The Program
Friday 10th August, 2012
CICONF doesn't start properly until Saturday but we'll be heading to Mars Bar and staying between 7pm and 9pm. It's a great little bar, but bring your wallets - the free drinks will be on Saturday!
Saturday 11th August, 2012
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10:00 - 11:00
Phil Sturgeon
Phil has been developing websites with CodeIgniter since 2006 and works using it nearly every day.
CodeIgniter 3.0
Learn what is new in CodeIgniter 3.0, the awesome next version of your favourite framework.
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11:00 - 12:00
Tyler Flint
Tyler Flint is Chief Architect at Pagoda Box. He's fluent in C, Objective C, Java, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Ajax, SQL, Erlang and Spanish.
Pagoda Box
12.00 - 13.00 Grab lunch
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13:00 - 14:00
Aaron Kuzemchak
Aaron is a Web developer working at Visual Chefs / eecoder as their Senior Application Developer.
Don't Make Me Read Your Mind
Aaron will present some tips and best practices to keeping your code documented and well-organized so that other developers who look at your work later won't want to strangle you.
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14:00 - 15:00
Erik Giberti
Erik is a Senior Developer at JD Supra, building the leading platform for distribution of legal content online.
Work Queues
Queues can provide parallel processing, cross language scripting and more! The talk will use Gearman, but will also touch on some alternatives. We will cover some use cases, walk through a real world example, and discuss some benefits of adding this technology to your stack.
15.00 - 15.30 Take a break
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15:30 - 16:30
John Crepezzi
John is a PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript developer from New York. He is a Reactor Engineer, and co-created CodeIgniter Sparks.
Performance
John will be discussing some ways to improve performance in all parts of your stack. From your database, to PHP, through CodeIgniter - and straight to client-side scripts & styles.
19.00 - 21.00 Evening Social: Head to Jillians and ask for the CodeIgniter Conference party!
Sunday 12th August, 2012
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10:00 - 11:00
Ben Edmunds
Ben works for Kforce Government Solutions building web-based applications for the U.S. DoD Intelligence community. He is also the founder of DblTap Labs and the co-founder of AppStucco.
Your API Sucks
Learn how to build awesome API systems using the RESTful approach.
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11:00 - 12:00
Kenny Katzgrau
Kenny is a software developer in New York. He is a Reactor Engineer, and co-created CodeIgniter Sparks.
Become a Professional Chef
Kenny will walk through the basics of the popular deployment tool named chef, and how to get up and running with it CodeIgniter and Amazon AWS. By the end of this session you'll be able to whip up new virtual machines with your full software stack from a single command.
12.00 - 13.00 Pizza sponsored by CampaignMonitor
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13:00 - 14:00
Better than Ad hoc
Building great applications is about a few fundamental principles: Code reuse, Lifetime maintainability, Loose coupling, Managed complexity.
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14:00 - 14:30
Chris Miller
Chris is a software developer based in New York. He is a senior developer at The Huffington Post by day and can be found hacking on a wide variety of projects at night.
TBC
TBC
14:30 - 15.00 Take a break
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15:00 - 16:00
Adam Jackett
Adam has been using CodeIgniter almost exclusively since 2008 and has contributed to projects such as Pancake Payments, the Postmark library and CodeIgniter itself.
Pretty Good Practices/Productivity
TBC
We don't officially plan any evening events on the Sunday, but some people will no doubt want to hang out. We'll most likely pick a bar on the day and stick directions on the board, but it will not be "official".
