What Makes a Great Developer — Matthew Turland — php[tek] 2016
This is a recording from our 11th annual php[tek] conference in St. Louis. We record and release a number of talks that happen in our main track room, but this is just a sampling of the 40+ sessions that happen at each event we host.
Speaker: Matthew Turland
Bio: Matthew Turland has been working with PHP since 2002. He has been both an author and technical editor for php|architect Magazine, spoken at multiple conferences, and contributed to numerous PHP projects. He holds the PHP 5 and Zend Framework ZCE certifications and is the author of "php|architect's Guide to Web Scraping with PHP" and co-author of SitePoint's "PHP Master: Write Cutting-Edge Code." In his spare time, he likes to bend PHP to his will to scrape web pages and run IRC bots.
Abstract: Regardless of our technical specialization, level of seniority, or current job, we all want to be the best developers we can be. But how do we know if we're improving or even what we need to improve? In this talk, we'll discuss the crucial knowledge, values, skills, goals, and challenges you should consider pursuing on your own path to being a great developer.