Cal Evans
Twitter: @calevans
Bio: Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We’re using the term “computer” loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC’s.For the past 15 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux, OSX, and Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from sim
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The Recommendation Engine: A case study on an application of a recommender system
at SunshinePHP 2019 on 9 Feb 2019
Performance Tuning Your Progressive Web App (PWA)
at SunshinePHP 2019 on 9 Feb 2019
Think Like a Trainer: Strategies for Improving Your Communication Skills
at SunshinePHP 2019 on 9 Feb 2019
Welcome to the PHP community
at SunshinePHP 2019 on 9 Feb 2019
Confessions Of a Not-So-Accidental Leader
at SunshinePHP 2019 on 9 Feb 2019
Accidental Professional
at SunshinePHP 2017 on 5 Feb 2017
Using Open Source for Fun and Profit
at SunshinePHP 2017 on 5 Feb 2017
A World Without PHP
at SunshinePHP 2017 on 5 Feb 2017
The New Revolution
at SunshinePHP 2017 on 3 Feb 2017
Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals
at Bulgaria PHP Conference on 9 Oct 2016
How I learned to stop worrying and love Regular Expressions
at Bulgaria PHP Conference on 9 Oct 2016
Monkeys in the Machine
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 5 Aug 2016
The New Revolution
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
I'm Just Here for the ElePHPants
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
Templates with Twig - Easier than you Think
at ZendCon 2015 on 22 Oct 2015
No More Overtime; or, How To Train Your Manager
at ZendCon 2015 on 21 Oct 2015
From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with Laravel
at ZendCon 2015 on 21 Oct 2015
News From the Front Lines - an update on Front-End Tech
at Bulgaria PHP Conference on 27 Sep 2015
Drinking from the Firehose: Real-time Analytics
at Bulgaria PHP Conference on 27 Sep 2015
The Accidental Professional
at Bulgaria PHP Conference on 27 Sep 2015
Teaming up Backbone.js and the new WordPress API
at PHP South Coast Conference 2015 on 18 Jul 2015
Turning Your Code Into a Company: The Parts They Don't Tell You
at Lone Star PHP 2015 on 20 Apr 2015
Trust, Community, and Automatic Updates
at php[world] on 13 Nov 2014
Intermediate OOP in PHP
at php[world] on 13 Nov 2014
From zero to Silex
at php[world] on 12 Nov 2014
Turning Your Code Into a Company: The Parts They Don't Tell You.
at php[world] on 12 Nov 2014
Laravel Forge: Hello World to Hello Production
at php[world] on 12 Nov 2014
Modernize Your Drupal Development
at php[world] on 11 Nov 2014
PHP at Density and Scale
at Lone Star PHP 2014 on 28 Apr 2014
Eating ElePHPants
at Lone Star PHP 2014 on 28 Apr 2014
<script>alert('Keynote!!!!!!!!11!!!1!');</script>
at Lone Star PHP 2014 on 25 Apr 2014
You're the Tech Lead! Now what?
at MidwestPHP 2014 on 23 Mar 2014
Mocking Dependencies with PHPUnit
at MidwestPHP 2014 on 15 Mar 2014
The Hidden Challenges of Developing E-Commerce
at True North PHP 2012 on 2 Nov 2012
Introduction to Continuous Integration with Jenkins
at True North PHP 2012 on 2 Nov 2012
Why PHP could be the most important programming language in the world
at True North PHP 2012 on 2 Nov 2012
After-Party
at Lone Star PHP Conference on 2 Jul 2012
Hypermedia APIs and Self-Building Applications
at Lone Star PHP Conference on 30 Jun 2012
After-Party
at Lone Star PHP Conference on 30 Jun 2012
It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase
at Lone Star PHP Conference on 30 Jun 2012
Building Testable PHP Applications
at Lone Star PHP Conference on 29 Jun 2012
Your code sucks! Let's fix it.
at Dutch PHP Conference 2012 on 8 Jun 2012
Implementing OAuth
at Dutch PHP Conference 2011 on 21 May 2011
DPC Conference Social
at Dutch PHP Conference 2011 on 21 May 2011
XHProf and WonderProxy
at PHP Community Conference on 2 May 2011
Technical Writing 101
at Dutch PHP Conference 2010 on 14 Jun 2010
Stress-free deployment
at Dutch PHP Conference 2010 on 14 Jun 2010
Technical Debt
at Dutch PHP Conference 2010 on 11 Jun 2010
Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World
at PHPBenelux Conference 2010 on 30 Jan 2010
The PHP Universe
at PHPBenelux Conference 2010 on 30 Jan 2010
Reg-Ex Fu
at PHPBenelux Conference 2010 on 30 Jan 2010
The State of SOAP in PHP
at PHPBenelux Conference 2010 on 30 Jan 2010
Getting Git
at ZendCon 2009 on 22 Oct 2009
Getting a website out of the door
at ZendCon 2009 on 21 Oct 2009
Continuous Integration without Atlassian
at ZendCon 2009 Uncon on 20 Oct 2009
Role of a PHP user group
at ZendCon 2009 Uncon on 9 Oct 2009
The Lost Art of Simplicity
at ZendCon 2009 Uncon on 7 Oct 2009
What do Playboy, the Beatles and Winchester all have in common?
at ZendCon 2009 Uncon on 7 Oct 2009
Using Git to take SVN Offline
at php|tek 2009 Unconference on 15 May 2009
An introduction to continuous integration
at php|tek 2009 Unconference on 15 May 2009
Architecting Web Services
at php|tek 2009 Unconference on 15 May 2009
Simple Scaling Every Developer Should Know
at php|works + PyWorks on 13 Nov 2008
Security-Centered Design: Don't Just Plan for Security; Design For It
at php|works + PyWorks on 13 Nov 2008
Caching for Cash (PM)
at php|works + PyWorks on 13 Nov 2008
SQLite3
at php|works + PyWorks on 13 Nov 2008
Indexing All the Worlds Products
at PHP Appalachia 2008 on 5 Nov 2008