What they didn't tell me, however, is that they had arranged for a simple (but, as you will see, very effective) web-based system that allowed members of the audience to submit "captions" to the screen as I was speaking. The results were, of course, hilarious - mostly because they "forgot" to tell me about the idea until a few days after.

Be sure to check out the video of the video for some great one-liners.

• Sara Golemon - "php|works, Session Day 1 (aka Conf day 2)"
• Maggie Nelson - "php|works 2007: Thursday"
• Christopher Jones - "php|works Atlanta 2007 Thursday Wrap Up"
• Ben Ramsey - "php|works 2007: Day 2"

Keep an eye out tomorrow for more great summaries of the final day of the conference and be sure to check out our Talks page for links to the presentations the speakers have shared.

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.

The company I had pleasure of co-founding last summer is once again on the prowl for top-notch, Zend Certified PHP developers. We're taking the hunt for these folks to php|works in Atlanta. Whenever possible, Mashery will be luring the quality developers with free beer. That's right: free beer that is free, as in beer.

They're also having a drawing for an 8GB iPod Touch for anyone that can prove they have recently taken the Zend Certification Exam.

Company description:
Mashery is the leading provider of web services and API management solutions enabling software-driven companies to unlock and accelerate their web services channel. With its on-demand, fully hosted solution, Mashery takes away the cumbersome process and plumbing around managing web services. Mashery provides all the ingredients required to get web services up-and-running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that they will scale: usage/access management, tracking, metrics, commerce, performance optimization and developer/community tools all come pre-packaged. Mashery enables web services providers to focus their time, resources and capital on building their core software, not on creating web services management infrastructure.]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:27:00 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8628 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8628 Paul Jones has posted a teaser concerning his talks(s) at the upcoming php|works conference this year. One is about organizing your applications to make them easier to maintain and work better and the other is a follow up to some previous benchmarks he created comparing several of the popular PHP frameworks.

About The Benchmarking Talk - Easy one-liner: "Statistical Histories for Fun and Profit." And I do mean profit: the better your apps runs on a given stack, the more eyeballs you get on your ads (or, the more users you can handle).

He will be talking about why benchmarking your app is important, how to benchmark a framework and, the thing everyone's waiting for - his benchmark stats comparing several popular frameworks.

Paul also requests that, if possible, one developer from the teams of each of the other frameworks (besides Solar of course) could be in attendance to critique the talk and help point out issues either with the talk or in his methods.

We're happy to announce that, as in previous years, all attendees to php|works will have a chance to take the Zend PHP 5 Certification Exam free of charge. More information can be found on our conference pages.

php|works will be happening September 13th and 14th at the Sheraton Gateway in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information on pricing and registration, check out this page on the conference site.

Especially of interest are our Thursday keynotes on "PHP 6: The Future" by Andrei Zmievski, and "PHP 4 is dead! Migrate your code" by Chris Shiflett. We've also added a tutorial session on Flex and PHP by Mike Potter, of Adobe, for those who opt to take part in the tutorial day.

For more information on the conference and to check out the rest of the schedule, head on over to the official conference website and check it out. You can also register today to reserve your spot at this great three day conference (one day packed with tutorials and two full of talks from great speakers on great topics).

Included in this year's lineup are talks like:

• Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium - Sebastian Bergmann
• Writing Maintainable Code - Jeff Moore
• Oraganizing Your PHP Projects - Paul Jones
• Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay
• Securing the PHP Environment With PhpSecInfo - Ed Finkler

There's lots more where these came from - it's a jam-packed two day conference with great topics to appeal to everyone. Check out the main conference site for more information on how to attend or just head over to the registration page and get your spot reserved today.

php|architect invites you to Harness the Power of PHP, at this year's php|works conference.

This year's edition of php|works will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the Braves and of the Atlanta PHP user group, on September 13th and 14th, with an extra tutorial day on September 12th.

Potential speakers can check out the Call for Papers and everyone can check out the full site for all of the details. Registration is also open to grab your spot today for this great community event.