Tom Graham

I’ve just finished getting my things together ready for the PHPNW conference in Manchester this weekend. This will be my first conference attendance so I’m really looking forward to it, especially so as there is a nice community feel to it.

I have spent awhile deciding which talks to attend, this is my plan:

• KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) - Derick Rethans
• MySQL EXPLAIN Explained - Adrian Hardy
• Regular Expression Basics - Ciarán Walsh
• The Power of Refactoring - Stefan Koopmanschap
• Index and Search, options for PHP programmers - Zoe Slattery (although a little torn as I’m also really interested in Johannes’ talk on PHP 5.3)
• Exploiting PHP with PHP - Arpad Ray
• Panel Discussion

I plan on live blogging my thoughts on each of the talks, so if you’re not attending then get subscribed to my RSS feed.

Aside from all the great talks, I’m looking forward to meeting lots of interesting people. So anyone reading this who is attending, please say hello if you see me. Here are a range of expressions so I can be recognised no matter how happy, crazy or confused I look.