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Adam Culp, organizer of the SunshinePHP Developer Conference and South Florida PHP Users Group (SoFloPHP) where he speaks regularly, is a Zend Certified PHP 5.3 Engineer. Adam is passionate about developing with PHP and enjoys helping others write good code, implement standards, refactor efficiently, and incorporate unit and functional tests into their projects. When he is not coding or contributing to various developer communities, and he can be found hiking around the United States National Parks, teaching judo, or participating in long distance running.
No matter what level of development we are at in our careers we all face a daily battle to write good code for ourselves and others, deliver finished applications fast to satisfy business, and ensure everything is properly tested to prevent end-user fails. In this session we will discuss what clean application development is, and how it can help us win those battles. The talk will provide practical and usable examples to take with you, integrate into your workflow, and continue to grow into good habits. (Topics: Version control, refactoring, coding standards, frameworks, architecture, automation, time management, and more.)
Adam Culp will talk about refactoring code. (The practice of altering code to make it cleaner, simpler, and sometimes faster, while not sacrificing functionality.) We all hate to do it, but it is a necessary evil. So lets talk about how to do it better. Adam will discuss: When to refactor. How to refactor. Why refactor. How a refactor can help us write better code in the future. A common methodology and steps to follow while refactoring, and resources to help us all on our refactor journey.
Adam is a full-stack developer at Vehikl in Waterloo, ON and has worked with PHP for over 12 years. He's passionate about software design, test-driven development and building great products. He is an active open-source contributor and co-organizes the Laravel KW user group. When he's not writing code, he's winning gold medals at Canadian powerlifting competitions.
Test-driven development can be hard, and a lot of the "rules" can often become a distraction from the real reasons you're writing tests in the first place. In this talk, you'll find out what the real benefits of TDD are, what really makes code "good", and why testability shouldn't be your only yardstick for measuring code quality. I'll also show you some of the pitfalls of a "purist" testing approach, and give you strategies you can use to test-first without sacrificing simplicity or expressiveness in your code.
If you've ever given up on testing because it seemed so hard to do everything "by the book", this talk will feel like a breath of fresh air and give you the tools you need to start writing tests that really matter.
It's really fun to build a package that adds some awesome functionality to your favourite framework. If you're not careful however, you can end up releasing something that nobody could use outside of Framework-X no matter how hard they try.
In this talk, I'll walkthrough building a framework agnostic package. You'll learn about important OO design principles like dependency injection, interfaces, and encapsulation, and see how we can integrate our package with a modern framework like Laravel, or the messiest legacy codebase you've ever seen.
Ben Ramsey is a web craftsman, author, and speaker. He builds a platform for professional photographers at ShootProof, organizes user groups, and lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, son, and dog named Echo. Ben blogs at benramsey.com and is @ramsey on Twitter.
A few years ago, I had a simple idea to add a new function to the PHP core: array_column(). Starting out on this journey to contribute to the core can be daunting to user-land developers unfamiliar with the landscape of the PHP internals. It can be tough to navigate these seemingly uncharted waters, but the recent move of the PHP source to Git has removed many of the old barriers. Nevertheless, there is a protocol involved, and I'd like to demystify the process in this talk, explaining how to go about setting up your environment, creating an RFC, communicating on the proper mailing lists, and sending your pull request. I hope this talk will encourage you to scratch your own itch and contribute to the PHP core. I tend to think of this talk as being aimed at mid-level developers, encouraging them to dive into a more advanced topic: contributing to the core of PHP.
I've been developing PHP and JS at ExperiencePoint for over two years. We've gone through hefty migrations and team changes in this time period where just before I started it was a "two-developer-shop" to now a full development team with dedicated QA and sysops roles. We've moved products from Ruby, Cold Fusion, and Symfony1.0, and even some Zend to a Symfony2.5 Service oriented architecture. We've gone from terrible prototype.js hodge-podge scripts into using full blown client-side apps in Angular using Websockets and node.
You're a PHP dev, you're a rock-star with the PHP ecosystem. However, JavaScript can make you cry when you want to do things you already know about in PHP. I will show you how my team has tamed JavaScript and integrated our applications to connect to our PHP backends through RESTful API service with clean and abstracted code. I'll even show you how we swapped out the REST API to talk to a Node.js server that gets events from our PHP site, and how we connect our mobile app written in AngularJS with a Flash application running in IE8.
Chris Hartjes has been building web applications of all shapes and sizes since 1998, ranging from catalogs for CD compilations for professional DJ's to large-scale dating web sites.
A huge consumer of open-source software, Chris tries to give back to the community via his blog, by speaking at conferences, and by co-organizing TrueNorthPHP. He is also a big believer in the power of testing and automation as secret weapons for organizations to deliver high quality applications quickly.
He lives in Milton, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife, two daughters, a furry pig masquerading as a cat, and the reincarnation of the Roman god of the underworld in feline form.
Daniel is a Senior Engineer for Croscon living in New York City. In his laughably short free time, he co-organizes the QueensJS user group, continues to assist co-orgaizing the Lone Star PHP conference, speaks at conferences, eats way too much souvlaki at the cart down the street. He is Yolo Certified, a cat lover, and despite his last name not Canadian.
Often times we hit a wall and get stuck on a problem, only to realize much later and after lengthy and unnecessary pain the solution was simple if we just reframed the problem as something else. Thinking like a Computer Scientist involves being able to take a step back, abstracting what we know about a problem space, and realizing relations to other, solved, problems that were not immediately apparent. Together we'll tackle a problem, learn how to think, and come away with that "aha!" moment that we all know and love as developers. Originally a 10 minute lightning talk (with no code) that used up every second of that 10 minutes.
David works at Heroku, a cloud platform as a service headquartered in San Francisco. He was already building applications for the Web when the dot-com bubble burst, and went on to co-own a software consultancy before exploring the e-commerce and Berlin startup scene. Based in Munich, Germany, he is a regular speaker at technology conferences around the world and an avid fan of all things fast or exciting.
One of the first cloud platforms around, Heroku helped shaped the form of modern PaaS. Long beyond its Ruby roots, it now supports a multitude of languages, including, most recently PHP.
