Cal Evans has posted his final wrapup from this year's php|works conference up in Toronto on the Zend Developer Zone today.

This last look at the conference includes mentions of:

• Joe Stagner's keynote talk,
• Cal presenting his talk - "Debugging PHP without cursing...mostly"
• Wez Furlong's PDO talk
• Derick Rethans' and his "Ranting Hour"
• The panel discussion on the Zend PHP 5 Certification
• PHPers winning at trivia
• Accordian cover solos
• John Coggeshall's "Apps Made Easy on Zend Framework" talk

Check out the full post for the rest of the story (especially the accordion music selections!)

Cal Evans has posted his final wrapup from this year's php|works conference up in Toronto on the Zend Developer Zone today.

This last look at the conference includes mentions of:

• Joe Stagner's keynote talk,
• Cal presenting his talk - "Debugging PHP without cursing...mostly"
• Wez Furlong's PDO talk
• Derick Rethans' and his "Ranting Hour"
• The panel discussion on the Zend PHP 5 Certification
• PHPers winning at trivia
• Accordian cover solos
• John Coggeshall's "Apps Made Easy on Zend Framework" talk

Check out the full post for the rest of the story (especially the accordion music selections!)

Jacob Santos is back again today with this new blog post - his look at the world of PHP compilers and some of his theories (and rants) on the subject.

I know very little of compiler and interpreter theory and have never (yet) created a working implementation of a compiler or interpreter. What you're about to read or (most likely) skip over is a Head-in-Ass post and feel free to flame me on parts where I'm wrong, which will be most places. Do realize that this is one end user’s opinion of the matter and any perceived insult upon any author(s) is not intended and please do not take it as such.

Jacob talks about run-time classes, class optimization, what he "really wants" out of a compiler, namespace functionality, a "phpc" extension, and his opinions on the Zend Engine, other web technologies, and the future of PHP.

Jacob Santos is back again today with this new blog post - his look at the world of PHP compilers and some of his theories (and rants) on the subject.

I know very little of compiler and interpreter theory and have never (yet) created a working implementation of a compiler or interpreter. What you're about to read or (most likely) skip over is a Head-in-Ass post and feel free to flame me on parts where I'm wrong, which will be most places. Do realize that this is one end user’s opinion of the matter and any perceived insult upon any author(s) is not intended and please do not take it as such.

Jacob talks about run-time classes, class optimization, what he "really wants" out of a compiler, namespace functionality, a "phpc" extension, and his opinions on the Zend Engine, other web technologies, and the future of PHP.

Derick Rethans has this new note on his blog about the fact that he will be presenting at the php|tek conference in Orlando this coming April (26th-28th).

From April 26th to 28th I will presenting at php|tek in Orlando. On this third "cruise" I will hold three sessions. In the first talk I will be talking about rapid application developing, using examples from the eZ components. On the second day I'm trying something new: "Derick's Ranting Hour". During this hour I will be listening to the ranting of users about all things they don't like in PHP. If there are not enough people complaining than I will give a shot at it myself :). On the third and last day I will be talking about PHP's improved date and time handling.

You can get more details on other speakers and the wheres and whens of the conference from it page on the php|architect site...

Derick Rethans has this new note on his blog about the fact that he will be presenting at the php|tek conference in Orlando this coming April (26th-28th).

From April 26th to 28th I will presenting at php|tek in Orlando. On this third "cruise" I will hold three sessions. In the first talk I will be talking about rapid application developing, using examples from the eZ components. On the second day I'm trying something new: "Derick's Ranting Hour". During this hour I will be listening to the ranting of users about all things they don't like in PHP. If there are not enough people complaining than I will give a shot at it myself :). On the third and last day I will be talking about PHP's improved date and time handling.

You can get more details on other speakers and the wheres and whens of the conference from it page on the php|architect site...