The php[tek] conference, from the folks behind php[architect] magazine, has officially posted the schedule for their 2018 event happening in late May.

Sessions at this year's event include:

• "Evolution of PHP Security" by Eric Mann
• "Mastering REST API Tests with Codeception" by Michael Bodnarchuk
• "PHP on Kubernetes" by Chris Church
• "Building Facal Recognition Services with Javascript and AWS" by Kesha Williams
• "Greener Pastures: Infrastructure from the Group Up" by Steve Grunwell
• "As Easy as Falling Off a Log (or Writing One)" by Brent Laminack

There's tons more this year's conference has to offer, so be sure to check out this full schedule and find those topics that interest you. You can still pick up Early Bird tickets (for just the conference or the conference+training) until the end of February so be sure to get yours while you can!

As is mentioned in this new post from the Laravel News site, all of the videos from this year's Laracon US conference are now available online for free.

StreamACon has just published all of the videos from Laracon US and they are available for everyone to watch for free.

Included with all the talks is also videos from the sponsor segments so you can relive the entire conference right from your couch. Except of course mingling with everyone.

These videos include sessions like:

• Adam Wathan - Test Driven Laravel
• Chris Fidao - Servers For Hackers
• Ben Ramsey - Long Live HTTP/2
• Fabien Potencier - PHP Performance Tuning With Blackfire

...and many more. Check out the full page for the entire list of videos and sessions from this year's event.

As is mentioned in this quick post to the php[architect] site today, they've posted the schedule for this year's php[tek] conference happening in St. Louis in May.

We are excited to announce the schedule of sessions for php[tek] 2016! We had to sort through over 500 submissions to hand-pick the best 55 talks to fill out our schedule from over 30 internationally based speakers. You can see the schedule online now. Make sure and get your Early Bird Sale tickets and we look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!

There's a huge range of talks happening during this year's event including sessions like:

• "I Promise() to Teach You Asynchronous PHP" (Eric Mann)
• "WordPress Code Performance" (Stéphane Boisvert)
• "Legacy: a Retrospective" (Jessica Mauerhan)
• "Becoming a Polyglot" (Kirsten Jones)
• "Mastering the Basics of OAuth2" (Joseph Maxwell)
• "Professional Development, professional Developers" (Steve Grunwell)
• "On the Road towards PHP 7" (Josh Deckard)

Be sure to check out the full schedule for looks at these and more great topics being covered over the multi-day event. As mentioned, tickets are also already on sale so you can get yours now if there's sessions you'd like to see. You can find more information about the conference in general from the [https://tek.phparch.com](main conference site).

On the Symfony blog today there's a note that the schedule for SymfonyCon Warsaw has been published. The event is happening in Warsaw from December 10th through the 14th and will include workshops, sessions days and a "hacking" day at the end.

You’ve been waiting for it over the past few months and it is finally out: the entire schedule of SymfonyCon Warsaw 2013 is online! Here is the recap of the awesome Symfony week you’ll attend on December 10-14 in great Warsaw, Poland.

Sessions for the event include:

• Diving deep into Twig
• Simplify your code with annotations
• Moving web development from server-side to client-side with Sidecar
• Cool like Frontend Developer: Grunt, RequireJS, Bower and other Tools
• The Proxy pattern in PHP
• Mastering the Security component's authentication mechanism

They've also listed out some more details about the tutorials and the other sessions to keep an eye out for in the blog post.

As mentioned in this post to the Symfony blog, they've posted the full schedule for the Symfony Live Paris 2013 event. This year's event includes sessions like:

• The PHP Content Repository PHPCR (David Buchmann)
• Git Flow: an Agile Development Process (Xavier Hausherr)
• Understanding the heart of Component Security (Rouff Joseph)
• How to organize your templates twig? (Gregory Pineau)
• Integrate forms and validation in your PHP applications (Hugo Hamon)

You can still get your tickets for thus year's event too- they're the "last minute" tickets and will cost about 300 Euro, but there's still some left!

php|architect has posted the official schedule for their upcoming php|works conference happening September 13th and 14th in Atlanta.

Included in this year's lineup are talks like:

• Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium - Sebastian Bergmann
• Writing Maintainable Code - Jeff Moore
• Oraganizing Your PHP Projects - Paul Jones
• Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay
• Securing the PHP Environment With PhpSecInfo - Ed Finkler

There's lots more where these came from - it's a jam-packed two day conference with great topics to appeal to everyone. Check out the main conference site for more information on how to attend or just head over to the registration page and get your spot reserved today.

php|architect has posted the official schedule for their upcoming php|works conference happening September 13th and 14th in Atlanta.

Included in this year's lineup are talks like:

• Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium - Sebastian Bergmann
• Writing Maintainable Code - Jeff Moore
• Oraganizing Your PHP Projects - Paul Jones
• Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay
• Securing the PHP Environment With PhpSecInfo - Ed Finkler

There's lots more where these came from - it's a jam-packed two day conference with great topics to appeal to everyone. Check out the main conference site for more information on how to attend or just head over to the registration page and get your spot reserved today.

The Zend Framework team has officially released for download the latest version of the Framework - Preview Release 0.2.0.

The Zend Framework community has released the 0.2.0 Preview Release. This release contains many important enhancements and new features:

• New MVC implementation
• New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
• Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
• New Mysqli DB adapter
• New JSON server
• New REST client and server
• New XmlRpc client and server
• New Acl component
• New Session component
• New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
• New Registry component
• Significant improvements to many other components

You can download this latest release directly from the Zend Framework site.

The Zend Framework team has officially released for download the latest version of the Framework - Preview Release 0.2.0.

The Zend Framework community has released the 0.2.0 Preview Release. This release contains many important enhancements and new features:

• New MVC implementation
• New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
• Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
• New Mysqli DB adapter
• New JSON server
• New REST client and server
• New XmlRpc client and server
• New Acl component
• New Session component
• New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
• New Registry component
• Significant improvements to many other components

You can download this latest release directly from the Zend Framework site.

Joshua Eichorn has posted the official contest rules for the WebThumb Contest announced a short while back.

The contest runs until November 30th, and the top 5 submitters will all win upgraded WebThumb accounts. The top submitter will also win a copy of my book, Understanding AJAX.

Since previously, all that was required was a comment on this blog entry, people who've posted there need to listen up - an official submission needs to be made. Check out this page for the complete rules and all of the information you need to include in the submission email.