This workshop explores the benefits, characteristics, pitfalls and approaches of the platform, and walks the audience through the preparation and creation of applications, their configuration, and all the best practices and methodologies that will allow them to get the most out of Heroku upon their first deploy, from dependency management over development/production parity to scaling up (and down again).
For the brave ones, we'll sprinkle in some advanced Web server configuration, performance tuning and even a round of HHVM and Hack.
Horizontal scalability has always been at the core of PHP application design. But to fully leverage the power and convenience of PaaS offerings such as Heroku, it's worth following certain best practices and methodologies when developing applications. This presentation covers all the steps from code and dependency management over configuration to maintaining dev/prod environment parity, and will demonstrate, live on stage, just how easy it can be to deploy and scale a PHP application to the cloud.
With over 15 years of passionate web development experience and open source advocacy, Ed Finkler loves empowering people through technology. He's excited about creating things and sharing them with the world.
He served as web lead and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University for 9 years. More recently, he has been helping startup teams build exciting e-commerce, social sharing, and mapping systems. He's a proud member of the Fictive Kin team, working on Done Not Done, Gimme Bar, and lots of other cool stuff. Along with Chris Hartjes, Ed is co-host of the Development Hell podcast.
Ed spends much of his free time creating and working on open source projects such as Spaz, a long-running, award winning microblogging client. Ed also created the PHP libraries like FUnit, Resty.php, PHPSecInfo, and Inspekt.
In the spirit of open source, I'd like to shine a spotlight on mental illness. Not because it's easy, but because it's important. One in five of us will experience a diagnosable mental illness in the next year, but the stigma attached to it dissuades many from seeking help. These conditions will continue to take our siblings, parents, children, friends, and colleagues until we learn to talk about it without shame.
I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was thirteen, and I've been struggling with it my whole life. In this talk, I'll discuss how it has impacted my work as a developer, husband, and father. We'll discuss how to help those who cope with mental illness as empathetic, supportive colleagues. Together, we'll change lives for the better. I gave this last year, but this has new content: more statistics, more impact on the workplace, and more "what can I do" info.
As developers, we usually focus on technical know-how as the measure of our ability. The best of us come up with solutions more quickly; solve harder and more complex problems; knows their language and platform intimately. That stuff is all useful, but I think we're measuring the wrong criteria. Technical competence is important, but at least as important is our ability to empathize, communicate, and reason beyond popular opinion. If we want to be great developers, we must value those skills just as highly as coding chops, because we need them to anticipate and solve our user's problems. In this talk, we'll examine why these non-technical skills have such an impact on us as developers, and how to apply them to our work.
Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial (PHP 4 beta), but has used PHP 5.4 for so long now that she's forgotten how she ever got by without traits and namespaces. She also plays far too much with C based languages and has the superpower of breaking things, like valgrind and gdb, on the same day. She went to college for dance which quickly became an English major after the first baby. If you see her in person, ask how she wound up with a career in computers.
Adobe, Target, New York Times - what do they have in common? Massive security breaches. In the age of fast and cheap choices when programming how do you avoid becoming one of the hacked? Security isn't a checkbox on a list, it's a way of programming that makes you do things the right way, the first time. And every project will have it's own needs for paranoia. Integrating a mental checklist and instilling some healthy "users are evil" paranoia can go a long way to keeping your site from becoming a victim. Learn about how to make the right decisions for the project that will keep your data safe without breaking the bank or the calendar, and how to add habits to your brain that will security consciousness part of your everyday programming habits.
Even with the language settling into its old age, gaining a language spec, and multiple implementations PHP popping up, most people still run the good old C based PHP. And you should know the basics of how PHP works. But why should it matter what is under the covers? As with any implementation of a language, knowing some of the basics of the underlying code will allow you to deal with quirks, weirdnesses, and generally help you understand how you are communicating with the machine. Learn about "Why are php's strings really byte arrays", "What are opcodes and caching", and Why what sapi am I using is very important", along with lots of other interesting things that impact you as a programmer (without having to actually having to dig into PHP's C code)
You've dabbled a little in version control using Git. You know about commits and pulls and branches. You may have even tried Git to rebase something once (and remember getting kinda freaked out by the headless thing). You can follow along with the various tutorials you've found online. But now you've been asked to implement a work flow strategy for your company's next project and you're not really sure how (or where) to start.
In this session you will work closely with long-time version control lover Emma Jane Westby to create the perfect work flow strategy for each of your projects. This is a process workshop designed to help you sort through the pros and cons of different types of work flows. It is not a tutorial on how to run Git from the command line, it's a 10,000ft view of how your team works.
In this half-day workshop you will complete activities to help you determine the best permission and branching strategies for your team. We will also discuss how you can enforce your new workflow once you return back to your project. This workshop is appropriate for managers, and technical leads. This workshop was well received at OSCON in 2014, and php[tek] in 2013.
Eric started developing professionally 10 years ago. He learned PHP in 2005 and have been using it as his main language since then.
He has a passion for best practices, especially for testing. And he sometimes writes about those things on on his blog http://erichogue.ca/
TDD (Test Driven Development) is getting more and more popular. But what can you do to take it to the next level?
What if you could know if your tests are passing every time you save a file without taking your hands off the keyboard. This is what continuous testing gives you.
In this session, we will cover how you can continuously test your PHP application. We will cover
The nightmare is at your doorstep! You've been tasked with extending a legacy PHP web application, a mash of raw SQL and HTML and PHP all inside out and backwards and spread over a several dozen (or hundred!) files. You know getting the system under test will push the project forward, but where do you start?
Come learn a slow, careful approach to incorporating automated unit tests into untestable code. See how your tests can slip in unobtrusively to take over your codebase from the inside, eating away at the spaghetti and creating a solid platform for future development.
Get to the know the ins and outs of virtPHP. virtPHP is a shell tool that allows you to create multiple virtual environments for PHP applications on one system, each with unique PHP configurations, global Composer packages, PEAR packages, and PECL extensions, along with the ability to connect environments to other PHP builds located on your system. Think Python's virtualenv for PHP.
In this talk, co-creator Jacques Woodcock will introduce virtPHP and explain how it can benefit any PHP developer's workflow. We'll also dive into the internals of virtPHP to see how it creates self-contained virtual environments. Finally, we'll discuss the project roadmap and how you can help. Talk can be reworked to be a tutorial as well.
