The Parts They Don’t Tell You
I've given various talks at PHP and tech conferences over the years and at the end of 2014 was asked to do my first keynote at the PHP World conference in Washington, D.C. Here are the slides for the talk. I wasn't sure how it would go, given I'd never been on the "big stage" as a keynote speaker before, and I was the opening keynote for the conference.
According to joind.in, it actually went really well and was rated 5 stars with 29 votes. The talk is 40 minutes long, so feel free to read the joind.in reviews before deciding if it's worth your time. Here's the original talk description:
Somewhere around 2005 and 2006 my friend and I started tinkering around with building a better shopping cart experience because all the others sucked. Since 2007, we've processed over half a billion dollars worth of transactions and enabled thousands of online stores. It was really, really hard. This talk will tell the story of taking some code and persevering it into a company called FoxyCart. If you've ever wanted the liberty of being your own boss, hopefully you'll find yourself in this story and determine if you have what it takes to succeed.
(Note: the video says 2015, but it was actually 2014)
