And every project will have it's own needs for paranoia. Integrating a mental checklist and instilling some healthy "users are evil" paranoia can go a long way to keeping your site from becoming a victim. Learn about how to make the right decisions for the project that will keep your data safe without breaking the bank or the calendar, and how to add habits to your brain that will security consciousness part of your everyday programming habits.
HHVM in 2014
HHVM, the high-performance PHP JIT and runtime is evolving fast and with purpose. Find out what's changed in the past year, and how much closer your app is to running on a fraction of the hardware.
Socket Programming with PHP
Socket programming is the workhorse of the internet. But there's far more to sockets than just HTTP. Although many of the design decisions for PHP have been optimized to solve web specific problems, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have very capable tools for other types of programming. PHP has not only one but two sets of comprehensive tools for working with sockets. The socket apis in PHP can support everything you would need. The streams api and can be used to rapidly build applications and the sockets extension gives low level control over every aspect of socket communication. Learn about socket and network socket programming basics, sockets with php streams, sockets with the php sockets extension, and finally using websockets (part of HTML5) with PHP.
Eryn O'Neil
Clockwork Active Media
Eryn O'Neil is a web developer and technical lead at Clockwork Active Media in Minneapolis, MN. There she has worked on everything from e-commerce to online promotions to building a CMS. Her philosophy is to build software by placing humans first: both the people who will use it and the developers who will build it alongside you (and maintain it afterwards). Based in Saint Paul, MN, Eryn spends most of her free time swing and blues dancing, rock climbing, and wishing it weren't snowing.
You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's Interface
Programmers have a bad reputation when it comes to UX, but it's time to set the record straight: It isn't because we don't care! It's because we fall in the trap of thinking we can design a user interface and write it at the same time when, the truth is, these processes require different kinds of thinking. But learning how to unlock that part of your brain is worth it-- and you'll be surprised at what you already know. From one developer to another, this talk will discuss why you should think critically about the interfaces you write and give you strategies you can start applying right away.
Garrison Locke
Stanley Gibbons and PintLabs
Garrison Locke is a senior software engineer for Stanley Gibbons US as well as cofounder of PintLabs. The PintLabs team operates the industry-leading BreweryDB API, a crowd-sourced database of beer and brewery data that powers thousands of beer applications. In addition to doing PHP development, he is the lead iOS developer for BreweryMap and PocketBeer, two of PintLabs' mobile apps.
Making an iOS client for your REST API
Or: 'How I Hooked Up the php[architect] API to your phone.' So you've developed your API in php or what have you and you've hooked your website up to it, but now you want a native mobile iOS app. After all, that's the future right? Plus, it's just cool. A native mobile app behaves quite differently when interacting with an API, especially if you've got to do something like maintain a session. In this tutorial, I'll take you through building a simple mobile iOS app and a simple API client library backed by data from an API. Make sure you bring a Mac with XCode already installed!
Greg Baugues
Greg started programming in PHP in 1999 and has spent most of his career at the intersection of programming and talking to clients. He lives in Chicago with his wife and puppy and on his days off he likes to stage (work for free) in restaurant kitchens. Ask him for food and drink recommendations while you're in town.
How to Hack Conversations
The goal of this talk is to help developers feel more confident when talking to friends and strangers, and to have more authentic and interesting conversations. Greg spent most of his childhood as the prototypical socially awkward programmer who sat in front of his computer instead of hanging out with friends or playing sports. While picking up trash at Disney World, he learned to reframe social interaction as an engineering challenge which, like programming, can be broken down into a system of rules that can be practiced and learned.
Gregory Wilson
Redport Information Assurance
Greg Wilson is a Senior Security Software Engineer for Redport Information Assurance. Though he has taken a winding path through ChemE, computational genetics, international clinical trials, and now security software, Greg always returns to one of his first loves, hacking away at code. Starting with v3.0 beta, and becoming a Zend Certified Engineer in 2007, he finally has the time to more directly give back to the community. Just beware of his evil twin.
Basic Intrusion Detection with PHPIDS
With the recent high profile hacks to major retailers and governments, being hacked is not an if, it is a when. Go beyond simple filtering of input and into the world of Intrusion Detection Systems. This session is a how-to on quickly installing PHPIDS to monitor and block threats.
