PHPBenelux 2011 Lorna Mitchell Ivo
Jansch

1. See This Talk

2. Participate In Communities

3. Build Relationships, Not Systems

“The greatest missing skill is
somebody who's both good at understanding the engineering and who has good relationships with the hard-core engineers, and bridges that to working with the customers.” Bill Gates

4. Use Analogies

5. Learn To Speak Manager

BINGO CHART Planning Revenue Mindshare
Stock Win-Win Paradigm Stake- Spin-off Mission holder Eyeballs Profit Monetize CxO Downsize Branding

6. Teach

7. Learn To Google

Would I Generalize be the
A Problem the only one? Problem Yes No Solved Minimize Found Broad Scenario Search Found Get help Narrow Search Post

8. Ask Questions But Learn
To Fish

"Give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Chinese Proverb

9. Keep Reading

#linktuesday
http://phpdeveloper.org
http://techportal.ibuildings.com
http://devzone.zend.com
http://phparch.com

10. Plan Ahead

11. Take It One Step
At A Time

Pick a new technology Master
Explore Get Comfortable

12. Keep Your Hands Dirty

13. Less = More

“Perfection is achieved, not when
there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Conference Speaker Event Entity Organizer
Person Attendee ok better bad

14. Code For Today

15. Cut Your Losses

16. Reflect

Evaluate Apply Learn Improve Continuous
Evaluation

17. Be Organized

18. Inside Out vs Outside
In

19. Learn Other Languages

<?php
System.out.print(‘Hello’);
?>

20. Take Distance

21. Bitwise Problem Search

Good Bad r1 r484 r968
Good Bad Bad r484 r726 r968 ... Good First Bad Commit Bad r512 r513 r514

git bisect + unit test
= lightning fast problem pinpoint

22. The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Unawareness Overestimation What you What
there What you think you What you is to think could know know you know know ‘I know everything’ “Seniors”

Awareness Modesty What What What
you you What there think you think you is to could you know know know know ‘I know what I don’t know’ Actual Seniors

23. Use The Force

24. Be Healthy

25. Passion

26. Get Out Of Your
Comfort Zone

27. Have A Role Model,
Be A Role Model

Thank you! Lorna Mitchell Ivo
Jansch http://www.lornajane.net http://www.egeniq.com @lornajane @ijansch Please rate this talk at http://joind.in/2411 Come see us at ______ The full credits for the pictures in this presentation can be found in the slide deck online.

Resources The following URLS point
to relevant information. If you liked the presentation, you are going to want to have a look at the following sites: • Sleep Well - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/coders_insomnia_mental_hygiene/ On the Be Healthy slide, we talked about how good health improves your development skills. This is an interesting article about recommended sleep hygiene for programmers. • Getting Things Done - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done On the ‘Be Organized’ slide, we discussed how you can structure the way you work. This wikipedia article is a great starting point. • How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html This article by Eric Raymond goes with the item about asking questions. • The Passionate Programmer - http://pragprog.com/titles/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer In the ‘Passion’ item, we mentioned a book by the pragmatic programmers. This is the URL for it.

Credits The following pictures were
used in this presentation. All images are licensed with a creative common license. • ‘#27’ by Dwayne Madden - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dj-dwayne/4553167357/ • ‘This Way’ by Steve Snodgrass - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevensnodgrass/4906011803/ • ‘I don’t want to be your ...’ by Josh Pesavento - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pezz/3785769013/ • ‘Matt Dillon kicks off ...’ by Yodel Anecdotal - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/499434961/ • ‘Still Human’ by Quinn Dombrowski - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/3821448668/ • ‘Good Friends’ by Juliana Coutinho - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngmmemuda/4166182931/ • ‘TAM London Audience’ by Matt Brown - http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/3977320759/ • ‘Crowd in DPC’ by Juozas Kaziukenas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/juokaz/4702578495/ • ‘The Bridge’ by Ian Carroll - http://www.flickr.com/photos/iancarroll/3050791327/ • ‘Bingo Night’ by Robert Banh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertbanh/3319821124/ • Untitled by Kristina Sohappy - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristina-sohappy/4242102266/ • ‘ZendCon Tutorial Day’ by Andries Seutens - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andriesss/4027902414/ • ‘Google Logo in Building43’ by Robert Scoble - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4249731778/ • ‘Tiffus teaching Hoonan how to fish by Brett Kelly - http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkedmn/758241963/ • ‘Programming related books at home, RHS’ by Michael Fogus - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fogus/2629211069/ • ‘Darts of Pleasure’ by Melissa Gray - http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissagray/4002863212/ • ‘One step at a time’ by Fernando de Sousa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando/150271931/ • ‘War and Peace Show’ by Growl Roar - http://www.flickr.com/photos/growlroar/4821487849/ • ‘Less is more? More than what?’ by Theilr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/theilr/2200873034/ • ‘Spaghetti’ by Cyclonebill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclonebill/2223412838/

Credits The following pictures were
used in this presentation. All images are licensed with a creative common license. • Untitled by Eduard Orbitron - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardorbitron/5187761681/ • ‘Riverside and I-35’ by Dustin Coates - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dustinc/577521134/ • ‘Drawer Organizers’ by Rubbermaid Products - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubbermaid/4545308035/ • ‘Complicated Sign’ by Redvers - http://www.flickr.com/photos/redvers/1249510693/ • ‘Library Refresh’ by Mike McCune - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccun934/5000045252/ • ‘The requisite startup foosball table’ by Quami77 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakshaving/3795071232/ • ‘Haystack’ by Fod Tzellos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fod/237453417/ • ‘Red Lion Denver Southeast Fitness Center’ by Red Lion - http://www.flickr.com/photos/43536733@N03/4009413538/ • ‘Fire’ by Matthew Venn - http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewvenn/366986755/ • ‘Main conference room’ by Felix de Vliegher - http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixdv/2579551939/ • ‘Matthew Weier-O’Phinney’ by Juozas Kaziukenas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/juokaz/4702577233/ We have used other materials, such as the Dilbert and XKCD comics and the Yoda picture from Star Wars, under the assumptions that embedding them is fair use; they are copyrighted by their respective owners. Sources: • http://www.dilbert.com • http://www.xkcd.org • http://www.starwars.com