Beauty of Web - phpXperts Seminar 2010
Almost 1 month ago phpXperts moderator Hasin Hayder announced phpXperts Seminar 2010. It was a beginning of a new journey. Rising Developers (fresh graduates), Students, Rising Entrepreneurs has no connection with the industry standards. phpXperts’ intentions were to bridge the developers with mature industry and it’s current trends.
Many people claims they are developers/experts/professionals, but without any communication with the industry, it’s not easy to understand the industry demands, which will develop themselves.
Omi Azad came with the opening presentation titled Professionalism Inside Out. This presentation was a guide to the audience by telling them what to avoid and what to adopt to become a professional.
Configure your production Server by Yourself presented by S.M. Ibrahim Lavlu. For the very first time Lavlu made a public presentation, but audience did get some knowledge on how to deploy a LAMPP server.
After that MS Alam Trivuz came with the presentation Running at Maximum HP without Tearing Apart. This presentation was also a guide to the professionals on how they can get maximum output of themselves.
After that Javascript Wash presented by M A Hossain Tonu. The objectives of the presentation were, how developers can optimize their JavaScript source codes for their website or web application.
Developing Better PHP Projects was presented by Emran Hasan. It did not highlight how you can write PHP codes, but it emphasized on how you can work on your projects in a managed way, so that you make perfect delivery on perfect time.
After that we gave floor to 2 sponsors to say something about their company, activities and openings.
Even Better Debugging came after that and presented very well by Murshed Ahmmad Khan. He focused on how you can debug your projects faster/smoother and in a professional industry standard way.
Expert Arafat Rahman came with the presentation Web Application Development Using MVC Framework (Kohana) and highlighted about MVC framework, Kohana as MVC framework, how to install/configure & use in your project.
Getting control of your source code, manage version of your code is always a part of the game. Git: Stupid, Fast and Distributed Content Tracker was presented by Mozammel Haque. Very professional explanation on how to manage source, why to manage source and how Git can ease the version/source controlling.
jQuery is a very popular among web developers. Ziaul Haq Zia came with his presentation jQuery plugin development. The presentation was very simple and effective.
How you can scale your network by using Facebook Graph API on your network and that was the title of Saidur Rahman Bijon. As Facebook related development is very popular, audience enjoyed the session very much.
CodeMan! With NoSQL! was the title of NHM Tanveer Hasan Khan’s presentation. It was something about using some DB system, which will balance your HUGE traffic/request. The presenter himself said that developers don’t need to know this in general but they will need to learn and follow the instructions if they are working with a big database, traffic, request.
After that we gave floor to 2 sponsors to say something about their company, activities and openings.
HTML5 is not finalize by W3C yet but Browsers are getting ready for next generation web language. Zakir Hossain Raju represented HTML5 with his presentation. He focused the features of HTML5, explained the browser compatibility very well.
Many of the PHP developers have no idea what Framework is. Nurul Ferdous came with his presentation Running with Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework 1.10. Ferdous explained many technical things but he could not concentrate on how to invite developers to use frameworks.
Many developers fascinated about porting web applications into Desktop and Desktop Apps with Web Techs was the topic by Abu Ashraf Masnun. This was a exciting presentation.
A good programmer follows some standards for coding his program and there are some tricks you can follow on your OOP codes. In Standard Coding, OOP Techniques and Code Re-use presentation Rayhan Chowdhury explained how you can do all that and also Re-use your code.
After that again we gave floor to 2 sponsors to say something about their company, activities and openings.
CodeIgniter is a very popular PHP framework. ACL in CodeIgniter was Mizanur Rahman’s presentation title and explained Access Control List in CodeIgniter.
Server caching can save your bandwidth and your money. So Anis Uddin Ahmad came with his presentation Cache to Save Your Cash and explained the caching system
So you want to start your own Startup? Kickstarting Your Startup was the title of Hasin Hayder’s presentation, which encouraged the audience to starting their own business. Audience got a good idea what to do, where to start and where to sell.
Brac University Computer Club helped phpXperts to organize the event at BRAC University auditorium. 200 audience were present in the room, 250 more audiences were accommodated in the cafeteria through live video feed and for the very first time in Bangladesh approximately 2500 audience saw the event live through http://phpxperts.net. Live online broadcast courtesy http://comjagat.com
Leevio, Right Brain Solution Ltd., Shabaka Soft Ltd., Live Outsource, Informatix Technologies, Microsoft, Tasawar Interactive and Vantage Bangladesh sponsored the event and 5 other companies sponsored the prizes, which have been distributed through quizzes in between the sessions.
Omi Azad was the anchor of the event & presented the event very well. Both physical and online audiences appreciated the presentation and we must quote a part of his speech, which became the best part of the event. The situation was, there were 2 Apple Macbooks in front of the presentation field. Presenters were using both of them to display the same presentation both in the hall and the cafeteria, they had to use both machines as the projector Y cable was not working well. In the middle of the program Omi said, “Just got an SMS from someone in this room, which says, ‘Microsoft is one of the sponsors of this event, then why 2 Macbooks are on the presentation desk?’ Well, I have the perfect answer for you. We keep 2 Macbooks on the desk to show you that you need 2 Macs to do 1 PCs job. :)”