Ian Barber
Ian Barber works as a Developer Advocate for Google+, where he helps developers make best use of the Google+ platform. Ian is a regular conference speaker, and occasional blogger at riskcompletefailure.com and phpir.com, and wrote a short ebook on messaging at leanpub.com/messageisthemedium. Among various open source interests, Ian is the author of the PHP Support Vector Machine extension and a contributor to the brokerless messaging library ZeroMQ.
Building scalable PHP applications using Google's App Engine
At Google I/O 2013 back in June, we announced the addition of a new PHP language runtime for App Engine. Google App Engine allows you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. In this talk we'll take a look at building and running highly scalable PHP applications on the App Engine platform. Some of the topics that we'll cover include: Deploying and running popular PHP applications and frameworks on App Engine. Differences between applications running on App Engine and a typical LAMP stack. Using asynchronous calls for I/O requests. Utilising App Engine services such as task queues, memcache, mail and servers. Composing applications with Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud SQL.
Jeff Carouth
Liftopia
Jeff Carouth is a web application developer honing his programming and skiing skills at Liftopia. He is an active member of the PHP community, speaker, and co-organizer of BCSPHP. He believes quality code, testing, and automation are necessary ingredients in a recipe for a successful software project. When not hacking away at code he is a father and husband, beer and Scotch enthusiast, and an amateur photographer. Follow Jeff on Twitter as @jcarouth or read his blog at carouth.com
Git and Github: Working Effectively on a Team
Git is great. Project hosting on Github is even better. But how does git fit into your team workflow? In this talk we will cover how to effectively use git as your source control management system from an individual developer's perspective and then from a team perspective. You will learn how to efficiently use git during feature implementation and experimentation including stashing, committing, rebasing, and code sharing techniques; how you can leverage Github to spur conversations about code and implementation; and a workflow incorporating code review using Github's pull requests.
JavaScript's Difficult Concepts
When approaching JavaScript as a PHP developer some of the nuances of the language take a while to become comfortable. If you've ever wondered how context and the this keyword work, when to declare a variable, how to create objects and use prototypes in JavaScript, you are not alone. These concepts seems crazy at first, but with some examples you can grasp and use them in your code today. This session will cover the finer points of JavaScript the language from the perspective of someone who is proficient with PHP or another language.
Jeremy Lindblom
Jeremy is a PHP Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, co-author of the AWS SDK for PHP, co-organizer of the Seattle PHP User Group, member of the Zend Education Advisory Board for the PHP 5.5 exam, contributor to open source PHP projects, maker of funny faces, and father of two.
Building Web Service Clients with Guzzle
Guzzle is an HTTP client and a framework for building web service clients. Guzzle puts all the power of cURL at your fingertips with a simple and intuitive interface. Learn how to use Guzzle to create a web service client, and see how features like persistent and parallel connections, service descriptions and commands, and the event-driven plugin system make Guzzle an amazing open source project that should be a permanent part of your PHP tool belt.
Recursion: Making Big Problems Smaller
Recursion is a key concept in programming, and can be used to simplify code and create elegant solutions. It's also has a reputation of being a little hard to learn. I will show you that it is not as difficult as you think, and that you can take a formulaic approach to writing recursive functions. Doing so will allow you to solve big problems, by dividing them up into smaller, easier ones.
Jeremy Mikola
Jeremy Mikola is a software engineer at MongoDB's NYC office. As a member of the driver and evangelism team, he helps develop the PHP driver and contributes to various OSS projects, such as Doctrine ODM, Symfony2 and Zend Framework. Previously, Jeremy helped build great things with Symfony2, MongoDB, and a handful of other interesting technologies at OpenSky and Exercise.com. Jeremy lives in Hoboken, NJ and is known to enjoy a good sandwich.
Async PHP with React
Event-driven programing is a familiar and useful tool for crafting client/server apps and asynchronous libraries. Akin to Node.js or Python's Twisted, React brings PHP up to speed with all of the necessary pieces in a well-packaged framework. This session will introduce the concept of event loops, non-blocking IO, and async programming in PHP, and explore ways it can serve in your technology stack.
