Nashville PHPUG Symfony Speakers Announced

Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Will Fitch in News

On April 24th, Travis Black and Brent Shaffer of Centre{source} will be presenting the Symfony PHP framework. This is our second demonstration after having Shawn McCool present CodeIgniter last month. We are excited to have Centre{source} and look forward to their demonstration.

Presenter Bios

Travis Black, Developer, Centre{source}
Travis Black is a software developer currently employed centre{source} interactive strategies. He has been developing web applications in php since 2004. After some experience developing in Ruby, using both the Rails and Merb frameworks, he spent a good deal of time attempting to find a php alternative. In the end, he found symfony, and fell in love. Travis and symfony were married last year and have lived together happily ever since.

Brent Shaffer, Developer, Centre{source}
Brent Shaffer is a symfony developer and architect at centre{source} interactive strategies. He graduated from Belmont University in 2008 with a degree in Commercial Music Technology and a minor in Computer Science. He has experience with the .NET framework, but has seen the light, and has been a symfony zealot ever since. He has also done some other cool stuff.