phpbnl16 Archives - Thijs Feryn

21 Mar

Victor Welling of Coolblue – e-commerce & tech at Coolblue

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Coolblue is a well-known e-commerce company that operates in the Benelux area. Coolblue primarily focuses on consumer electronics, but the types of products they still becomes increasingly broader. Over the last couple of years, Coolblue has become one of this companies that everyone

16 Mar

Peter Maynard – An Englishman in Belgium, Microsoft, Liverpool & banter

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This episode was recorded at the PHPBenelux Conference 2016. I also wrote a blog post about the event. Who is Peter Maynard? Peter Maynard is a Senior Audience Evangelism Manager at Microsoft. He focusses on Emerging Audiences and is part

22 Feb

Derick Rethans – MongoDB, Xdebug & PHP

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Derick Rethans is my guest for this episode. The interview was recorded at PHPBenelux Conference 2016 in the community village. Who is Derick Rethans? Derick Rethans is a Dutchman who lives in London. He recently became an official British

15 Feb

Cal Evans – Personal branding, developer advocacy & community

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Cal Evans is my guest on this episode of the show. The interview was recorded at PHPBenelux Conference 2016. Cal Evans was invited as the keynote speaker which he was very excited about. He had keynoted our very first edition back in 2010 and

08 Feb

Bastian Hofmann – Talking about ResearchGate, Berlin & PHPBenelux

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Bastian Hofmann My friend Bastian Hofmann was flying to Brussels to speak at the PHPBenelux Conference that I organize. I picked him up from the airport, put him in my car and talked to him about his work, the city

05 Feb

Making the PHPBenelux Conference happen

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The PHPBenelux Conference edition 2016 took place last week in Antwerpen (Belgium). As an organizer, I’m really happy with the end result. I like to think that our attendees, speakers and sponsors also enjoyed it. It’s the 7th time we organize