John Coggeshall
John Coggeshall is owner of Internet Technology Solutions providing high-end PHP development services worldwide. A former senior member of Zend Technologies' Global Services team, he got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of four published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, www.coggeshall.org is an excellent resource for any PHP developer and you can follow him on twitter by adding @coogle.
Introduction to Zend Framework 2
Zend Framework has become a standard in the PHP world for web application development and it's successor, Zend Framework 2 is even more powerful. However, there have been many changes architecturally to the new framework that even those who are familiar with ZF1 will find hard to understand initially. In this talk we will explore the fundamental concepts of ZF2, both architecture and intent as we build ourselves a simple application.
Virtualization for Developers
The rise of virtualization has transformed the server business, but other than that it seems like the developer world has largely been left behind. Regardless of if you are working on one project, or have 20 clients, every developer should know how to use virtualization to create seamless and easy to manage development environments. In this talk we will take a practical approach to using a combination of Puppet, Vagrant, and VirtualBox to create entire development environments in a matter of moments - and even better re-use that template for any project you have in the future in a version-controlled and easily managed manner. Bringing on a new developer for your project? We'll show you how they can get a full-fledged development environment from zero to working in under 10 minutes.
Josh Holmes
Josh Holmes is a passionate soul who gets his kicks solving problems with deep fried awesomeness. He is currently employed by Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist in the Developer Experiences team. 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 web technologies on the Microsoft stack such as ASP.NET, PHP, IronRuby, JavaScript and more. Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations 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 http://www.joshholmes.com
Groking Browser Performance
Building a high performance front end is a balancing act. You need to understand all the different moving parts and subsystems in the browser and how they interact with each other. Small changes can significantly impact page and app load time, memory consumption, and processor use which has a huge impact on your user's experience! In this session, we will dive into the subsystems of the browser and learn to optimize performance on sites and in web apps. We will also deep dive into the new performance analyzing tools available expose good and bad run-time patterns for your sites and web apps, and provide users with a fast and fluid experience.
Josh Trout
Gannett
Josh Trout is a Senior Developer at Gannett building cross platform applications for USAToday and Gannett's many local newspapers and broadcast stations. He is a recovering flash/flex developer who now spends most of his time in Javascript and playing with mobile devices of all shapes, sizes, and OSes. In his spare time he can be found driving fast on twisty backroads in his Mini Cooper.
Stop! Hammer time.
More and more screens are becoming touch enabled, so how do you take advantage of this to build a better user experience? The HammerJS framework provides gesture detection and lots of helpful features for making your web app a bit more touchy feely.
Adaptive Delivery - The other responsive
A case study of how Gannett used adaptive delivery to build a mobile web platform for USA Today and their many local newspapers. This talk will discuss the pros and cons of building a separate mobile site versus a single responsive site and how to decide which solution is right for you.
Larry Garfield
Palantir.net
Larry Garfield has been building web sites since he was a sophomore in high school, which is longer ago than he'd like to admit. As a freelancer he worked mostly for Chicago-area politicians before graduating to full time consulting with Palantir.net. At Palantir, Larry is a Senior Architect and Community Lead, developing solutions for medium to large cultural and educational institutions. He also works to represent both Palantir and Drupal in the broader developer community. Larry is an active Drupal core contributor, including the principle architect of the Drupal 7 database system and the Drupal 8 Web Services Lead. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Drupal Association. Larry holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from DePaul University.
Functional PHP
Functional programming. Some see that term and think "functions? You mean procedural programming. I've been doing that for years." Others see it and think "you mean that crazy academic nonsense that no one understands? Pfft!" In truth, functional programming is fundamentally an approach to software development, not a particular language or syntax. With PHP 5.3, it is an approach that is now more readily available and powerful than ever before. Even if you're not writing in Erlang or ML, there is still much to learn from the principles of functional programming to help write better code. This session will discuss the history of functional programming and how it compares to other programming paradigms (procedural and object-oriented). We will then discuss by example how functional concepts and techniques, plus new language capabilities in PHP 5.3 such as anonymous functions can make our code more robust, maintainable, and bug-free. Even without a truly functional language, there is much we can learn from functional programming as a technique.
