Legal --------------------- I would love to have a session on the legal side of our profession. What can we do to protect ourselves from dead-beat clients. Where can we turn when a client refuses to pay, or just goes missing. What can we can can't we require from clients in regards to contracting? Is it in our interest to require more/less money up front based on previous cases seen. Mediation? Arbitration? Is it right for you? Who owns the code if a client doesn't make final payment? What if the client does pay in full, are you free to reuse the code you have written for them? When is it not legal to do so?
Accounting --------------------- ++ Project Management --------------------- Should you have your simple clients setup in a ticket system, is a ticket system too much for a simple 1-2 developer setup? Sales (finding work) --------------------- Where do you go, how do you get work? Word or mouth? Marketplace? Success and failures of each method of finding work. Some more techy things I would love to see covered are: - Upcoming changes in 5.4 and how they matter to me - General programming know hows. I didn't go to college, and I am self taught. What the hell is a singleton good for? Etc. We see a lot of terms flung around that people may just not understand, so maybe it's time to level the jargon playing field. - Security! What is and isn't secure. - How to detect server issues vs. software issues. - Debugging (can we really ever get enough of this?) - Unit Testing (a howto and why would be awesome!) - Framework walk throughs - Pitfalls of PHP Just a few of my ideas. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
