Rowan Merewood

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 code is not the sexiest topic out there, but it’s definitely something that a lot of us have to deal with on a 9 ’til 5 basis. One day, I might be in a position to do nothing but play with shiny new technologies and never care about supporting them but until then the rent still needs paying – so it’s worth finding ways to make that as enjoyable as possible.

Of course, I can’t give too much away – you’ll just have to come along and see! You can have a tiny sneak preview via my profile on the site though. Turns out speaking off the cuff in an interview is really quite hard. Still, maybe someone will suggest somewhere to get good waffles.

Perhaps the only down side to the whole thing is that I’m opposite Fabien Potencier giving a talk on “Dependency  Injection in PHP 5.2 and 5.3″ which I’d really like to see!