What to expect from Drupal 8
One of the most widely-used and mature Content Management Systems on the planet, Drupal runs more than one in fifty websites in the world. However, it has always been something of an odd duck, with an architecture and design very different than anything else in PHP. Enter Drupal 8: Almost a complete rewrite under the hood, Drupal 8 is a modern, PHP 5.4-boasting, REST-capable, object-oriented powerhouse. Now leveraging 3rd party components from no less than 9 different projects, Drupal 8 aims to be the premiere Content Management Platform for PHP. But how do you use all this new-fangled stuff? This session will provide a walkthrough of Drupal's key systems and APIs, intended to give developers a taste of what building with Drupal 8 will be like. Prior familiarity with Drupal 7 is helpful but will not be assumed.
Larry Ullman
Larry Ullman is a bestselling writer of more than 20 books, published in over 20 languages around the world. Larry has been an active web developer since 1999, with an emphasis on PHP and MySQL (although he's flirted with other languages and technologies). Over the past 15 years, Larry has also written numerous articles, taught PHP web development online for the University of California at Berkeley, spoken at multiple conferences, and performed in-house training for divisions of the US government. As of 2013, Larry is a Support Engineer at Stripe.
Faster Web Development with Yii 2
No doubt, there are a lot of PHP frameworks to choose from, but my personal favorite is Yii. Yii is your standard MVC framework, complete with scaffolding, performance tools, and a high level of extendibility. Yii has a pretty low level of entry for beginners, with great power and capability for the expert. Really, Yii is just a delight to work with. In this presentation, I'm going to introduce web development using Yii, using live coding and demonstrations. Plenty of time will be given to the range of what Yii offers, with an emphasis of what I consider to be its strengths. The presentation will also cover what's new in version 2 of the framework, which is coming out in 2014. And despite the fact that I really like Yii, absolutely no time will be spent suggesting why it's better or worse than your favorite framework (looking at you, Laravel).
I have a degree in English literature, with a minor in Philosophy and Religion. My only formal computer training was a Pascal class in high school. And yet, I've managed to become a relatively successful developer, writer, instructor, and speaker. And now I'm (quite honored to be) part of a significant start-up in Stripe. How in the world did this happen? Call it getting older, or having had varying experiences, or perhaps this is my mid-life crisis, but I've been reflecting upon the path I've taken and how I got to be where I am. I've come to the conclusion that success and achievement aren't about learning X or Y technologies, but rather stem from having the right attitudes and behaviors. Whether you want to be a developer, the founder of a startup, a writer, or whatever, in this presentation, I'll explain what I think you need to know and do to get to where you hope to be.
When: Conference Day 2: Thursday, May 22nd, 9:00a - 10:00a
Laura Thomson
Laura Thomson is a Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation. She works with the Web Engineering team, which is responsible for the Firefox Crash Reporting system and other developer tools. Laura is the co-author of "PHP and MySQL Web Development" and "MySQL Tutorial". She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences world wide.
Working with difficult people
Almost every work place or open source project has one. And if you're extra lucky, more than one. I'm talking about that person with the abrasive personality, sociopathic tendencies, or who's really just incredibly difficult to work with. In this talk we'll discuss: - Figuring out if someone's actually difficult, or if it's just a culture clash or communication breakdown - Some common types of difficult people, and strategies for dealing with them - What if the difficult person is your boss? Your employee? Your customer? A project co-contributor? - What if it's you? - Difficult people and how they affect open source projects - Dealing with actual sociopaths The goal of this workshop is to develop a toolkit of ideas and strategies to minimize frustration and build better relationships.
Matt has been working with PHP professionally for 7 years and enjoys all aspects of web development. Matt is an active member of PHPMentoring and enjoys interacting with other members of the technology communities. When Matt isn't writing code he's probably playing guitar, drums or running. Matt has 2 wonderful, beautiful children that he enjoys spending as much time with as possible.
