DPC News

We are delighted to announce our main schedule for the Dutch PHP Conference is now available! This covers our tutorial day and main conference days for the event on 10th-12th June at RAI in Amsterdam. Our speakers include Chris Shiflett, Sebastian Bergmann, Kevlin Henney, Elizabeth Naramore, David Soria Parra, Rob Allen and many more for three days of high-calibre technical content and discussion. See the full schedule at http://phpconference.nl/schedule and if you'd like to join us you can take advantage of our early bird prices when you register http://phpconference.nl/register

After a succesful WinPHP challenge at the Dutch PHP Conference last year, we're excited to be part of the 2010 edition of the contest!

In this contest developers are encouraged to develop PHP applications using Microsoft technologies. The exact rules can be found on http://www.eurowinphp.com/the-challenge. Registration is required to take part in this competition: Registration starts on 15 February 2010.

The contest's main prize is an incredible package: it includes a trip to Microsoft's MIX event in Las Vegas (including hotel and flight), an Xbox and a Windows Mobile phone. And that's just the main prize. There's a 2nd and 3d prize as well.

Once all contestants have been registered, they are allowed to develop their entry for the contest. Starting April 1^st contestants will have access to their own development server, provided by LeaseWeb, right up until 1^st of June, at which point the jury will start evaluating the entries. The jury consists of Remi Woler (PHPBenelux staff member, Zend employee and PHP community member, Ivo Jansch (DPC organizer and Ibuildings CTO) and Bram Veenhof, Microsoft's developer evangelist and community liaison. Programming skills, idea, application quality, transparency (blogging, tweeting) and level of integration with Microsoft technologies are all elements that the jury will take into account. Last year's winner developed a component for Microsoft SQLServer that eventually ended up in the Zend Framework, which the jury found very impressive. To see how the contestants are doing, they should write at least one blog post a week to report their progress and share their findings.

For the complete rules of the competition, what we will be judging on and the requirements of the application check out http://www.eurowinphp.com/the-challenge.

The finale will be during the closing of the Dutch PHP Conference on June 12th at which point Microsoft will announce the winners!

We hope you'll be as excited about this contest as we are, so check it out at http://www.eurowinphp.com!

The call for papers is closed and our schedule is almost ready to be announced.  As a result the "Blind Bird" ticket offer will no longer
be valid and from Monday 15th February, our Early Bird prices will be available.  So if you're planning to join us for this event in
Amsterdam this June - register before Monday!

The DPC Call for Papers closed last night and the submissions have been outstanding in both quality and quantity! We had 66% more submissions than last year and our panel are now working hard on evaluating the sessions to build an excellent schedule. While that happens we thought we would share some statistics of where in the world our talks came from:

With plenty of great submissions from across Europe and further afield, this year's DPC promises to be better than ever - tickets are still on sale at the cheapest "blind bird" prices, so called because they are only available until the schedule is published so you have to buy before you can see exactly which sessions are included. We hope to see you in Amsterdam in June!

If you plan to submit to our call for papers, this video might give you some inspiration; it covers some of last year's high tech content:

Dutch PHP Conference - Last year's topics from Ibuildings on Vimeo.

Good news!  The Call for Papers for DPC (Dutch PHP Conference) 2010 is now open!

The event will be held in or around Amsterdam from 10th to 12th June 2010.  Thursday 10th is tutorial day, and Friday 11th and Saturday 12th are our main conference days.  We're looking for high-quality, technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audiences entertained.  Tutorials are 3 or 6 hours in length (note that 6 hours is our preference) and the standard conference sessions should be 45 minutes.

This year we're excited about many different topics, perhaps the best way to describe it is to say that if  its related to PHP and you are excited about, then we want to hear it!  It doesn't matter who you are, this event is all about the technologies.  DPC has an established reputation as the best place to expand a developer's skill set and improve existing practice and that remains our focus for this year. In particular we'd like to receive proposals regarding emerging technologies, performance and scalability, platforms and best practices - so if you have an idea, please share it with us.

Submit as many talks as you like using our submission form, we'll ask for the title, a description of your session, and some information about you and why we should accept your session - this isn't published and its your chance to sell your session to us.  If you are accepted we'll pay your travel costs, put you up in a hotel, and give you a pass to the conference so you can join us for the duration of this excellent event.

The call for papers is open until 31st January, so get the submissions coming!

Speakers and attendees will also be interested to hear that this year, DPC will include an unconference in collaboration with PHPBenelux! We're thrilled to include this in our packed schedule for the first time; an entire section of the conference will be driven by the attendees at the event itself - and we can't wait to see what you come up with ...

Your host this year,
Lorna Jane Mitchell