For those that weren't able to attend this year's CakeFest (2008), you might want to check out Felix Geisendorfer's summary of the event that happened in early February down in Orlando, Florida - complete with lots of pictures.

Since I'm not much of a story teller I'll make this a picture post (my hosting company should really re-think that unlimited bandwidth package, haha).

He has shots of several of the attendees (including names known to most of the CakePHP community), the location for the conference, shots of the "off time" during the conference and some alligator kissing.

I just want to say thank you to all of the folks who came and especially those who have been involved with the logistics of all of this. It was a pleasure to meet everybody and I'm looking forward to the next CakeFest in Argentina.

As mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, the CakePHP group has officially announced this year's CakeFest Conference being held in Orlando, Florida.

With the recent launch of CakePHP 1.2 beta, the Cake world is now more active than ever. What better way to keep up with the latest than joining CakePHP's core team and prominent developers in three exciting days of CakePHP programming talks.

You can get full details about three day event from the conference page including a way to submit your talk proposal (it ends January 21st, 2008 so hurry!) and information on the area and a link to signup.

For those in the Jacksonville, Florida area, Codewalkers has a something that might interest you - the forming of a new PHP user group for the area.

For those of you in Jacksonville, Florida (like me) there is a new PHP user group. You can find it at www.JaxPHP.org. Currently the domain just redirects to the Meetup.com page. I plan to try and go to these meetings and help in anyway I can. If you are in the Jacksonville area, sign up!

Their next meeting is happening in 31 days (the last one just happened on the 3rd, the upcoming one, on September 7th), but you can RSVP now to attend the next meeting. The group already has several members, so if you're interested, sign up today!