The 7PHP.com site has posted another in its series of spotlights on people and happenings in the PHP community. In this latest edition he talks with Cal Evans about the latest Day Camp 4 Developers evening happening Friday, September 18th: "Debugging Beyond var_dump()".

Day Camp 4 Developers is a virtual ‘mini’ PHP conference. Meaning you can watch in realtime 5 awesome speakers, talking about some cool quality stuffs, while you are comfortably seated on your sofa with your snacks and beverages. [...] It’s a new week on our PHP Calendar, specially in our Virtual PHP calendar – it’s THE week for DC4D which will be held on this upcoming Friday 18th Sept 2015 – see it all here, click! One very important thing to know, DC4D is heartily brought forward by our PHP Icon – the one and only Mr Cal Evans, together with his wife, The Lovely & Talented Kathy.

Cal answers questions about the event including:

• How it all started
• How he finds the speakers for the theme for each event
• Some of the things he's learned from putting on the event

The interview also includes a bonus Q&A with one of the speakers, Joshua Thijssen. They talk about Joshua's motivation behind the talk, one things that people will learn from it and what he sees as the benefit of a live presentation vs recorded.

The Day Camp 4 Developers online "conference" has officially announced their latest event, "Debugging Beyond var_dump()", happening Friday September 18th from 9am through 3pm (CST). This time around they're putting it on with the help of the fine folks at php[architect] too.

This latest edition of the excellent event features several well known speakers talking about debugging tips and sharing tools that can make you a more effective developer:

• "PHP Profiling, an Introduction" (Fabien Potencier)
• "Debugging: Past, Present and Future" (Derick Rethans)
• "Characterization Testing for Legacy Applications" (Paul M. Jones)
• "Modern Tools for API Debugging and Testing" (Neil Mansilla)
• "Don't Reboot, Debug!" (Joshua Thijssen)

Much like it's siblings, the Day Camp 4 Developers event is completely virtual and is held via a webcast. Tickets will soon be sale and, compared to the usual cost of a conference ticket, are quite cheap. There's even group tickets available if you'd like to hold a "watch party" in your office.

Check out the Day Camp 4 Developers site for more information or to pick up your tickets!