Overview for community

Most of our clients don't run IT companies. But we must all consider the digital and cultural transformations required to support remote working - sometimes at short notice.

This year was my first time at Scotland PHP - I'd heard good things after the conference last year (which was their first) and so had "buy Scotland PHP ticket" on my to-do list when I received an email saying they'd like me to speak there! Most excellent!

PHP North West has always been one of our favourite events, for some of us it was our first conference, and has held a special place ever since. This year the team went along to PHPNW17 to learn, mingle, and get to know more of the development community that we love so much.

I get asked a fair bit when speaking at events what it's like, how it works with my job - I thought I'd go a little bit into that here.

I would like to start off by saying that all of the staff at Viva IT were all incredibly friendly and would help answer any question I had to the best of their ability. Going into the work experience I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I did however know what I wanted to get from it - which was to see actual software development on a professional level.