Event - Damian Gostomski | Freelance Web Development

Multipack Presents, February 2012 Writeup

On Saturday, I attended the first Multipack Presents event of 2012 in Birmingham. It was a great day full of interesting topics and presentations, and many geeky conversations over a beer. The general theme was about converting side projects into a business, with many of the presentations focusing on the speakers personal experience of converting a side project into their full time job. One of the points made very early on, was that we’re fortunate enough to work in an industry where we’re very passionate about what we do, however that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to push that further.…

Estimates or “How to dig your own grave”

This is part of the series covering the PHP Nw 2011 conference. View the rest of the posts on this event here. This was one of the best talks that I’d attended, despite not being about PHP, but about the problems with estimates and how to avoid them. Rowan wasn’t even shaken by the multitude of technical issues which delayed it, but I’m sure he’d factored in the risk of that happening. The talk was split into two main parts, starting off with the possible mistakes, and then how to spot problems and resolve them. It’s certainly making a difference…