Conference Types
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There are two kinds of conferences: Those where you invest in the community and those from which you reap a return on that investment. Which kind of conference do you attend more often?
2014
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Hyper-VVV on Windows
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It took me a little trial and error to set up, but this weekend I managed to port my entire WordPress development stack not just to a new machine, but also to a new virtualization provider – Hyper-V.
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What is your Digital Footprint?
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Applications that used to fit in a few megabytes now consume a gigabyte – or more – to do essentially the same thing. I find this development a bit disturbing.
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Life is Precious
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My trip home from Brazil took far longer than expected.
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Thought Leadership
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A thought leader has to do more than think about problems.
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Client-side Productivity Tools with Node
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I’ve been a fan of Node since we were first introduced in 2011. Unfortunately, it’s taken me a few years to come up with a compelling business use for Node.
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Differentiation and Diversity
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I’d rather learn something new and struggler at it than be at the top of my game with nowhere to go but down.
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Unexpected Networking
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I honestly feel I did more talking and networking while stuck in remote airports and hotels than I’ve ever done at a conference.
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PHP, Security, and Lambdas
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If you’re writing PHP code and you want to use lambda functions, don’t use PHP’s create_function() method. It’s insecure, and will be flagged as such by security software and analysts.
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Monkeys in the Machine
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Not everyone could be at JSConf BR, so I wanted to give you all a glimpse of the awesomeness that is the worker API.