Bradley Holt has posted a reminder that the Call for Papers for this year's Boston PHP Northeast Conference is closing soon!

The Boston PHP Northeast Conference’s Call for Papers will be closing on Thursday, April 12th so be sure to get your talk submissions in before then! The conference will be taking place on Saturday, August 11th and Sunday, August 12th at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA and will be focused around four tracks: Core PHP, Web Development, Training and User Experience (UX)

You can submit your ideas here with a summary of the session, the skill level, duration and any additional remarks for the organizers. For more details you can check out these two events on the Boston PHP user group's Meetup page.

The Boston PHP User Group will be having their next meeting tonight (the 15th) at 7pm at the Microsoft N.E.R.D Center in Cambridge. The featured speaker for the evening is Chris Shiflett, a well-known member of the PHP community. He'll be speaking on "Security-Centered Design: Exploring the Impact of Human Behavior".

Join Boston PHP and O’Reilly Author Chris Shiflett as we take you through a fascinating talk on the human behavior and social aspect of security. We’ll explore topics such as change blindness and ambient signifiers, and we’ll show some real-world examples that demonstrate the profound impact human behavior can have on security. If your a designer, developer, human interaction designer, you won’t want to miss this talk.

So far there's over 150 marked as attending - if you plan on trying to make it tonight, be sure you RSVP so they know how many to expect.