Jeff Carouth is a web application developer honing his programming and skiing skills at Liftopia. He is an active member of the PHP community, speaker, co-organizer of BCSPHP, and co-host of the Loosely Coupled podcast. He believes quality code, testing, and automation are necessary ingredients in a recipe for a successful software project. When not hacking away at code he is a father and husband, beer and Scotch enthusiast, and an amateur photographer. Follow Jeff on Twitter as jcarouth or read his blog at http://carouth.com
Poor application design can be an incredibly frustrating experience. Often we can attribute frustration in software projects to tight coupling and high interdependence between modules within the design. As developers, the Dependency Inversion Principle helps us design maintainable software by showing us the direction dependencies should flow. In this session we will look at the ideas of dependency injection and dependency inversion and how they can make your applications easier to work with for yourself and your colleagues. At the end of this session you will have a grasp on DI and even a taste of using modern PHP dependency injection containers correctly in your applications.
Jeremy is an ex-pat Englishman and former professional musician, now living in Guelph, Ontario. He's been a web developer for the last 5 years, spending most of that time working with PHP and related open source technologies. Jeremy is a senior software engineer for NetSuite and is also the organiser of the Guelph PHP User Group. He spends his free time with his family as well as trying to come to terms with his recent status as a dog owner.
MVC presents a great way to divide responsibilities in your application but it offers no help in building the most critical part: the model or domain. This talk will introduce ways that can help you to encapsulate the richness of your domain. We'll look at Action Domain Response as a new way of thinking about the concepts presented in MVC before examining Hexagonal Architecture, allowing you to easily reuse your domain across multiple delivery mechanisms. We'll then finish with an introduction to Domain Driven Design, a technique that allows you to closely align your domain with the business problems it is solving while helping keep things well designed and easily maintainable. By the end of this talk you should have the knowledge needed to begin modelling your domains more powerfully while keeping them aligned to the real world problems they solve.
PHP and C# developer living in the Milwaukee area. Organizer of Milwaukee PHP and Milwaukee Functional Programming user groups. Addicted to learning, teaching and growing the developer community. Currently obsessed with functional programming.
In March, Facebook released a new language called Hack. It adds static typing, generics and lambda expressions on top of the rest of the familiar PHP syntax. In addition, it allows for gradual adoption of these features and continued interoperability with existing PHP code. But why should you care? Do you need to work in a massive environment like Facebook to reap the rewards of learning a new language? I'll make a strong case that Hack (and HHVM) are worth your time, give you a good demo of the language and show you how to get started. I don't work for Facebook, but I dove into Hack the day it was announced and I've continued to follow its development with great interest. I have applications in production running on Hack and I'm eager to show PHP developers of all skill levels why it's worth their time to give Hack a look.
Jonathan Reinink is a long time (late 90's) front and back-end web developer with a keen interest in PHP. Jonathan currently serves as the Director of Web Development at Compass Creative, a Canadian based marketing company that provides branding and websites to trades businesses. Jonathan spearheads their SaaS product, Worksites.net, a do-it-yourself website builder for contractors. After hours, Jonathan runs a second SaaS product, Church Social, a niche web-based management product for churches. In recent years Jonathan has transition from being a "lone wolf" developer to being much more active in the PHP community. Most notably, Jonathan has contributed Plates, a native PHP template system that's part of The PHP League. Jonathan has a strong design sense and is an advocate of using good design to help promote technical projects.
It's one thing to write a quick library that you and maybe a few coworkers will only ever use. It's an entirely different thing to put your work out there for the entire PHP community to analyze, test, poke, benchmark and critique. While there is potential for this process to be incredibly rewarding it can also be quite intimidating. Wouldn't it be nice to see what this looks like before you jump in? Come see how Plates (platesphp.com) became a thing last year while at the same time learning how to make your first open-source PHP package a success.
This talk comes from the perspective of a developer who has just gone through the process of releasing an open-source PHP project. As I share my personal story I plan to teach other developers what I learned along the way, and give practical advise on how they can successfully open-source their own PHP package. This talk includes a nice mix of soft skills and technical information, touching on many key areas of modern PHP development.
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Shortly after it arrived at his home in 1993, Jordan began disassembling his first computer - his mother was not happy. She breathed more easily when he moved from hardware into programming, starting with BASIC. Jordan's experience includes multiple startups, companies large and small, and one large university. He contributes to a few open source projects and participates in local user groups, barcamps, and hackathons. Jordan's primary mission for over 10 years has been to use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to elevate web applications above their desktop rivals. He currently works as a Sr. JavaScript Engineer and Team lead for appendTo, a leader in front-end software solutions, specializing in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and mobile development. In his down time he enjoys puzzles of all sorts and board games.
What's that you say? You don't like working in JavaScript because you can't code like you want to with capital "O" Objects all over the place? Sure you can. More and more people are starting to realize how powerful this little language can be - start your re-education with this session and learn all about OOP in JS. First, we have to accept that while JavaScript may exhibit some characteristics of a functional language, it is really a multi-paradigm language with strong support for Object-Oriented Programming concepts.
This talk will give attendees a crash course in Object-Oriented JavaScript covering:
Developers will come out of this session ready to implement core OOP concepts in JavaScript, with knowledge of how inheritance in JavaScript differs from many of the other languages they know.
Composer has grown into the de-facto standard PHP dependency manager. While we struggle to make it easy to use, mastering dependency management and packaging in general remains tricky.
In this session you will learn how to leverage Composer version constraints, grasp stabilities and semantic versioning along with a few more tips on being a good OSS citizen. You should already be comfortable with Composer basics and eager to learn about it some more.
Joseph Glover has spent the last three years working with the Halton Regional Police Service building their Police Analytics unit. Prior to that he worked as a climate physicist, engineer and intelligence analyst. The common factor in his career has been PHP as Joseph has used the language as his secret weapon in work environments unaccustomed to the utility of web development. He has over a decade of PHP development experience.
The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) has created a new unit known as the Police Analytics Unit that is responsible for leveraging HRPS data sources in order to make the organization more effective and efficient. The unit embodies a start-up culture within the Service and applies modern development practices to rapidly prototype and push out solutions to users. Joseph Glover, the supervisor of the Police Analytics unit, has been a PHP developer for over a decade and he will share how his unit uses PHP to interface with enterprise police software, to repackage police data into modern web and mobile formats and deliver on-demand analytics to all members of the police service. Joseph will also discuss the challenges of utilizing modern web technologies in non-traditional work environments and the opportunities that these markets represent.
