Hey Paul, This years event is cheaper than last years. We've made sure that our sponsors are aware of our costs and concerns, and that the venue is co-operating so we can deliver a more cost effective solution.
If you're only able to attend one of the portions, then you need to decide if you want training or if you want to catch up on new and interesting talks and mingle with people more. The training schedule is somewhat hard to lay down in a concrete fashion. There is two streams for the workshops, one aimed at beginners to intermediate and the other for the more advanced users. To begin, we start off both groups with a startup application build so that the more advanced and intermediate topics have a common codebase to work from. The workshops are a great way to get low cost training while being able to mingle and network with some CakePHP users. The big names in the CakePHP community generally make it for the conference portion, if anything, and this is a good opportunity to meet some interesting and influential people within the community. I'd recommend going to both. Perhaps share the cost of the ticket with your employer if it comes to that. We hope to see you at CakeFest 2011! Cheers, Graham On Jul 13, 6:45 pm, WebbedIT <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, only just realised CakeFest is in UK this year! Would really > love to come to whole thing, but I have not got £1k floating around to > fund 3-4 days in Manchester :o( > > Considering just going to workshops or conference as would only have > to fund one night, but can't make my mind up what would be best? > Workshops on face of it seem basic, but would be gr8 to see how the > CakeDC team code a project from scratch and I know I should be > practicing some of the topics covered on day two more. Conference > should attract more seasoned developers and has some juicy topics too, > plus it's the cheaper part of the 4 days. > > What are others doing? Would like to meet anyone coding with CakePHP, > but would ideally like to meetup with some UK developers who I could > continue to keep in touch with after CakeFest and previous attempts to > find other peeps in the North East (I'm from Boldon Colliery - between > Newcastle and Sunderland) have drawn a blank. > > Exciting times, Paul. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
