Two ZendCon proposals
I submitted two 400-character proposals to ZendCon yesterday.
Someone else’s symfony
Taking on development of a symfony application started by another developer can be a daunting task, especially for those not familiar with the framework. This will be a practical exploration of symfony from the perspective of a developer taking on an existing project. Topics will include getting started, automated testing, the anatomy of a symfony request, refactoring and symfony best practices.
I think this is a really juicy topic I’ve never seen covered. The current symfony documentation is geared toward either someone new to symfony starting a new project or someone experienced with symfony working on an existing project. I think the population of devs new to symfony on an existing project could use some luv. This also seems like a new and refreshing way to introduce symfony.
The Community Stack
A vital ingredient to any open source project is a vibrant community. Drawing from his experience as Community Manager for the symfony framework, Kris will examine the makeup of a successful “community stack” and propose three basic layers: devs/users, the larger OSS community, and the society as a whole. How these layers interact and grow will be the focus of this session.
The idea here is to acknowledge the importance of community in an open source project with the same significance you would any other solution stack you depend on. I’ve been working on some meat for each of those three layers, but haven’t had a chance to give this talk yet. Here’s hoping that will change!
