The document discusses Graham Weldon and his background working with open source software. It notes that Graham has 12 years of experience as a PHP developer, and is also a developer evangelist and open source contributor involved with projects like CakePHP, CandyCane, Sydney PHP User Group, HTML5 Boilerplate, ThreeJS, and LibGit. It provides details on Graham's educational background, starting his career during his engineering degree and working for various local companies, and how he was later noticed for his open source contributions and offered positions at CakeDC and in Japan.

1. Graham Weldon

2. OPEN
SOURCE
SOFTWARE
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3. 2
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4. 2 ABOUT ME
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http://grahamweldon.com
@predominant
http://github.com/predominant
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5. 2 ABOUT ME
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http://grahamweldon.com
@predominant
http://github.com/predominant
PHP Developer for 12 years
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6. 2 ABOUT ME
Graham Weldon
http://grahamweldon.com
@predominant
http://github.com/predominant
PHP Developer for 12 years
Developer Evangelist
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7. 2 ABOUT ME
Graham Weldon
http://grahamweldon.com
@predominant
http://github.com/predominant
PHP Developer for 12 years
Developer Evangelist
Open Source contributor
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8. 2 ABOUT ME
Graham Weldon
http://grahamweldon.com
@predominant
http://github.com/predominant
PHP Developer for 12 years
Developer Evangelist
Open Source contributor
CakePHP
CandyCane
Sydney PHP User Group
HTML5 BoilerPlate
ThreeJS
LibGit
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9. 3
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10. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
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11. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
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12. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
3. Worked for local companies
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13. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
3. Worked for local companies
4. During time at Fluid Lino, started
looking at PHP Frameworks
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14. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
3. Worked for local companies
4. During time at Fluid Lino, started
looking at PHP Frameworks
5. Was noticed for contributions
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15. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
3. Worked for local companies
4. During time at Fluid Lino, started
looking at PHP Frameworks
5. Was noticed for contributions
6. Offered position at CakeDC
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16. 3 BACKGROUND
1. Studied B. Engineering (Software) at
Newcastle University
2. Started working during my degree
studies
3. Worked for local companies
4. During time at Fluid Lino, started
looking at PHP Frameworks
5. Was noticed for contributions
6. Offered position at CakeDC
7. Offered position in Japan!
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18. MVC STRUCTURE
SUMMARY
CAKEPHP
DEMO!
OPEN SOURCE
Q AND A

19. Graham Weldon

20. MVC
CakePHP
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22. MVC
Structure
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23. 7
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24. 7 IMPLEMENTATIONS
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25. 8
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26. 8 SOME FRAMEWORKS
Cake
PHP Symfony Lithium
Established 2003 Established 2007 Established 2009
Fat Models Module oriented MicroFramework
Thin Controllers Package based Fast routing/
Logic-less PHP Twig based Views dispatch
Views (Less-logic PHP Views
Views)
(ideally) Version 0
Version 2
Version 2
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27. 9
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28. 9 CASE STUDY
1. CakePHP is one of the
largest, most popular
PHP frameworks
worldwide
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29. 9 CASE STUDY
1. CakePHP is one of the
largest, most popular
PHP frameworks
worldwide
2. Its been established for
many years with a solid
growth
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30. 9 CASE STUDY
1. CakePHP is one of the
largest, most popular
PHP frameworks
worldwide
2. Its been established for
many years with a solid
growth
3. In many ways, its ahead
of its time
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31. 9 CASE STUDY
1. CakePHP is one of the
largest, most popular
PHP frameworks
worldwide
2. Its been established for
many years with a solid
growth
3. In many ways, its ahead
of its time
4. I’m a core developer
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32. 10
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33. 10 MVC STRUCTURE
MODEL VIEW
Data Output
CONTROLLER
Control
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34. 11
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35. 11 3 STEPS TO SUCCESS
STEP 1 STEP 3
Define Database Customise Code
STEP 2
Generate Code
MODELS VIEWS BUSINESS
LOGIC SECURITY OTHERS
CONTROLLERS
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37. Let’s Build
Something!
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38. 13
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39. 13 3 STEPS TO SUCCESS
STEP 1 STEP 3
Define Database Customise Code
STEP 2
Generate Code
MODELS VIEWS BUSINESS
LOGIC SECURITY OTHERS
CONTROLLERS
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40. 14
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41. 14 DATABASE DESIGN
USERS TAGS
POSTS
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42. 15
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43. 15 DATABASE DESIGN
JOIN
TABLE
TAGS
USERS
POSTS
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44. 16
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45. 16 DATABASE
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46. 17
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47. 17 CODE GENERATION
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48. 18
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49. 18 WHAT HAVE WE GOT?
MODELS
CONTROLLERS
VIEWS
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50. Graham Weldon

51. at thelook
Lets code
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52. Graham Weldon