How does Facebook or tumblr survive using PHP? Huge amount of new startups and projects start of by writing everything in PHP. But sooner or later there comes a time to do some background processing or the amount of users just kill the app.
There are many ways to solve these problems. I want talk about when, how and most importantly why PHP sometimes is not the best tool for the job. And how to deal with problems when that tool starts to struggle.
There is always new frameworks, toolkits and libraries available. But what do you choose and how do you go about taking an idea and having a working implementation or just a prototype in a matter of hours? With the world moving at a faster and faster pace the need to react to changing conditions faster keeps increasing. So let's look at ways to build software in rapid iterations and change how you think about the role of software. "Let's build this tool for our staff to be able to manage internal ads campaign". Month later the tool gets build... Too late, the spark for the idea is gone.
Happens all the time and causes developers to be called as "slow". In reality, most projects tend to do take way too much time. Especially if you have a perfectionist in your team.
I want to talk about MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) and how to achieve that.
The Code Manifesto is a set of values, created in hopes of guiding our community towards a place that is welcoming, safe, and empowering to all.
Currently, our communities are greatly lacking in diversity, and sometimes outright hostile towards the minority members that we do have. In this talk I try to illustrate that problem, and also cover WHY it matters, and finally what we can do to help fix it.
I talk about what the Code Manifesto is, why it came to be, and why each of the values were selected.
The Code Manifesto itself is here:
The first job I picked for myself as a very little kid was multi-generational space ship design for colonizing distant worlds. I am still happy to pursue this line of work should anyone have any job openings for it. Growing up and realizing this was a bit out of my reach due to my location in space-time, I started obsessing on what role I could fill in the getting-humanity-into-space mission. The angle on the problem which called to me most was child rearing and education. On examination it has always seemed to me that we would all have a whole lot more time, energy, and creativity with which to advance the species if we didn't spend so much time overcoming our rather slap dash upbringings and educations - so my goal in life became raising and educating children at a massive scale. Then my spine was crushed and my ability to effect the universe became limited to what I can do through a laptop. My interest in technology went from "everyone should learn technology so we can all go into space" to "the only effect I can have on the universe is through technology" and so for the last few years I've been learning a lot about programming and making games that expand the mind as well as amusing the spirit.
Using a framework can be a great way to keep from having to recreate the same components for every project, for facilitating the use of existing code created by others and designed to slot in to your shared framework, and for keeping your code reasonably structured as your project expands. That said, if you're unfamiliar with a framework it can seem like all those benefits are on the other side of an obstacle course of unknown breadth and difficulty. How long will it take you to get up to speed if you try to pick up a new Framework? As long as that answer is an unknown quantity possibly equaling infinite, you're unlikely to take that leap.
This talk will include the basics of setting up a new project, understanding the file structure, getting a handle on the Routing->Controller->Template relationship, adding existing bundles to a project, and the basics of implementing Commands and Services. Aimed at beginners who may have never used a framework before, this talk's goal is to equip you with all the information and understanding you need to skip the confusion and jump into developing with the Symfony2 framework.
Developer at FreshBooks and contributor to a number of open source projects including CakePHP, Twig, Xhgui2 and more.
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Web: http://mark-story.com
CakePHP is part of the old guard in the framework space. Throughout its life many things have been added/removed and changed. I'll be taking a look at some of the mistakes we made, how things went wrong, and how we've tried to resolve those problems.
In addition to the framework code itself, I'll be discussing some of the tooling around the project that people may not have considered, but are vitally important for a successful project like CakePHP.
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There are so many opportunities to connect and integrate popular services to our projects, but with all of the security concerns, can we really trust that our credentials are being handled with care? Do we really want the burden of maintaining credentials for other services for our users? Of course we don't! When a service provides an API for us to create and consume content, we want to trust that we can identify ourselves in the least intrusive way possible. OAuth allows us to make such requests securely, but it has a bad reputation for being difficult to implement and use. Never fear, this talk will break the protocol down into easy-to-understand steps, empowering you to provide your service, and use other services, with ease.
Michelangelo van Dam is a professional PHP consultant and Zend Framework expert working mainly for governments and larger enterprises. Michelangelo is also president of PHPBenelux, a PHP user group operating in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, and speaks at several PHP conferences around the world.
So you have spent the last few years building ZF1 applications but now the business requirements have changed and you need to provide a full featured REST API. You could invest time, money and energy building it yourself, but have a look at Apigility. This is a full REST management application build on ZF2 allows you to tap into your existing ZF1 application and provide 100% REST endpoints to the outside world.
In this talk I go over the challenges we had to deal with creating our own REST implementation, throwing it all away because we only had 20% of the features of Apigility and setting up and managing Apigiltiy using our existing ZF1 application.
After this talk you will get a good understanding how to use Apigility to manage your REST API's, while using your non-ZF2 application (Zend Framework, Symfony, Aura, …). So you can invest time in building more features instead of trying to make your application REST compliant. I needed to architect API's for customers who already had ZF1 applications and had already invested 4 months in developing a REST API, when Apigility was announced. We dropped all development and started investigating how we could integrate Apigility into our ZF1 applications. These findings are covered in this talk, I even blogged about it at dragonbe.com (http://www.dragonbe.com/2014/03/bootstrapping-zf1-application-in.html).
For MySQL 5.7, one of the engineering goals is to continue to clean up and simplify code, and improve the architecture of the MySQL Server.
As part of this spring cleaning process, some features in MySQL 5.7 have a change in behaviour; for example the EXPLAIN PARTITIONS and EXPLAIN EXTENDED syntax will be enabled by default. Other features will be deprecated and may be removed; for example the InnoDB Monitor tables.
This session aims to describe the motivations behind each of these changes and how they will affect you.
Yesterday WonderProxy routed 6.5TB of traffic for it's customers. The proxies run squid, but: sign up, sever selection, authentication management, administration, and cancellation are all managed in PHP or bash scripts.
This talk will present how the technology has changed over time, what's worked, what's failed. Come to poke holes in our database design, and to hear about the times we updated the users table without a `where` clause.
