Arne Blankerts is a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc and head of development at Ballyhoo advertising agency in Hamburg, Germany. In his role at thePHP.cc, he offers security consulting and training. Arne writes the monthly security column for php|architect and is a regular author for the German PHP Magazine. He is also co-author of several books and a frequent speaker at PHP and FOSS conferences. Arne is the inventor and lead developer of an open source site system “fCMS” (http://fcms.de) that is written in object-oriented PHP and makes heavy use of XML. In the unusual case of spare time he helps maintain the German translation of the PHP manual.

Some little known facts about Arne:

• He goes by the nick “TheSeer,” which stems from a
  cheat code in an old Amiga game, not the
  band.
• He has an unhealthy obsession with XML, and has been called Rob’s Apprentice by some.

Arne will be co-presenting a PHP Code Review Tutorial, as well as three-hour tutorial on PHP security. We are delighted that Arne will be joining us!