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Open Sourcing Mental Illness Conference TV
The great nonprofit that I help out with Open Sourcing Mental Illness has an ever increasing presence at conferences. We've been stepping up our booth visibility lately by adding a nice tablecloth as well as the purchase of a TV to have a looping video playing on to lure conference goers to our table. Originally we played video from an iPhone or laptop via an HDMI cable. I thought there would be...
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php[tek] 2017 Training Day Requirements
I’m excited for php[tek] 2017. This will be my fourth year attending the conference and I always have a blast. I am again giving a full day of Laravel Training before the main conference. To fully participate in the training exercises you'll want to follow the directions below. Please reach out to me if you have any issues. Laravel Valet is a fine solution if you’d prefer not to have to...
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Midwest PHP 2017 Short Recap
I was invited to speak at Midwest PHP 2017 to give my “DevOps for Small Teams” talk. I’m always excited to head up north because I’ve always had amazing experiences with the community there. Also a conference on my birthday weekend this year sounded like a great idea. The speaker dinner event was fantastic, nice finger food with fellow speakers and getting to know new friends and...
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Sunshine PHP 2017 -- Create Your Own Local Development Environments With Vagrant
Excited to be heading back to Sunshine PHP 2017 in Miami. This year it's even better since the wife will be joining me again and her birthday is the first day of the conference. I'm not sure who made out better, me getting to go to a conference on my wife's birthday, or my wife getting a trip to Miami for her birthday? We'll call it a wash since it's going to be a great time for both of us. This...
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