Rafael Dohms is an experienced PHP Developer, Evangelist, Speaker, and Contributor. During his years of experience, he has become an active member of the community and founded three user groups. He moved to the Netherlands in search of new challenges and to share his passion for code quality and innovation. In his spare time, he also helps manage the AmsterdamPHP User Group, amongst other projects.
As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity.
Let's talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design. This talk aims to inspire people to write code that will go the distance.
Sean Coates is a partner at Fictive Kin where he says he does ops and development, but really spends most of his time unbreaking things that past-Sean broke. He's been doing this Web thing professionally since 1999, and has been contributing to PHP in some form or another since 2001.
So you've heard that all the cool kids are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their hosting, but you haven't really got the time to learn all about nodes and clouds and elastics? This introductory session will give you a baseline for getting started on AWS.
At Fictive Kin, we spend an embarrassingly large amount of money on AWS every month, and we use many of their services, so I've become pretty good at pretending I know what's going on over there.
In this talk, we'll cover file hosting (S3), server hosting (EC2, VPC), DNS hosting (Route53), database hosting (RDS), and some additional things like Cloudwatch, CloudFront, and ElasticCache, but we'll focus on the moving parts of EC2.
Tyler is a Senior Developer on the RedFlagDeals team, part of Yellow Pages Group. Tyler has been developing in LAMP environments for over 10 years. Currently he's attempting to break his long-held bad developer habits, applying SOLID and TDD principles in an uphill battle against his own code.
Walk through of moving from a legacy/custom framework to Symfony 2, based on RedFlagDeals' experience. There were no easy wins, no change without pain, and a lot of learning along the way. We will share what we used to have, where we are now, our plans for the future and show bits of code along the way. No specific Symfony knowledge is expected, however a general understanding of recent PHP frameworks would be helpful.


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Last week amidst Starbucks' Q3 earnings call and the unveiling of its semi-marked 15th Avenue Coffee shop concept, my phones were ringing off of their proverbial hooks with clients, institutional investors and reporters all trying to get some insight into what was happening with the business and its position relative to the specialty coffee industry.
Hawaii Standard Time is rarely the most convenient to conduct business on the U.S. Mainland and sometimes leads to interesting complications, like this one. It was about 9:00 AM HST last Monday or Tuesday and I had just gotten to the eye in the morning hurricane of urgent email and phone messages, so I decided that it was a good time to break and shower. Were it not for the client phone call I was expecting, I never would have taken my Blackberry along for the ride.
Not 10 seconds after dispensing the shampoo, the phone rang and I answered: "This is Will Sterrett at newsradio 740 in Houston," the deep voice boomed "can you come on the air for a few comments about Starbucks?"
Um, Houston, we have a problem.
My responses in the resulting interview were a little repetitive, but it's the best that I could come up with as the soap suds dripped down into my eyes:
…still, it gets the point across. I'm just happy that it wasn't a television interview; so are you.


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Thinking of doing a remix of an 808 State track, but dunno what. I did this version of Pacific and sent it in, but I dont know what happened to that-it was a bit crap anyway.
It sounds a bit pathetic, but I can only have a go at ones from 808:88:98, Ninety, Ex:El, The North At Its Heights (sound quality not that good-ripped off my vinyl copy), or the Mp3s on 808state.com (I don't have the other albums, I'm waiting for the re-releases so I don't double up)
I'm an 808 State newb-not that knowledgable about what people want me to have a go at. If Markus did get that version of Pacific (Pacific Steve) then any constructive criticism is appreciated.
I'm also working on Lift 808:06-doesn't sound encouraging I know, but as Graham said in an interview, the original one sounded like sixteen tracks nailed together, so I've cut it up a bit and tried to make it slightly more coherent (no offence to 808!!!)
hear my other stuff on www.freewebs.com/stopshoutingitsdoingmyheadin and go to track previews-tell me what you think.


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Sustainable energy for the 21st century: Can we ensure a bright future?
Fiona Harvey in conversation with Daniel Crean, Kirk Shanks, Colin Snape, and Phil Taylor: 23 October 2012
This panel discussion was chaired by Fiona Harvey (environment correspondent for The Guardian) with: Daniel Crean (PhD student at Nuclear FiRST Doctoral Training Centre, University of Sheffield), Dr. Kirk Shanks (Lecturer in energy demand, Loughborough University), Prof. Colin Snape (Director of the Energy Technologies Research Institute, University of Nottingham) and Prof. Phil Taylor (DONG Energy Chair in Renewable Energy, Durham University).
Discussion points for the evening included:
- What is the UK's current energy mix?
- Where does our energy come from, and how much do we import and export?
- Why is our current situation unsustainable?
- Is technology really enough to provide a sustainable energy future? What is the role of behavioural change and that of political institutions?
- Is it actually possible to meet the Government's energy targets without using fossil fuels or nuclear power?
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Reviews for Borderlands 2: Mechromancer Pack (MAC)
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Police use super powers of 'super recognizers' to fight crime
London • Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He's a "super recognizer," and that's giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Scotland Yard.
Several years ago, for example, London police were on the lookout for a burglar wanted for nine robberies. About a month after seeing the burglar's picture, Hyland and two colleagues were stuck in traffic.
"I looked up and noticed this guy coming out of a university and knew it was him," Hyland recalled, adding that neither of his colleagues recognized the burglar. Hyland arrested the suspect, who confessed after questioning.
"If I've met someone before and see them again, I'll usually know where I know them from, even if I can't remember their name," he said.
How does Hyland do it? Nobody knows. But since 2011, about 200 London police officers have been recruited to an elite squad of super recognizers. Officials say they have tripled the number of criminal suspects identified from surveillance photos or on the street each week, and even helped prevent some crimes like muggings, drug deals and assaults.
"When we have an image of an unidentified criminal, I know exactly who to ask instead of sending it out to everyone and getting a bunch of false leads," said Mick Neville, Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard. Neville started the super recognizer unit after realizing the police had no system for identifying criminals based on images, unlike those for DNA and fingerprints.
The unit proved especially valuable after riots hit London in the summer of 2011. After the violence, Scotland Yard combed through hundreds of hours of surveillance video. So far, there have been nearly 5,000 arrests; around 4,000 of those were based on police identifications of suspects from video images. The super recognizers were responsible for nearly 30 percent of the identifications, including one officer who identified almost 300 people. A facial recognition software program made only one successful identification, according to Neville.
