Wez Furlong I am Wez Furlong, Chief Software Architect at Message Systems. We're responsible for building an awesome Messaging Platform.

I'm also a PHP Core developer and OpenSource contributor, residing in Maryland, USA with Juliette, Xander and Lily. (read more)

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Getting IT Done

20th May 2009 @ 18:15 EDT
updated 23rd May 2009 @ 18:54 EDT

The slides from my "Getting IT Done" session at php|tek can be found on slideshare.net; Enjoy!

PS: I would be grateful if you were there and could rate the talk on joind.in

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Slides: PHP / Cocoa / Objective-C

25th July 2008 @ 00:15 EDT
updated 25th July 2008 @ 00:16 EDT

Here are the slides from my Cocoa talk:

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Slides: PHP Streams

3rd July 2008 @ 00:00 EDT

Here are the slides from my Streams talk; they cover a variety of bits and pieces of streams background and implementation that may or may not be useful to you.

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Slides: PHP and COM

25th June 2008 @ 22:29 EDT
updated 25th June 2008 @ 22:31 EDT

This slide deck is from php|works 2004. There's a lot of material in the speaker notes, which I've painstakingly pasted into the comment on the slideshare representation (wouldn't it be cool if it could automatically do that?).

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Just in case slideshare vanishes, the PowerPoint version is also available: PHP and COM

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Slides: Best Mailing Practices

25th June 2008 @ 00:15 EDT
updated 25th June 2008 @ 00:17 EDT

Here are the slides from my Best Mailing Practices talk.

While I was googling around to find the abstract I submitted with this, I discovered that there's an audio recording of me giving the talk at ZendCon 2007.

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Slides: PDO

24th June 2008 @ 22:38 EDT
updated 24th June 2008 @ 22:50 EDT

[I've just noticed that the omniti.com re-design broke the various links from my blog to the slides I had been storing there. So I'm trying out slideshare; I'll be revisiting the slides I've given in the past and blogging one entry per presentation]

Here are the extended slides from my PDO talk. When I first put this talk together it was for a long hour slot, but conference sessions started to diminish in length and I had to pull out certain slides to avoid running over every time.

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I have positions open for server/infrastructure software development (C) and QA.

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