A new announcement has been posted to the P3 podcast website - a special live broadcast of the show will be happening in July 29th:

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 for a special live edition of php|architect's P3 Podcast. It will be special not only because we will be be broadcasting video via Yahoo!Live, but it will also be Sean's last P3 podcast.

If you want to join in, show up at Paul's Yahoo!Live feed at around 9PM Eastern (America/Montreal) to be a part of the show.

Sean will be no longer hosting the podcast and will be leaving php|architect and will be joining the ranks of OmniTI as a part of their PHP + Security group.

The php|architect folks have announced the pricing for their php|works/PyWorks conference coming in November.

Attendance pricing for php|works and PyWorks consists of a single price for the main conference (which is held on November 13 and 14) and an optional additional fee for the tutorial day (November 12). Note that you do not need to sign up for the tutorial day if you only want to attend the main conference.

A normal attendance package will cost around $600 CAD with the pricing dropping down to $500 CAD for academic and government attendees. If you just want to attend the tutorials, it'll only cost you about $250 CAD. Check out the signup page more more information on which group you could qualify for.

php|architect has officially announced their next conference happening in Atlanta in November - php|works 08:

With over 30 talks and 5 tutorials, php|works is a great opportunity to learn from the best experts in PHP world-and to meet and network with fellow PHP enthusiasts from every walk of life.

There's a special sister conference going on at the same time for those focused on the Python language - PyWorks. The events will be happening November 12th through the 14th with the Call for Papers starting July 25th. You can get more information (like location, travel info, etc) as the full sites are launched at phpworks.mtacon.com and pyworks.mtacon.com.

The php|architect folks have released a pre-announcement about this year's php|works conference:

Many of our readers and conference attendees have been asking about php|works 2008 so they can block it off on their calendars and make other fall plans accordingly. This year, we will be returning to Atlanta, Georgia (USA), November 12-14, 2008.

Their Call for Papers for the conference will be coming out later on this week (the week of June 15th), so if you're looking for a venue to share your PHP knowledge, keep an eye out (and we'll announce it here too).

As was mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, a Dutch PHP TestFest has been announced by Stefan Koopmanschap in a recent blog entry:

(from the ZDZ translation):

We are very proud that testing guru Sebastian Bergmann will be present at the meeting! Sebastian is the man behind Unit the test framework PHPUnit, and is seen as the authority in the field of tests and quality control in the PHP community.

The event will be happening on May 10th starting at about noon and going until around 4:30 in the afternoon. You can get more details from Stefan's blog entry including a link to register for the event.

Derick Rethans has posted an announcement about this year's PHP Vikinger unconference in Skien, Norway:

The PHP Vikinger unconference will be held for the third year in Skien, Norway. Just like previous years it follows directly after eZ Systems conference which puts this year's PHP Vikinger on June 21st, the longest day of the year.

He also links to pictures from previous years (nice hat Rasmus!) and a report from an attendee of last year's event. Check out the event's site for more information.

Mike Lively has made the announcement that the Las Vegas area finally has its own user group:

I am pleased to announce that Las Vegas finally has a PHP User Group and our first meeting is...tomorrow. I am pretty excited as I know there is a fairly decent size PHP programmer community in LV, it just hasn't been organized yet.

Their meeting is later today (April 11th) at 4pm at PT's Pub east of I15 and south of 215. It's an "anything goes" sort of even so expect to come, socialize and meet up with lots of great developers from the area.

According to this post on the Zend Developer Zone website (a press release from Zend), they're classifying Windows Server 2008 as being certified "PHP ready".

This announcement is the latest in a series of collaborations between Zend and Microsoft aimed at delivering high performance and reliability for PHP applications running on the Windows Server platform. Several of these enhancements have been contributed back to the PHP community.

As a part of the project, Microsoft has even put effort into ensuring that several of the popular PHP packages (like Mambo and WordPress) work right out of teh box with a Windows Server 2008 installation.

Ivo Jansch has posted more details about this year's Dutch PHP Conference happening in Amsterdam this June on the 13th and 14th.

I'm proud to announce that we're organizing another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, with the help of the great people at Zend. It will be in Amsterdam on June 13 and 14 this year. Last year we organized it for the first time, and based on feedback from our visitors we have made several changes to this years event.

Changes include the expansion into two days, increased capacity and the primary language of the conference is English this year. They also included an interesting twist - allowing those attending (or potentially attending) the conference to submit their thoughts to the "Call for Ideas" they would like to see presented.

The main conference site has full details about everything you'd need to know including where and how to register to save your spot.

The Zend Developer Zone has pointed out a new blog post from Yossi Leon about the upcoming release of the Zend Studio for Eclipse:

Zend Studio for Eclipse is just around the corner. Very soon we are planning to release the product after few beta cycles were we got thousands of feedbacks.

They've added their "new level of features" that they hope will make ZSfE one of the better development experiences out there - refactoring tools, code generation to make some of the basics and PHPUnit testing to make it simpler to debug your applications.

You can find out more about the software and its current release over on its page on the Zend website.