Weeks before the Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest street festival in Europe, kicked off last month, the super recognizers were given images of known criminals and gang members. After the carnival began, 17 super recognizers holed up in a control room to study surveillance footage and spot the potential troublemakers.
Once targeted people were identified, police officers were sent to the scene as a pre-emptive strategy. Neville said that likely prevented some crimes like thefts and assaults.
Neville said one super recognizer saw what he thought was a drug deal, but wasn't sure. The next day, the super recognizer saw the same person and when police intervened, they found the suspect with crack cocaine.
He noted that the officers aren't infallible and that their identification is only the start of a case, after which police start looking for other evidence.
Legal authorities warned it could be problematic to use super recognizers as expert witnesses in court, such as in situations where they identify criminals based on an imperfect image.
"Unless we subject them to (rigorous testing), then we are just taking their word on trust and we have no reason to do this," said Mike Redmayne, a law professor at the London School of Economics. "Perhaps they can do what they say, but we don't have the evidence yet," he wrote in an email. "If it was up to me, I would not (allow) it in court."
In the U.S., experts thought it would be up to individual judges to decide whether super recognizers needed to be verified before allowing their testimony in court.
"It's not clear to me that the law will demand they be tested first," said David Kaye, a distinguished professor of law at Penn State. He said the identification skills of super recognizers might be analogous to those of sniffer dogs, whose ability to sniff out drugs are mostly accepted without confirmatory tests. Kaye also noted cases where expert witnesses didn't need to have their skills verified before testifying in court and thought that in most instances, the prosecution would have more evidence than simply the identification of an alleged criminal by a super recognizer.
He said the skills of super recognizers might be more plausibly used in obtaining search warrants.
"There aren't strict rules for getting a warrant," Kaye said. "The judge is supposed to exercise independent judgment but often anything goes," he said, explaining that a super recognizer's identification of a suspect based on a grainy image might be sufficient to issue a search warrant.
Charles Farrier, a spokesman for the U.K. privacy group, No CCTV, called the police's use of super recognizers "the latest gimmick" being used to promote the widespread use of surveillance cameras. According to the group, Britain has the most surveillance cameras per person in the world.


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lament for France's ketchup ban in schools
I am not campaigning for a new SE column entitled "NannyPlate Watch", but maybe we need one. And there's enough news out there to stuff a column every week! France has decided to allow the use of ketchup once a week, and ONLY for use on French fries, to help French kids learn to upgrade their palate. The quotes in the article above are among the most arrogant and ridiculous I've ever heard.
I'm all about inspiring kids to eat well, but not by government writ.
So here's my question: What do YOU put ketchup on besides fries?
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BRIEFS: Harrison's Dahmer honored as state golf coach of year
Harrison coach Josh Dahmer has been named Indiana's Coach of the Year for 2012 for boys golf by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). The award came after the Warriors won the IHSAA team state title and senior Sean Stone individual medal honors last spring.
Barnes nominated for IATCCC honor
Dylan Barnes, the cross-country and girls track coach at Memorial, has been nominated as a Coach of the Year candidate by the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches. All nominees will be honored on Feb. 1 in Indianapolis when the winner is announced.
Gatorade honors BR's Connor Sorrells
Barr-Reeve senior Connor Sorrells, who won the individual cross-country state title last fall, has been named the 2012-13 Gatorade Indiana Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year, it was announced Thursday. Sorrells, who has committed to run at Furman University next fall, is now in the running for the Gatorade National Cross Country Runner of the Year Award.
Moon named to ECHL All-Star Team
The Evansville IceMen's Nathan Moon has been named to the 20th annual ECHL All-Star Game set for Jan. 23 in Colorado. The 5-foot-11, 197-pound right winger has 27 points in 33 games this season. Moon and the IceMen play their second straight game on home ice at the Ford Center at 7:15 p.m. today when they entertain Kalamazoo.
Stern denies rumors of Kings' move
NBA Commissioner David Stern, in his first answers on the topic, said Thursday there has been "no purchase or sale agreement" submitted in relation to the potential purchase of the Sacramento Kings by a group that would move the team to Seattle. Stern shed little light on the situation while answering questions on a variety of topics during a news conference Thursday in London.
Oakland City stays unbeaten at home
The Oakland City University men moved to 12-0 at home with a 131-95 win over Heritage (Ind.) Baptist, the school's biggest scoring output since 2006 and eighth-best in school history. The Oaks (13-3) were led by Mitch Stahl with 27 points and former Bosse product Trevor Smith with 25 points on 12 of 13 shooting from the floor. Also, Cameron LeSear had a triple double for OCU with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists. Heritage Baptist is 4-6.
Dickey headlines team USA roster
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Pakistani forces have about 200 al Qaeda fighters surrounded close to the
border with Afghanistan. News reports said he Pakistani military is waiting
until daybreak to launch air attacks on the area.
Zawahiri is a close ally and confidant of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
Western officials suspect him of helping to plan the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in
the United States.
He also is suspected of complicity in the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen,
terrorist acts in Egypt and the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania. The United States has offered a reward of up to $25 million for his
Zawahiri and bin Laden met when the two men fought against the Soviets in
Afghanistan in the 1980s. Zawahiri was the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
terror group. He is a physician.
In the past two months, Pakistan has made a concerted effort to sweep through
the border area with Afghanistan. The mountainous area between the two
countries has given Taliban and al Qaeda members the opportunity to slip back
and forth between the two countries.
The Pakistan military seldom entered the area. It was a stronghold of Pathan
tribes, and an unwritten agreement among tribal leaders and the Pakistani
government left them undisturbed. The government of Pakistani President Purvez
Musharraf worked with tribal leaders before launching the offensive. Many
tribal leaders agreed with the government and worked to identify areas where
terrorists were holed up.
DoD officials praised the Pakistanis for their work. "Pakistan has been a
tremendous ally in the war against terror," said Army Lt. Col. Jim Cassella, a
Pentagon spokesman. "They have captured or killed more al Qaeda than any other
Speaking on background, U.S. officials said the United States has been working
with Pakistani officials economically to strengthen the country, and militarily
to strengthen the army's capabilities. "They are well-prepared for operations
in that mountainous environment," a U.S. official said.
