The Zend Developer Zone has posted their seventeenth episode in the ZendCon Sessions podcast series today. This time it's Jay Pipes' MySQL-centric talk The Legend of Drunken Query Master.

The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself. In this series we will be releasing regular sessions from ZendCon 2008 as we lead up to this year's ZendCon.

You can check out his slides as you listen to the episode either through the in-page player, downloading the mp3 directly or subscribing to the podcast's feed.

php|architect has officially announced the keynote speakers for this year's php|works conference - Kevin Dangoor (founder of the TurboGears) and Jay Pipes (staff engineer on Sun's Drizzle project).

We are excited to announce the keynote speakers for this year's php|works and PyWorks conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in November. [...] Both Jay and Kevin are dynamic, interesting speakers and we are honored to be hosting them at this year's php|works/PyWorks conference.

Kevin will be giving a talk growth in an open source community and Jay will give a talk called "Confessions of a Serial Coder". You can find more information on the conference (including how to reserve your spot) on the main conference website.