Introduction to OAuth
There are so many opportunities to connect and integrate popular services to our projects, but with all of the security concerns, can we really trust that our credentials are being handled with care? Do we really want the burden of maintaining credentials for other services for our users? Of course we don't! When a service provides an API for us to create and consume content, we want to trust that we can identify ourselves in the least intrusive way possible. OAuth allows us to make such requests securely, but it has a bad reputation for being difficult to implement and use. Never fear, this talk will break the protocol down into easy-to-understand steps, empowering you to provide your service, and use other services, with ease.
Mocking Dependencies in PHPUnit
Writing applications is hard work, and testing them is even harder. Does every test seem to require your database to be in a certain state? Do you find yourself having to change the data in the tests to get them to work correctly with a database or API? If so, you are not achieving the level of isolation needed to write solid unit tests. In this talk, we'll be covering test doubles which ensure that you can run your tests regardless of the state of your database or API. By mastering mock objects, you'll be writing powerful tests that build the level of confidence you have in your code.
Paddy Foran
DramaFever
Paddy is a software engineer working to make software hurt less. He loves Go, distributed systems, and service oriented architectures. Paddy is also silly, afraid of growing up, and unclear as to why people take him seriously. By day, he works as a software engineer at DramaFever. By night, he's Batman. Probably.
Becoming a GoPHPer
I want to share something I love with you: the Go programming language. I don't expect you to drop PHP for Go, nor do I wish to convince you that Go is better than PHP. I just want to expose you to some new ideas that made me a better programmer. My hope is that you can pick up some new ways of thinking about your code, just as I did. Failing that, I hope I can at least share something I'm passionate about with you. In this talk, we're not going to do a regular introduction to Go, where we step through each and every feature. Instead, I'm going to explain the things you may need to wrap your head around, coming from PHP; the things you may really enjoy, coming from PHP; and the things you may find to be problematic, coming from PHP. I want to give you a personalized introduction that will explain why you'd want to use Go, what you'd use it for, and why it might be difficult to get started with, all tailored to the background of the standard PHP developer.
Samantha Quinones
Samantha Quiñones is a veteran software engineer and lead developer at POLITICO.com. Before moving in to the digital media publishing space, she spent 15 years developing software in the network security and financial services industries. Since 2005, her focus has been on designing functional, scalable web services and applications and promoting software engineering as a profession and an art. Samantha is an active member of the Washington, DC open source community, occasional blogger, and process nerd.
Accelerating Web Applications with Varnish
The Varnish web accelerator has been the center of attention recently as more and more content providers realize its power and flexibility. More than just a simple caching proxy, Varnish lets us crack open the request - response cycle and take control of precisely how each and every request is served. Through practical examples, I'll demonstrate how websites of every size are using this powerful tool to maximize performance, improving the user's experience while eliminating back-end complexity. We'll explore the unique Varnish Control Language and discover how it can make your site delivery lighter, leaner, and lightning fast!
Stefan Koopmanschap
Ingewikkeld
Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP fanatic. He runs his company Ingewikkeld, does development, consulting and training. Stefan is a community person and has been active with several usergroups in The Netherlands since the 90s, currently involved in the local PHPAmersfoort usergroup. He has a weak spot for Symfony, but believes in combining multiple frameworks and libraries to get the job done.
How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application
Symfony2 is awesome, but can be overkill for some applications. During this talk, you will hear about a use case for using the Silex microframework for web and the Cilex microframework for CLI, and how these frameworks combined became the glue to the components of the media transcoding application that powers the majority of on-demand adaptive streaming for the Dutch public broadcasting organization NPO.
Build your first Symfony2 application
During this tutorial, you will get started with the Symfony2 framework, and build your first web application using the framework. We'll cover installation, configuration, bundles, controllers, working with the database and forms during this tutorial, and if we have some time left, we can go beyond those basic topics as well.
Stefan Willkommer
TechDivision GmbH
Stefan Willkommer studied computer science at the University of applied sciences in Rosenheim. During this time he started his entrepreneurship with several projects leading into founding the TechDivision GmbH as an internet support company for open source driven solutions in the area of content management and ecommerce. The Magento Gold Partner TechDivision become one of the leading companies in Europe for consulting, developing and supporting Magento Enterprise solutions. During the last 5 years Stefan Willkommer supervised lots of international Magento and TYPO3 projects for very well known customers like Ferrero, WMF and Ritter Sport. Within TechDivision he introduced lot's of market leading technologies in the area of deploying php applications and is addicted to lean project management methodology.