U.S. officials would not say whether they have confirmation that Zawahiri is,
indeed, surrounded, and stressed that while his death or capture would further
weaken al Qaeda, it would not be a fatal blow to the terror organization.
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28th September, 2011
Residents and volunteers from New Oscott Village have presented
a collection of knitted blankets to a local dogs' rescue
Anne Jones and her friends have been knitting and crocheting
blankets since May to give to Ruff Luck Rescue, which rescues and
rehomes dogs in the Birmingham area. The charity, from Castle
Bromwich, rescues dogs that are abandoned. Without the charity,
which has rescued nearly 650 dogs in three years, most of them
would face being put to sleep after being in the pound for seven
"My friend helps out with this charity so I thought it would be
nice," said Anne, who is in charge of the project. "Everyone's
heard of bigger places like the Birmingham Dogs' Home, and I
thought it would be more special for us to help a smaller
Lisa Doody, who started the Charity three and a half years ago,
said: "There is no age limit or specific breed of the dogs we take
in and we try to find a new home for them all."
Volunteer receptionist Dorothy Hardiker has knitted 732 squares
on her own, each one with thirty stitches and a different pattern.
Dorothy said: "I suffer from spinal problems which have stopped me
knitting with big needles, but I could manage this. I used to do it
whilst watching the football on television and the more exciting
the game the faster I knitted."
Another volunteer, Sheila Harris, used to be in the Village's
crocheting group, which recently finished. She then joined the
knitting group and, with her crochet skills, became their "outreach
worker", joining all of the individual squares to create the
Several residents at New Oscott Village have adopted rescue
dogs. They provide company for their new owners and now have a
secure home, having been saved from an uncertain future.
New Oscott volunteers and residents pose with representatives of
the Ruff Luck rescue dog charity after knitting a blankets for
them. Far right: Anne Jones, who organised the event, and Lisa
Doody, who founded the charity.
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I'm a firm believer, when reviewing a book, in comparing a book to its predecessors. In this case, it's possible, because Kathy Reichs has written 12 previous Tempe Brennan novels.
The story she writes here, which takes place in locations from Montreal to North Carolina to Hawaii, involves a whole lot of different issues. Auto-erotic deaths, MIA/KIA's from...
Published on Aug. 30 2010 by Jill Meyer
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Also under the title "Mortal Remains"
Book 13, in the Temperance Brennan series
This installment is pretty much the Kathy Reichs we know and we have come to expect. The story centers on the world of JPAC (Joint POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action) Accounting Command (US DOD) and how far the military will go to find and bring home...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Compare apples to apples...,
Jill Meyer (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)
I'm a firm believer, when reviewing a book, in comparing a book to its predecessors. In this case, it's possible, because Kathy Reichs has written 12 previous Tempe Brennan novels.
The story she writes here, which takes place in locations from Montreal to North Carolina to Hawaii, involves a whole lot of different issues. Auto-erotic deaths, MIA/KIA's from Vietnam, shark-bitten bodies, Samoan gangs, daughters-with-problems, and an inactive love life are only a few of the diverse things Reichs touches on in "Spider Bones". The thing is, that as disconcerting as all this in-coming might be to a casual Reichs' reader, her fans come to expect it from her novels. I can't exactly compare Reichs' work with, say, Leo Tolstoy's, because she doesn't write as well. No one expects her to produce "War and Peace". She writes with workman-like prose and very odd plot lines. And does so fairly well.
It would be difficult to easily describe the plot of "Spider Bones". As I wrote above, there's a whole lot of "in-coming" and the reader never knows what's coming next. Reichs has the interesting/irritating habit of ending her chapters in cliff-hanging language. It's Reichs trademark and is present in every one of her books I've read.
"Spider Bones" is a good read for the Kathy Reichs fan. It might not appeal to more casual readers, but it is a good addition to her book list.
2.0 out of 5 stars Not the Best,
Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan) (Kindle Edition)
Also under the title "Mortal Remains"
Book 13, in the Temperance Brennan series
This installment is pretty much the Kathy Reichs we know and we have come to expect. The story centers on the world of JPAC (Joint POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action) Accounting Command (US DOD) and how far the military will go to find and bring home the bodies of fallen soldiers around the world. Of course as in all the novels we have a family drama to spice up the mystery and all the forensic science knowledge and real life criminal investigations are once again brought forward.
With this as backdrop the puzzle start with Dr. Brennan called on the scene of a drowning, victim of bizarre auto-erotic asphyxiation stunt gone horribly wrong. The body is identified as being a long-dead Vietnam War veteran John Lowery presumed buried in his hometown in North Carolina. This kick off a case that will have Tempe turn circles and take her all the way to Hawaii looking into Vietnam vets and Hawaiian gangs.
The plot is full of drama however I found it to be far-fetched and rather contrived as it moved along. The narration is told in a very didactic manner, choppy with an over-use of acronyms and scientific jargon. Initially I did find the story interesting but it quickly fell apart and lost its appeal. I really don't care how accurate police procedural are but give me outstanding characterization and I am a happy reader, here we have the dullest of characters and the most frustrating ones acting the same old way. The author has employed the same writing style over and over again, even if I was to some extend entertained I do think this formula is wearing thin and a change is highly needed, "Spider Bones" is far from being an exciting novel. Thank goodness it was a fast read….With this said I still will read further installments, I like the fact that the main plot is usual based on events that made the news at some point.
5.0 out of 5 stars All-Round Talent Kathy Reichs,
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This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Paperback)
I spotted this novel at the local book store and was immediately captivated by the story as well as the fact that I have become a pretty avid watcher of the tv series Bones of late. Realising that author Kathy Reichs is a producer and consultant on the show itself intrigued me into buying this book in the first place ... and then having trouble putting it down. The storyline was most intriguing and, in this case, gave me a good insight into Dr Temperance Brennan's life itself aside from the mysteries she tries to solve along the way. It also confirmed that, like her tv counterpart, the good doctor is not satisfied in simply performing her tasks as a forensic anthropologist but also delves into detective work that can cause her to become a target of someone not wishing (old) secrets revealed - in this case, even her daughter as well as her partner's offspring.
