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This morning I accepted a postion as supreme overlord team leader for the PHP team in The Combine's Dev Derby.

What is Dev Derby?

The Combine (http://thecombine.org) is a tech event in Bloomington, IN going on from Sept. 9th-12th. On Sept. 11 there will be a "Dev Derby". This is a one-day programming event which challenges teams, representing different programming languages, to build a web-based application for use by non-profits. The code will be released as open source, giving it life after the day has ended. There will be 5 teams competing. My suspicions say that there will be a Rails team and a CF team in addition to the PHP team.

I'm not sure how finalized some of the information I have on the details are but here is what I do know:

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Apparently my php-fu has become good enough that I've been asked to review books. So sometime in the future I will talk about Packt Publishing's book, "PHP Team Development". My complimentary copy is apparently in the mail, so hopefully I learn to read by then.

Seriously though, I hope this book will help me tweak my current team practices. Guess I'll find out after it arrives.