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"

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"

Cal Evans is attending this year's php/db|works conference up in Toronto and has reported back with his summary of the first day of the conference - "Tutorial Day".

Day One at php|works was dedicated to tutorials. Paul Reinheimer did a 6 hour crash course for those who wanted to take the Zend Certification Test here at the conference. I talked with a three attendees at the Crash Course to get their opinion on how it was going. Cairan Walsh, who is not currently Zend Certified found the course interested although he thought maybe it was a bit too basic.

Cal notes that just about everyone that attended the "Crash Course" was pleased with the contents/teacher/etc. He also mentions his visits to the "Advanced XML and Web Services" and "Extending PHP" tutorials.

Cal Evans is attending this year's php/db|works conference up in Toronto and has reported back with his summary of the first day of the conference - "Tutorial Day".

Day One at php|works was dedicated to tutorials. Paul Reinheimer did a 6 hour crash course for those who wanted to take the Zend Certification Test here at the conference. I talked with a three attendees at the Crash Course to get their opinion on how it was going. Cairan Walsh, who is not currently Zend Certified found the course interested although he thought maybe it was a bit too basic.

Cal notes that just about everyone that attended the "Crash Course" was pleased with the contents/teacher/etc. He also mentions his visits to the "Advanced XML and Web Services" and "Extending PHP" tutorials.

Reporting with his own coverage in the trenches of Oregon, Cal Evans has posted Day One of his coverage of this year's OSCON, with a PHP slant (of course) on Zend's Developer Zone.

He mentions this year's OSCAMP and its facilitator, Brandon Sanders. Since today and tomorrow are tutorial days, the PHP content was light with only the one tutorial being held by Chris Shiflett covering "Power PHP Testing".

Stay tuned for more from this year's conference and more of Cal's great coverage and commentary.

Reporting with his own coverage in the trenches of Oregon, Cal Evans has posted Day One of his coverage of this year's OSCON, with a PHP slant (of course) on Zend's Developer Zone.

He mentions this year's OSCAMP and its facilitator, Brandon Sanders. Since today and tomorrow are tutorial days, the PHP content was light with only the one tutorial being held by Chris Shiflett covering "Power PHP Testing".

Stay tuned for more from this year's conference and more of Cal's great coverage and commentary.