Back in October 2010, I was amazingly lucky, and won a ticket to the PHPBenelux 2011 conference! stuff like that doesn’t often happen to me, infact, phpnw is one of the few places I’ve ever won anything, the previous year I won a copy of PHP Object Oriented Solutions.

With much excitement, I arranged to travel with Rob Allen to the conference, as we are in (relatively) close proximity, and traveling with someone is always better than traveling alone.

As the months quickly passed by, the conference schedule was soon posted, and I became immediately impressed with the lineup, with speakers from America making an appearance along with the big names in PHP from Europe, this was going to be a great conference.

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