Sebastian Bergmann

By popular demand, I am now also offering the three-day workshop on Quality Assurance in PHP Projects in Sydney.

Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

Now that we know how to build applications that "just work", are fast and scalable, as well as secure, the next logical step is to implement processes and use techniques that help us assure that the software works correctly throughout the software’s lifecycle.

This three-day workshop will introduce the attendees to writing unit tests for the backend and system tests for the frontend of a web application as well as managing the quality from development to deployment and maintainance using tools such as PHPUnit, Selenium RC, phpUnderControl, PHP_CodeSniffer, and PHP_Depend.

The workshop will be held in Sydney, Australia on Mon 8 Dec - Wed 10 Dec 2008.

Secure your seat today!

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at OSDC 2008 later this year.

Type-Safe Objects in PHP

Out-of-the-Box, PHP does not support the declaration of a type for the attributes of a class. This can lead to problems when you expose a PHP class as a Web Service and want to automatically generate the WSDL from the class' sourcecode, for instance.

Against the backdrop of this problem statement, this session will make the audience familiar with PHP's __get() and __set() interceptors while an annotations-based solution for the problem is developed. The session also highlights existing annotation frameworks for PHP and shows additional use cases.

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. This year, the fifth annual conference will be in Sydney during the first week of December (2nd - 5th).

My PHPUnit Workshop in Melbourne starts in less than three weeks from now. The week after that will see my PHPUnit Workshop in Brisbane.

A few seats are still available for both of these workshops. Secure your seat today! I am also available for in-house training, coaching, and consulting around the days of the workshops.

I will visit the Melbourne PHP User Group on August 7 2008 and probably the Brisbane PHP User Group on August 12 2008.