53. But... What
Does it do?
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54. Graham Weldon

55. What did I
just learn?
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56. 22
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57. 22 CAKEPHP’S MVC
FAT MODELS
THIN CONTROLLERS
PLAIN PHP VIEWS
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58. 23
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59. 23 WHAT ELSE?
80% GENERATED
20% EFFORT
100% AWESOME
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60. Graham Weldon

61. OPEN
Source
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62. 25
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63. 25 HISTORY
1950-
1970 1970-
1982 1983
Sharing software Developing Richard Stallman
for free was software founds the Free
necessary to becomes more Software
ensure that and more Foundation to
hardware expensive to change the way
purchased was put achieve. software is built,
to good use. Companies close distributed and
Without a free their software and shared.
interchange of retain tight control To create software
software and over their digital freedom for all.
ideas, hardware “investments”.
would not have This leads to less
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64. 26
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65. 26 HISTORY
1998 2010 2013
“Open Source” Open source Anything is
term is coined at hardware possible
a FSF strategy becomes
meeting to avoid mainstream,
confusion with bringing technical
Netscape’s advancements to
impending users and a
navigator source sharing of ideas.
release.
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66. 27
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67. 27 PERCEPTION
How “Enterprise” businesses view developers
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68. 28
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69. 28 PERCEPTION
How “Enterprise” businesses view open source
developers
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71. 29 PERCEPTION
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72. 30
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73. 30 PERCEPTION
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75. 31 COMPARISON
Business Freelance Open
Source
Working for a Working for Free at last? Yes!
company where yourself, right? Freedom in
you have a boss, Wrong, you’re various software
maybe a project working for your licenses allows
manager, or clients, and they you to use, modify
otherwise, orders dictate what and release
coming from happens for the software however
management. most part. you like.
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76. 32
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77. 32 CORPORATE LIFE
BUSINESS DEVELOP
ANALYSIS
Assess needs Build out the
and costings solution,
minimum time,
maximum
output
PROJECT DEFINED
What we need
to build and
achieve
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79. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
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80. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
2. This makes complete sense.
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81. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
2. This makes complete sense.
3. If something doesn’t directly
improve the bottom line, its unlikely
to be approved
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82. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
2. This makes complete sense.
3. If something doesn’t directly
improve the bottom line, its unlikely
to be approved
4. Development is controlled
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83. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
2. This makes complete sense.
3. If something doesn’t directly
improve the bottom line, its unlikely
to be approved
4. Development is controlled
5. Development comes from corporate
goals and needs
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84. 33 CORPORATE LIFE
1. Businesses are profit driven.
2. This makes complete sense.
3. If something doesn’t directly
improve the bottom line, its unlikely
to be approved
4. Development is controlled
5. Development comes from corporate
goals and needs
6. Not much freedom (Usually)
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85. 34
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86. 34 OPEN SOURCE
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87. 35
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88. 35 OPEN SOURCE
COMMUNITY
FLEXIBILITY
NEW TECHNOLOGY
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89. Graham Weldon

90. Innovation
is driven by
frustration
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91. 37
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92. 37 FRUSTRATION IS KEY
100
Truly great software is
developed at or after the
75 point where a need is not
fulfilled well enough, that
a develop goes out and
50 builds the correct solution
on their own.
25 This results in software
that has purpose,
meaning and a true useful
0 application in the world.
1 2 3 4 5
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93. 38
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94. 38 WHY OPEN SOURCE?
1. It get you exposure in
the global developer
community
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95. 38 WHY OPEN SOURCE?
1. It get you exposure in
the global developer
community
2. Other people may
need / want your
solution. (Help others)
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96. 38 WHY OPEN SOURCE?
1. It get you exposure in
the global developer
community
2. Other people may
need / want your
solution. (Help others)
3. Others may find issues
or improvements, and
contribute those back
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97. 38 WHY OPEN SOURCE?
1. It get you exposure in
the global developer
community
2. Other people may
need / want your
solution. (Help others)
3. Others may find issues
or improvements, and
contribute those back
4. It helps make you a
better developer
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98. 39
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99. 39 MANAGEMENT
1. All projects are different.
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100. 39 MANAGEMENT
1. All projects are different.
2. Based on what works best for the
community and users
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101. 39 MANAGEMENT
1. All projects are different.
2. Based on what works best for the
community and users
3. Generally a “meritocracy”
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102. 39 MANAGEMENT
1. All projects are different.
2. Based on what works best for the
community and users
3. Generally a “meritocracy”
4. ... unless there is corporate backing
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103. 40
responsibilities are objectively
assigned to individuals based upon
their "merits", namely intelligence,
credentials, and education, determined
through evaluations or examinations.
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104. 40 MERITOCRACY?
responsibilities are objectively
assigned to individuals based upon
their "merits", namely intelligence,
credentials, and education, determined
through evaluations or examinations.
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105. 41
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106. 41 TOOLS / SERVICES
Github Source
Forge Codeplex
Travis
CI BitBucket ...
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108. THANK
you
www.YourName.com
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