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	<title>Rowan Merewood &#187; Talks</title>
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		<title>Sensible Scaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A talk for my first ever visit to Spain and PHP Barcelona 2011. Abstract as follows: It’s fun to architect your application to handle millions of pageviews, but in reality that’s time where you could be adding features. We’ll examine some practical solutions for designing your platform to deal with increasing traffic and how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estimation or, &#8220;How to Dig your own Grave&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My talk for the 2011 edition of PHPNW11 and then at the PHPBenelux conference in 2012. Abstract as follows: Clients need to know how much a project will cost. Waterfall development is always late and over-budget. Agile development is done when it's done. You're left with estimates that you know are too low and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dependency Injection Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another talk for the PHPNW user group meeting. This time an introduction to dependency injection and the associated benefits. You can use the slideshare view below or download the original PDF: A Dependency Injection Primer A Dependency Injection Primer View more presentations from Rowan Merewood]]></description>
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		<title>TDD and Getting Paid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This talk was given at the 2011 edition of 4Developers and then again at the same year's Dutch PHP Conference. Abstract as follows: Test-driven development is generally regarded as a good move. However, just getting unit tests in on a real, commercial project is hard - switching to TDD is even harder. Defining concrete answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Applications of Zend_Acl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This talk saw me going back to PHPNW10 to deliver it. Abstract as follows: Access Control Lists are a tool that allows us to map permissions to objects - within Zend_Acl this maps to a hierarchical arrangement of roles and resources. This talk will follow through the basic use of Zend_Acl and steadily build a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algorithm, Review, Sorting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lightning talk for the PHPNW user group meeting in the summer of 2010. A quick review of some common sorting algorithms with basic PHP implementations included. You can use the slideshare view below or download the original PDF: Algorith, Review, Sorting Algorithm, Review, Sorting View more presentations from Rowan Merewood]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Legacy Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My third conference talk that got me over to PHP Benelux 2010 and back to PHP UK 2010 as well. Abstract as follows: Legacy code is a burden that few developers are lucky enough to avoid in their professional lives. We'll look at how legacy code develops and some of the early warning signs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools and Talent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second conference talk from PHPNW 2009. Abstract as follows: A development environment is a pretty personal choice, but when youve got over twenty developers all working on the same codebase, you need to start deciding on some standards. You need to find the options that aid your productivity, rather than restrict you with unnecessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Machines to State of the Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first conference talk which I delivered back at PHP UK 2009. Abstract as follows: Web applications are everywhere now, but many of them misuse the basic concepts laid down by the HTTP protocol, miss the benefits of making the application and the API the same thing, and don't set themselves up to grow if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking at PHPBenelux 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased, and not a little bit excited, to confirm that I will be giving the talk "Living with Legacy Code" at this year's PHPBenelux conference. It's over in Antwerp on the 30th January so will also be a chance to visit Belgium again - something I haven't done in almost 15 years. Legacy [...]]]></description>
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