Posts by: Adam Smith

• PHPNE 2013 Conference Report March 22, 2013

  As a native geordie I was pleased to have a chance to attend a PHP conference in the north east. Even after living in Manchester for nearly a decade now, Newcastle still feels like home. Despite the nostalgia of revisiting the Tyneside Cinema for the first time in many years, I was a little apprehensive about it's suitability as a conference venue – I couldn't help but recall the regular disturbances to films watched there, caused by the noisy metro line passing underneath the building. I'm pleased to report that I was wrong to doubt the choice, the venue and staff were excellent throughout as we took over both the third and fourth floors of the building.

  I arrived in plenty of time to enjoy the complimentary bacon sandwich and coffee on offer before finding some faces I recognised and settling in to the Electra Room where the main track was due to start, with Inviqa's very own Rowan Merewood taking to the stage to deliver the opening keynote. (more...)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• Do You Need A Multiregion Website Deployment? July 9, 2012

  In this age of cloud computing, it has become far easier to choose, or even move, the geographical location of your web server. It has also brought high-availability solutions such as hosting simultaneously in multiple locations into the reach of a even very modest applications. But where is the best place to host your site? And are the improvements worth the effort of distributing your servers across the world?

  Armed with a few simple tools, you can come a long way to answering these questions fairly quickly. (more...)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• PHPUK 2012 Conference Report March 5, 2012

  This year's PHP UK was my first, so I was not entirely sure what I should expect. Upon arriving at the business design centre, my first impression was that it is an excellent venue for a conference. So much so that two were running in parallel, Stampex - the British national stamp exhibition - being PHP UK's companion on both days. (more...)