The first annual PHP North West conference happened this past Saturday (Nov 22, 2008) and was a great success. Over 150 attendees made it for the day long event, large groups of which came to the social events as well. Here's some of the slides and wrapups posted by speakers and attendees alike:

Blog Posts

• Lorna Mitchell's PHPNW Post-match Analysis
• Stefan Koopmanschap's look back
• David Goodwin's summary of the event
• Rob Allen's look at the conference

Slides

• The Power of Refactoring by Stefan Koopmanschap

The International PHP Conference for 2008 happened in Mainz, Germany and had speakers on a wide range of topics. Here's just a few of the slides that have been posted so far:

Slides:

• David Parra - On Sharding Architectures
• Sebastian Bergmann - Map, Filter, Reduce - In the Small and in the Cloud, Of Lambda Functions, Closures, and Traits
• Pierre Joye/Garrett Serack - Developing PHP Internals on Windows
• Thorsten Rinne - Quality in PHP projects beyond Unittests
• Ulf Wendel - Mysqlnd Async (Sharding)
• Stefan Koopmanschap - The Power of Refactoring
• Max Horvath - Quality Assurance in PHP Projects - In-Depth Best-Practises (with Wojciech Duda), Making Selenium Test Writing easier using a DSL
• Thomas Weinert - Deliver Files with PHP, Optimizing Your Frontend Performance
• Lars Jankowfsky - Theory and practice - migrating your legacy code into our modern test driven development world
• Tobias Schlitt - Version Control with SVN, Debugging with XDebug, Database abstraction with eZ Components

Blog Posts:

• Tobias Schlitt - IPC 2008 wrapup and slides
• a wrapup from the Ibuildings blog

Keep an eye out here for more slides and blog posts as they're made...

Chris Jones has pointed out a video of a recent presentation at the Singapore PHP User Group Meeting done by Blair Layton (of Oracle Asia Pacific) on the OCI8 extension and using it to connect PHP.

While most PHP developers start off on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack there maybe a need to investigate OPAL (Oracle, PHP, Apache, Linux). This talk will discuss what Oracle offers PHP developers including operating system, database, middleware and tools support. You will find out how to take advantage of specific features in Oracle Database 11g that assist PHP developers such as Database Resident Connection Pooling with code samples and demos. An example architecture from a USA web company of a highly scalable PHP application that uses Oracle database will also be discussed.

His slides are also available for download - Set 1, Set 2 and you can watch the full video here.

OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention wraps up today but some of the PHPers out there have already made some blog posts and have shared their slides from the event. Here's the list so far:

• Luke Welling - SNAP - PHP Taint Tool
• Ed Finkler - Securing the PHP Environment with PHPSecInfo
• Sebastian Bergmann - Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
• Laura Thomson - Write Beautiful Code
• Wez Furlong - Hot Chocolate: You got cocoa in my PHP
• Theo Schlossnagle - Full-stack Introspection Crash Course
• Ben Ramsey - Give Your Site a Boot With Memcache, OSCON 2008: Day One
• Mike Naberezny - Integration Testing PHP Applications & Supervisor as a Platform
• John Coggeshall - Top 10 Scalability Mistakes
• Andrei Zmievsky - intl me this, intl me that
• Chris Shiflett - OSCON Wrapup
• Jan Lehnardt - OSCON 2008 (wrapup)

Keep an eye out here for more slides and blog posts as they come out.

Scott MacVicar shares a helpful hint for the PHP speakers out there - how to apply syntax highlighting to the code in your slides.

I use Apple's Keynote for doing my presentations and naturally these include some bits of code that need highlighting so that it's easier to read. [...] In the end I used GESHI which is a highlight library written in PHP that supports the syntax highlighting of around 50 different programming and scripting languages.

He's provided his sample implementation to help you get up and running. You'll need to download and install GESHI to get it working though. Here's an example of the output.

On the PHP London conference website (from the recently passed PHP London 2008) has posted the first of many mp3s of the session that happened there. This first one comes from Ivo Jansch.

His presentation is titled Enterprise PHP Development and looks at things like whether or not PHP is "enterprise ready", how PHP's role in the online world has changed and some steps to take to be sure your application is ready to serve your enterprise.

The slides can be found here and the mp3 of the presentation is here.

Hasin Hayder shares a method for "hacking" the Slideshare.net service to be able to download whatever slideshow you'd like:

I just spent some time today analyzing the HTTP requests made by the player available in slideshare using LiveHTTPHeader extension and found a way to download any presentation you want! There are many slides available in slideshare where you see that "Download not available" - But as long you have some knowledge on web-scrapping, that doesn't matter at all.

He includes the code that you can point at a slideshow's URL and let run. It works through each of the pages of the presentation and pulls out the URL of it and echoes it back out.

Cal Evans has made a new post to the Zend Developer Zone gathering together all the slides he could find from the recent Zend/PHP Conference & Expo (2007):

Most of these have already been posted on the speakers blogs. However, I thought it would be a good idea to gang them all together on one post for those who are looking for them. I've also linked to the blog posts of any speakers who blogged about ZendCon as well. Watch this page for updates, as new slides come in, I'll update the page.

If you were a speaker at the conference and you don't see your slides linked, send Cal at note at cal [at] this domain with your info.