A most tantalising recount of deaths having occurred decades earlier with facts coming to light at a much later stage as is often the case. An accidental drowning triggering an identity mystery that Tempe simply cannot let go of and starts to investigate through her many connections. Kathy Reichs - a board-certified forensic anthropologist herself - also does not skimp on explanations where forensics are concerned, never leaving the reader in the dark as to what is going on and as to how and why the work is carried out.
This novel - written in fluid motion, easy to follow, with the reader never left wondering what is happening - inspired me to look into Kathy Reichs' previous books in the Dr Temperance Brennan series, of which this is the thirteenth adventure. Time to catch up!
5.0 out of 5 stars Shark Attack Leftovers and MIA Vietnam Remains,
Nicola Mansfield (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.
Kathy Reichs is in top form with this latest entry in the Tempe Brennan series. The first chapter starts out with an obscure and uncomfortable crime scene and continues on from there with an intricate mystery. One case leads to another, a fresh body leads to skeletal remains and soon Tempe and Ryan are trying to identify and determine the deaths of several bodies which send them to Hawaii. Tempe then finds herself called in by the local ME to help identify some odds & ends of human remains found from shark attacks. The addition of both daughters for the first time, making a foursome, adds some new dynamics to the personal relationships.
A fast paced case, with many trails to follow, and plenty of bodies. What first starts off as a weird death turns into identifying remains of soldiers from Vietnam and takes a turn toward organized drug crime and gangs in Hawaii. A very intricate and detailed case that gets bigger in scope as it goes along leaving the reader hard pressed to figure out. I did have a correct suspect in mind, but just where to place them, whether as a victim or villain of which case I couldn't quite put it all together myself. I found the solution very entertaining and the story more on par with her earlier work than some of the other more recent volumes (excepting 206 Bones, that is) . This was a quick, page turning read for me and for once I wasn't annoyed with Tempe and Ryan's relationship and it feels like the next book will be pivotal for them, and honestly Ms. Reichs I think the next book needs to settle their relationship once and for all. It has gone on long enough, already. Can't wait for the next book!
4.0 out of 5 stars Tempe Doesn't Enjoy Paradise,
Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 124,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." -- Revelation 2:7 (NKJV)
In the middle of a war, mistakes happen. Sometimes those mistakes cost lives. At other times, the mistakes launch improved lives. Spider Bones takes a long look at the difficulties of identifying remains from the Vietnam War and weaves a lot of good science into an intriguing story about a dead man who keeps dying, John Lowery. Along the way, some other little mysteries intrude . . . and Tempe tries to build a little love in Paradise (better known to those who live on Earth as Hawaii). The best-laid plans of all are quickly tossed into Fate's dumpster, and Tempe has all she can do to track down what's really been happening while unlimbering herself from some very awkward personal situations.
One of the high points of this book involves an explanation for a scientific phenomenon that occurs rarely that has always intrigued me. I was glad to find the explanation in the story to satisfy my curiosity about this quirky characteristic, but also to make the story a lot more compelling from a factual and plot perspective.
I just wish Tempe didn't have to suffer so much in her personal life. I suppose this is a plot device so we won't hate her for being so good, beautiful, talented, successful, etc. But it does get a little old.
5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Lost for Words,
Cor Lost For Words (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)
Source: Received from publicist. Many thanks goes to Loretta from Simon & Schuster for sending me this book for review. I received this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review.
My Rating: 5/5
Temperance Brennan returns in this, the thirteenth and latest, installment by renowned author Kathy Reichs. She needs to unravel the mystery surrounding three bodies, all having been identified as the same man. The cases have her starting out in Quebec, then heading out to North Carolina, and finally ending up in Hawaii. She is joined by her daughter, and by her colleague, Detective Andrew Ryan in Hawaii. The mystery deepens further while there, but Temperance will have to get to the bottom of things if she is going to find out the identities of these three men.
I love the show Bones, but I have to say that Reichs' books are absolutely my favourite of the two. I impatiently wait each year for Reichs' newest book, and this one does not disappoint. Tempe is thrown into the mix immediately. What seems to be an easy open and shut case ends up turning into an intricately woven web of deceit. Just when she thinks she's got things figured out, another layer presents itself. Reichs has done it again, she has created a masterful, and spellbinding book that you'll be hesitant to put down.
The relationship between Brennan and Detective Ryan plays well throughout the novel, and certainly adds dimension to the book. The secondary characters also add some familiarity and intense interaction which makes the read move along at a faster pace. The plot was intricate in detail and design. It was a true thriller and "whodunit". I'm almost sad that I finished the book as quickly as I did, but I eagerly await Reichs' next novel just the same.
All in all, an excellent addition to the Temperance Brennan collection. Fans of Reichs' novels will love this installment, and those who love the show Bones should give this one a read as it'll add to the whole Brennan experience. It'll take you on an exhilarating ride, and leave you breathless wanting more. I also have to say that this cover is absolutely stunning. I love it; almost as much as I love the book.
3.0 out of 5 stars Scripted more like an episodes of Bones...,
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)
The latest installment in the Dr. Brennan series looks more like a script for an episodes of Bones than the high intensity and more twisted books in this series. It remains a fairly easy and enjoyable read but Kathy Reichs went light on the "fear factor" this time around. in most case previous books would put her in danger on several occasions and the "fear factor" would start much earlier in the book. This one is really more procedural and only has one main story line (side stories again takes much less center stage than in previous boooks).
Not bad, just different
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing,
This review is from: Spider Bones: A Novel (Paperback)
I am an avid Kathy Reichs reader but this is the first time I was disappointed in one of her books. Although the plot and the forensics were interesting as usual, I found all the background historical information about the location a bit too much and the endless ups and downs in Tempe's relationship with Ryan (and this time both their daughters were thrown in for good measure) are beginning to wear on me. Get it together you guys!
5.0 out of 5 stars A real author,
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More writers are published today and most shouldn't get past the copy editors. Kathy Reichs knows her subject and is qualified to write about it. She pulls you in from the start and keeps you hooked in Spider Bones until the last page. Her subject, her style and her voice makes her a true author.
4.0 out of 5 stars Liked it.,
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Women sure can write books.What can one person say. kathy Reichs I've read almost all your books.Keep them coming running out of things to say for your reviews
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