TEK·X
18 - 21 May 2010 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O'Hare Hotel, Rosemont, IL

Another excellent, informative talk by Elizabeth. Lots of information about potential gotchas about how PHP works on different operating systems.

Opinionated, and very useful.

Great ideas for networking. Thanks!

Thanks! (even though this is new ground for me)

Informative and great overview of the data visualization tools available. Very knowledgeable and a good speaker. Thanks for the talk.

Great presentation

very inspirational, practical and perfectly delivered.

Nicely done presentation that showed how engaging in the PHP community has helped her career and how that is relevant to everyone else.

Lorna showed her speaking flexibility by presenting with no slides and just some notes in her hand and not missing a beat.

Wow! Lorna's presentation on how open source has shaped her career is amazing. So many talks a recitation of slides with dozens of bullet points. After the title slide and some contact info, Lorna switched to a solid black slide and spent the next 45 minutes talking about her experience and how that's relevant to you.

The take away: get involved. Working on open source projects–whether submitting bugs, fixing bugs, writing documentation, or hanging out in an IRC channel for 15 minutes a day to answer questions–will help make you a more valuable person to your potential employers.

Being able to see this talk in one of smaller rooms at Tek X was like seeing a band play your favorite bar a few months before they get discovered. You should be seeing this talk as the keynote talk at conferences around the community.

Great great great talk. Very applicable to my own career and a good format as well.