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Technical conferences make business sense

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Alan Seiden

With COMMON’s conference starting in little over a week, I’ve written a blog post to show how managers can achieve a compelling return on investment (ROI) by sending their staff to technical conferences. Read “Send your technical staff to conferences” … Continue reading →

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Toolkit webcast tomorrow, April 5

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Alan Seiden

Tomorrow I’m presenting a new webcast, New PHP Toolkit from Zend and IBM: Open Source on IBM i, as part of System i Network’s free “Virtual Conference.” Date: Thursday, April 5 Time: 11:15am ET Registration (free): http://tinyurl.com/new-toolkit-20120405 Other presentations in … Continue reading →

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Zend/PHP 2011 Photos, Part 1 (IBM i)

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Alan Seiden

IBM i had a solid presence at ZendCon, the Zend/PHP conference. IBM itself was a sponsor and staffed a booth (Tim Rowe and Tony Cairns). Here are a few photos from the conference. I’ll post more when I get time.

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NEUGC and COMMON are coming right up

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Alan Seiden

Next week I’ll be in Framingham to present at the Northeast System i Users Groups Conference (NEUGC). In early May,  it’s Minneapolis for the COMMON 2011 annual meeting. Here are the dates and places of these great conferences: NEUGC: April … Continue reading →

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ZendCon 2010

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Alan Seiden

The 2010 “Zend/PHP Conference” welcomed the full range of the PHP community: open source contributors, small businesses, practitioners of diverse technologies and platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and IBM i, and the largest names in technology and business: Adobe, GE, … Continue reading →

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Rocking at COMMON

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Alan Seiden

COMMON’s fall conference and expo in San Antonio was the first of its kind, and a first for me as well. It marked my debut as a speaker for COMMON, as I presented three sessions about PHP on IBM i. … Continue reading →

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VTMUG friends

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Alan Seiden

I had a great time yesterday at the annual conference of VTMUG (Vermont Midrange Users Group).  I gave two talks about PHP on IBM i. I got to watch Skip Marchesani give a talk about the IBM i’s SQL Script … Continue reading →

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