Written by Anna Filina
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on Apr. 13, 2017
ConFoo is happy to open the call for papers for the Vancouver 2017 edition! Proposals can be submitted until May 8th. Advisors will review all the proposals and publish the list of talks on June 5th. Talks are 35 minutes for the topic and 10 minutes for Q&A, for a total of 45 minutes. Check out…
Written by Anna Filina
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on Feb. 26, 2017
I saw this video the other day. I strongly disagree with that sentiment. If I could live forever, I would have done all the things. Right now, I have to constantly pick one thing over another. I have to prioritize. I abandon too many projects before even starting them, because I know that I simply…
Written by Anna Filina
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on Jan. 26, 2017
I saw a tweet earlier today “there seems to be this obsession with turning everything into an object”. Here’s a detailed response as to why using objects instead of arrays is a good idea, in my opinion. The Problem I once took over a project written in ActionScript 3. It was a fairly simple project…
Written by Anna Filina
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on Jan. 17, 2017
You can save on ConFoo Montreal tickets until January 20, 2017. This huge conference will be held on March 8-10, 2017 and will feature over 150 presentations. There is a great range of topics, including PHP, many other programming languages, databases, security, performance, machine learning and pr…
Written by Anna Filina
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on Dec. 12, 2016
Do you want to increase the efficiency of your remote communications by a factor of ten? Keep reading then. Respond immediately. If you have all the necessary information to respond to an e-mail, do it now. You already spent time reading the e-mail. By not responding immediately, you are wasting ti…
Written by Anna Filina
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on Nov. 22, 2016
At ConFoo, we use a speaker agreement to ensure that accepted speakers take their commitment seriously and understand the impact of a cancellation. We used to lose thousands of dollars due to speakers cancelling after we already purchased their flight (as a non-profit, that hurts). It’s also an opp…