Threading in PHP
In August 2012 Joe Watkins introduced the Pthreads extension for PHP. Since then it is possible to use threads for asynchronous data handling in PHP as well. Now the extension is in a very promising state so it is definitely a look worth. The talk will show you the basics of using threads in PHP on the base of some real world examples. We will also have a look into interesting fields of future use. As parallelization and asynchronity is becoming more and more important this is a good way to step into some very interesting an promising fields.
Terry Chay
Terry Chay is Director of Features Engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. In previous lives, he worked at Automattic (WordPress), grew, architected, and sustained the third largest social network in the U.S., and developed the largest revenue-generating product for Plaxo (later purchased by Comcast) as their first web engineer.
Inside the Tech Challenges of Wikimedia Engineering
Wikipedia is the 5th largest website on the Internet, and there a number of factors that make it a veritable challenge for the engineering team: working with existing legacy infrastructure, leveraging innovative new technologies without pissing off the community, and doing it all without taking the site down or sacrificing performance. In this keynote, Wikimedia Director of Features Engineering Terry Chay will pull back the curtain on how Wikipedia tackles its technical hurdles, demonstrating how to apply creative approaches to sticky situations when managing and growing large-scale websites.
When: Conference Day 1: Wednesday, May 21st, 9:00a - 10:00a
Tim Lytle
timlytle.net ltd & Nexmo, Inc.
Tim has been a contract developer for the past 10 years. Generally working on API integrations and custom applications, Tim enjoys the Zend Framework, Doctrine2, and well-documented APIs. He's also the organizer of the Lehigh Valley PHP Meetup, and occasionally a developer evangelist for Nexmo.
Adventures in Contract Development
Thinking about quitting that desk job and enjoying the freedom of contract development? Before you do that: get a bit of perspective from another developer. Let me share my philosophy on contracting, and the tools I use to work for multiple clients and multiple projects every week while staying - arguably - sane. If you're already a contract developer, logging time, creating invoices, tracking which clients still haven't paid you - that's the best part of contract development, right? Learn how you can outsource it and stay focused on development, not management.
php[architect]
The training staff at php[architect] have deep PHP experience dating back to PHP3. They've spoken at numerous conferences and constantly offer online and in-person training on PHP and related web technologies.
Jump Start PHP Training
Are you starting down the path of becoming a PHP developer? Are you teaching yourself the language, regardless of whether you are a brand new programmer, or an experienced programmer in another language and just wanting to understand how PHP does things? Then this daylong course is for you. It will cover all the basics and get you writing your very first PHP program, accelerating your learning of PHP. It will cover at the minimum topics such as: Basic PHP Structure, Variables, Conditional Statements, Arithmetic , Loops, Functions, HTML Forms, and the Basics of Object Oriented Programming.
When: Training Day: Monday, May 19th, 9:00a - 12:30p


Carlson Food Safety Consulting | CCOF - Organic certification, education and outreach, advocacy and leadership since 1973.
If you need a food safety plan, risk assessment, program development or training, I can help. If I can't be of service, I may know others who can. After all, creating relationships and giving back are the cornerstones of a diverse professional network that promotes a reliable safe food source.


STMicroelectronics, a leading name in the global semiconductor industry, has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new a motion and orientation Human Interface Device (HID) sensor solution, likely to be featured on Windows 8.
A demonstration of the new sensor technology will be conducted at the Microsoft BUILD conference.
"By working with Microsoft to make our sensors run on Windows 8 using the iNEMO Engine, ST's HID sensor solution delivers plug-and-play, turn-key benefits on both x86 and ARM processors running the new operating system," Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Product Group, Benedetto Vigna said in a statement.
"We have relieved equipment manufacturers of the need to develop drivers and enabled end users to enjoy the Windows 8 sensor scenarios such as screen rotation or indoor location built in Windows 8," he added.