12 articles tagged conference.
A speaker's review of Dutch PHP Conference 2026 - from standout talks on Laravel, Rust and WebAssembly to hallway conversations, unexpected ideas, and the enduring magic of in-person events.
My experience speaking at ConFoo 2026 in Montréal — two talks, a brilliant technical crowd, some excellent sessions, and a city that is genuinely something else in winter.
My experience speaking at Build Stuff 2025 in Vilnius. A look at the brilliant sessions, the unique speaker support, and the festive atmosphere of Lithuania in December!
In June 2025, I spoke at IPC Berlin about idempotency - what it is, how it protects our APIs, and what goes wrong when we forget about it! It was a great conference, in a fascinating city.
In May 2025 I spoke at the CyberwiseCon / DevDays Europe event in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was a week of firsts - first time delivering a new talk, first time in Vilnius. Success on both fronts!
In May 2025 I went to Stripe's annual conference, Sessions, in San Francisco, to hear first-hand about the future of payments.
The Dutch PHP Conference in March 2025 was a great couple of days, where I got the opportunity to talk all about idempotency, and do it in a unique conference setting.
In November 2024, I spoke at IPC Munich about how backend developers can improve front end speed. There were fantastic talks at the conference, in a wonderful city worth a visit!
In June 2024, I had the pleasure of speaking at the PHPers Summit, in Poznan, Poland. My talk was about the quick wins available for backend developers who need to improve front end page speed.
PHP UK is a fantastic developer conference which I have enjoyed attending many times in the past. This year was a little different, as I took to the stage for the first time!
I recently appeared on Evervault's Decrypt podcast, and had a great time! We talked about the importance of developing empathy for users, product roadmap challenges, issues adding AI to dev workflows, and managing the transition from a development role to a leadership one.
At the Dublin leg of the 2014 Agile Tour, I gave a talk based on my experience leading a team's agile transition from a classic waterfall approach. When preparing our move to agile, I found it fairly easy to find the success stories from other company's transitions. However, during our transition, we hit some rocky patches along the way, often making us question the whole transition. So for my talk I focused a little more on the things that went awry for us along the journey – what can happen when a number of smart people make what look like sensible, low-risk calls which turn out to be neither!