Last weekend I gave the opening keynote at PHPNW14. The talk was recorded, and no, the video isn’t online yet. The basis of the talk was centered around community and how we can come together (and how we are drifting apart). But there was one point that I mentioned that I think requires further thought and discussion. And that point is that there is far less trolling going on than it may seem at first glance.

Yesterday I was asked a rather interesting question about presenting technical presentations. While I don’t think my method will work for everyone, I feel it’s a good thing to talk about. So here’s my method, and some advice that I would give first time presenters:

I will be speaking several times in the coming months at several conferences in the US and Europe. I hope to see you at one of these events!

Today, I’m doing a talk at DrupalCon Portland 2013 on Static analysis and code metrics. Here are the slides for that talk. When the videos are posted, I’ll make a followup post that links to it. Click through for the slides!

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything here or on YouTube. I’ve been working on some interesting ideas that hopefully will be pretty decent, so it wasn’t time wasted. But I figured now would be a good time to tell you about some upcoming speaking engagements that I have, and where I’ll be over the next few months. So with no further adue:

I’ve got a few talks coming up in the near future, so if you can make one of these events, be sure to come say hi to me!

This afternoon, I gave another talk at TrueNorth PHP. The talk is a version of a previous talk that I gave on Object Oriented Design. I’ve changed it significantly, so here are the slides.

This morning, I gave a talk at TrueNorth PHP. The talk was aimed at explaining the basics of Cryptography as needed for the average developer. It is intended to give a high level understanding of cryptography and cryptographic techniques. So, with no further adue, here’s the slides:

Last week, I was at PHP North West. The conference was incredible to say the least. One of the best I’ve been to in a very long time. But to the point of this post, I did an unconference talk about password hashing in PHP. Since I had my camera with me, I also took video of it. So included in this post is both the slides from the talk, and the video of the talk. So, with no further adue:

Well, I know it’s been a while since my last post here. I’ve been keeping busy (but also working on some cool stuff for you all, when the time is right). I figured that it was worth while pointing out a few upcoming talks that I’m going to be giving and conferences that I’ll be attending.