From Sara:

Day one's of php|works is over and as usual, I have nothing but good things to say about this php|architect presentation. [...] My tutorial, PHP Extension Writing, was next in the Paris room (after lunch), and it went off a little better than I'd feared and I managed to give out three copies of my book as attendance/participation prizes.

And from Christopher:

The great thing about staying in the conference hotel is that you can roll out of bed at 5:30am body-clock time and still make it to the first session 30 minutes later with time to grab a complimentary pastry. [...] After [Paul Reinheimer's YUI] session I took a few moments to verify my notebook drives the projector - all fine once the projector picked up my screen resolution. [...] Now I'm back in my room, trying to polish up my second talk - the new one - so that I can spend the evenings talking properly with PHP users and developers.

These quotes are just the tip of the iceberg for what the two shared, so be sure to check out their full posts to get their perspective on the conference. Also keep an eye out for more great summaries to be posted here to get other developers' thoughts and happenings during this two-day conference.

SymfonyCamp is an event for the true fan of the symfony framework, or for those who want to learn more about this PHP5 MVC web application framework. During the business day, the power of open source for the enterprise will be the main theme, with symfony taking a central role. During the technology days, developers can geek out during sessions on a variety of topics, with a separate beginner track and a separate expert track depending on your symfony skill level.

If you sign up before August 17th, you'll get the early bird price of 100 Euro. After that, it's a 150 registration charge. This includes the location, the talks and a copy of your very own of "The Definitive Guide To Symfony" from APress.

Check out the conference website for the full details on this great three-day event.

Included in the list for this year's conference are talks like:

• Optimizing Service Oriented Architectures with PHP - Glen Campbell
• The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay
• Implementing Access Control with Zend Framework - Darby Felton
• Give Your Site A Boost With Memcached - Ben Ramsey
• PHP Diversity - PHP applications in a Heterogeneous IT Environment - Joe Stagner
• PHP::$unicode->i18n() - Andrei Zmievski

Check out the full speaker's list here and the main conference site for details on pricing, lodging and all other conference-related information.

Finally I got around to posting some of my old pictures from IPC2k4. A lot of the regulars, some faces who we haven't seen in a while. Enjoy.

Be sure not to miss the shot of one of Zend's "founding fathers" immortalized in a coupon.