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PHPWomen.org: BarCampMelbourne2008 Rundown

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:33:00 -0600

Kathy Ried has posted about some of her experience (including being a speaker) at this year's BarCampMelbourne 2008:

BarCampMelbourne2008 was, simply put, AWESOME! BarCampMelbourne2008 was held at Thoughtworks [wikipedia] at 155 Queen Street, Melbourne on 23 Feb 08, and had approximately 60 in attendance.

She talks not only about the conference itself (the male vs female attendance, the presence of Apple laptops and the age of attendees) as well as her talk on the advancement of practices at her workplace and other talks like an intro to APhpLix and how to use PHP Under Control.

Zend Developer Zone: PHP Quebec Conference Summary

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:44:00 -0500

For those that weren't able to make it to this year's PHP Quebec conference, Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone has posted daily summaries to get you caught up.

The first day's post covers the usual - what the conference is like, the meeting area, some of the people he met up with, and the sessions he attended (including a mention of Rob Richards' "SOA: Beyond the Hype" talk.

The second day's post is jammed with more information about the conference, including all of the great talks he attended, including:

Mike Potter's "Rich Internet application development with Flex"
John Coggeshall's "Top PECL Picks"
Graham Charters' "Service Component Architecture"

Rob Allen's Blog: PHP UK Conference 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:04:00 -0600

Those that didn't get a chance to check out this year's PHP UK Conference can get a little taste of what it was like from Rob Allen's perspective in his latest blog post today.

Included in the happenings he mentions were the talk that Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone gave on mashups, Kevin Henney's look at Object Orientation, and Rasmus Lerdorf's look at PHP5 performance/security. He also mentions meeting up with Dagfinn Reiersol (author of PHP in Action) to "talk shop" a bit about writing books.

You can check out all of the details about the conference that was over on their website including summaries of the talks that were given during this jam-packed one day event.

Community News: PHPLondon Conference 2007 Announced

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:21:40 -0600

As posted here by Marc Gear and here by Joshua Eichorn, the PHPLondon user group has announced their PHPLondon Conference 2007.

After the success of 2006 the PHP London user group are staging the UK's second dedicated PHP conference on Friday, 23 February 2007.

The conference will be a low-cost event, costing £50 for the day. There is a 230 person limit on the number of delegates we can support, and demand is expected to be high, so make sure you register early. If you'd like to register, check out the conference's main page and enter your information today.

The conference will be happening over at the Keyworth Centre and speakers attending include Cal Evans (of Zend's Developer Zone), Simon Laws (of IBM) and Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP).

Chris Shiflett's Blog: ZendCon Wrapup

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:42:00 -0600

Chris Shiflett has posted his look back at this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo on his blog today.

It has been more than two weeks since ZendCon, yet I can't seem to manage to find the time to recap the event. (Work has been keeping me busy.) This will be brief.

In the post, he talks about the attendees, his security talk, the community deck of cards, Wez Furlong's talk, and more. Check out his post for more info on the conference and what all went on.

IBM developerWorks: 2006 DC PHP Conference (Recap)

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:44:00 -0600

Over on the IBM developerWorks blog, Patrick Mueller has posted his wrapup of this year's DC PHP Conference.

The conference was pretty small; about 80 people; in two small-ish conference rooms in the hotel. But everyone was great. Conferences are all about the people anyway. With the small crowd, it meant being able to spend time with a significant percentage of the people there. It was a mix of PHP thought leaders, everyday PHP programmers, and, since it was based in DC, a lot of folks focused on the unique industry that is DC - government.

He talks about some of the talks given - including Chris Shiflett's security talk and Eli White's look at high volume PHP & MySQL scaling techniques. He also mentions some of the "general chatter" that was happening around him. Check out the rest of the blog entry for more.

Chris Shiflett's Blog: DC PHP Conference Recap

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:38:00 -0500

After having attended this year's DC PHP Conference, Chris Shiflett has come back with his own recap of the event including talks given and people met.

This past Thursday, I attended the DC PHP Conference. Since I was only there for a day, I'm sure I missed a lot, but I did manage to do some of the things on my list.

Talks hhe mentions were Mike Naberezny's look at Getting Started with the Zend Framework and Eli White's High Volume PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques talk. He also mentions meeting David Recordon from VeriSign and some work that Damien Seguy on tracking statistics on open phpinfo pages (about half still have register globals on!).

Kore Nordmann's Blog: Weekender talks online

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:33:00 -0500

Kore Nordmann has posted about the talks from the PHPWeekender event being posted online.

The talks followed three topics:

Best Practices - security, performance up to basic OOP features in PHP and debugging
Object-oriented programming - "OO Candy store"
and the ever-popular "Enterprise PHP"
You can check out the slides and information for each of the talks on Kore's own page listing them out (as well as some other great talks from other conferences).

Elizabeth Naramore's Blog: Thanks to PHP Appalachia Sponsors

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:46:00 -0500

On her blog, Elizabeth Naramore has posted some thanks to the sponsores out there that are helping out with this year's PHP Appalachia event and some last minute details for those attending.

I wanted to give a quick acknowledgement to our sponsors for the event, as posted by PHP Appalachia site. We have so many sponsors, and so many door prizes to give away, a good time will definitely be had by all. Their donations are really helping our grass roots gathering come together, and we all greatly appreciate their efforts. I also want to give a quick thanks to Cal Evans who also personally donated numerous t-shirts and goodies as well.

She gives a rough schedule for things, including how the talks will run and links to some info on the area to let you prepare for your trip.

Site News: Conference Talks Page Launched

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:08:39 -0500

Rather than clogging up the lines around here with all of the "I've posted my slides" postings that come with all of the conferences this fall, we've decided to gather all of the ones we know of all in the same place - our Talks Page.

Since the php/db|works conference is currently going on, those are the first that we've posted. There's only been a few people that have spoken up in their blogs about it, but there's definitely more out there.

In fact, if you're one of those giving a talk at the conference and have no place to put the files for your presentation, let us know and we'll post them here and link to them for you.

Even if you're a conference-goer, you can help out. If you hear of someone mentioning where they're posting their presentation and notice it's not on our list, drop us a line and let us know.