http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress Strength in Unity Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:21:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The article contest running on PHPWomen.org through July just got more exciting.  We have asked people to post entries to our Best Practices forum.  The authors of the best two entries will win copies of Zend Studio for Eclipse.  We're happy to announce that in addition to this the two winners will ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/07/02/article-contest-update/ We are pleased to announce a competition here on the phpwomen.org site!  As our regular users will know, most of our content is on our forums - and its here that the competition will run. To enter the competition all you have to do is submit a short article to our ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/06/24/phpwomen-article-competition/ Meet Ghica van Emde Boas. Ghica is one of our Dutch members, herself a published author. She attended the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam last weekend, and was generous enough to donate three signed copies of her own book which went to assist some of the local ladies ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/06/19/dutch-php-conference-experience/ At the weekend there was the Dutch PHP Conference, at which phpwomen were able to have a stand.  Out of 370 or so attendees we counted 8 women, which is a very low ratio indeed, lower than any other event I've seen so far.  I had taken 50 t-shirts to ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/06/16/phpwomen-at-dpc/ What is there to say... Day 2 was another hectic day filled with "womaning" the PHPWomen's booth and attending a number of sessions (INFORMATION_SCHEMA tour, Performance under a Microscope - the Tobias and Jay show, Benchmark and Monitoring Tools (P1), and Deadlocks). Again met a number of wonderful attendees ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/04/18/mysql-conference-day-2-and-3/ Today has been a fabulous day - MySQL really knows how to throw a party... umm Conference. Yesterday had the tutorials and I have to admit that the ones I attended (Advanced Stored Procedures and Memcache) were incredibly interesting and highly relevant. Learned about some things that aren't ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/04/15/mysql-conference-day-0-and-1/ Leap Year Day, 29th February 2008, saw the annual London PHP Conference. PHPWomen were lucky enough to be able to get a stand at this conference to promote our organisation, and it was a great opportunity to get together and meet all the women that were able to be ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/03/05/phpwomen-at-phplondon/ BarCampMelbourne2008 was, simply put, AWESOME! BarCampMelbourne2008 was held at Thoughtworks [wikipedia] at 155 Queen Street, Melbourne on 23 Feb 08, and had approximately 60 in attendance. Key observations from the day included: The vast majority of attendees were male, with myself and only one other female attendee It was surprising to note the ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/02/23/barcampmelbourne-2008-rundown/ I am pleased and proud to announce that PHPWomen and DevChix have formed an alliance with each other that will hopefully help to strengthen both sites and their communities by providing mutual support. Working together we will hopefully be able to do much more then we would do apart. I ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/02/05/phpwomen-and-devchix/ PHP elePHPants - get your PHP elePHPants here. Cal Evans from the Zend DevZone - being the awesome guy that he is - has graciously offered to mail out to the first 10 people who donate to PHPWomen $50 or more, a PHP elePHPant. Yep - you get one of ... http://www.phpwomen.org/wordpress/2008/01/17/elephpants/