Michael Girouard has a new post (complete with slides about the PHP and Ajax presentation he gave at a recent New York PHP user group meeting, "Ajax for PHP Developers".

It felt a little strange presenting a JavaScript topic to a bunch of PHP developers, but I made it come back to PHP by demonstrating a the latest Panda PHP package which is only in incubation at the moment.

You can check out the slides on Slideshare and download the code from his site.

This year's Dutch PHP Conference has come to a close and several members of the community have posted their own wrapups and slides from the event. Here's some of them:

• Stefan Priebsch's slides - PHP 5.3 and PHP 6 - A Look Ahead
• Ivo Jansch's wrapaup
• Helgi's coverage of each day - Day 1
• Lorna Mitchell's experience giving her talk there at the conference and her first day summary
• Sebastian Bergmann's slides - New Features in PHPUnit 3.3, Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

If you weren't able to attend, be sure to check out some of the pictures from the conference over on Flickr (and if you were there, be sure to tag your own pictures with "dpc08").

The DC PHP Conference for 2008 has just wrapped up and many of the speakers have already been posted their slides. Here's the list so far:

• Ben Ramsey - Distribution and Publication with Atom Web Services, Giv You Site a Boost with Memcache
• Mike Lively - Advanced PHP Unit Testing, Automated Unit Testing - Getting Started
• Tony Bibbs - Fed Up of the Framework Hype?, SOAP_Toolkit - Constact-First and Code-First Web Services for PHP
• an overview from Christopher Jones

Keep an eye on this post for more updates as other presenters post their slides and summaries of the event!

If you weren't able to make it to yesterday's webinar from Zend and the Dojo group about their partnership, Matthew Weier O'Phinney is ready to hook you up with all of the details they presented.

We had our Zend Framework/Dojo integration QA today. Aside from some connectivity issues at the beginning of the presentation, things went smoothly, and there were some good questions.

He's made the slides both available for download directly and as a slideshow on Slideshare. He doesn't mention when the recording of the webinar will be out, but it shouldn't be too far off.

From the GNUCitizen blog, there's a new post about a recent meeting (of the OWASP London Chapter) where several presentations were given on methods for exploiting PHP applications. The three talks given were:

• Rodrigo Marcos - hacking PHP sockets for fun and profit
• David Kierznowski - exploitation techniques using real world examples
• Colin Watson - talk about security badges

There's links to the slides for one the formal presentations, the exploitation techniques - two sets: the remote exploit examples and local exploit examples.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the slides from two presentations that Wil Sinclair (of the Zend Framework team) has given at two different conferences lately - SD West and a San Francisco Meetup.

Wil Sinclair has been a busy man of late. In addition to getting ready for the 1.5 release of Zend Framework and recording a podcast with me, he has taken the time to present 2 different presentations on Zend Framework.

The presentation from SD West was titled Web 2.0: Building Rich Internet Applications with PHP and the one presented to the Meetup group, Zend Framework 1.5 Latest Features

Congratulations to John Coggeshall on having his Zend_Service_Slideshare component accepted into the Zend Framework incubator.

What's the component? If you haven't seen it before, Slideshare.net is an excellent site for hosting various Powerpoint slide shows for public consumption (think YouTube for slide shows). I wrote the component during the my site redesign to host my various slide shows which can be found in the resources section.

If you'd like to get your hands on it and play with it before the official release, you can always grab it from the Subversion repository for the ZF project.

Matthew Weir O'Phinney has posted the slides from a New York PHP User Group meeting that Mark de Visser (of Zend) and he spoke at:

Mark presented information on Zend's development stack and toolset (which I entirely missed, as I was still in transit), and I came in to give an overview of Zend Framework.

Matthew posted the slides right to his blog. They're in a browser-based slideshow system that will launch wen you double-click on the index file.

Joshua Eichorn points out the slides that he worked up for the benefits of upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5 for your applications:

Yesterday at azPhp I gave a short presentation about the benefits of upgrading to PHP 5. The slides for cool things in php 5 are available. If you goto the single page view you can see the notes that go with the presentation, there are article links for most items giving more details.

The talk is broken up into sections - better object oriented support, better xml handling, simpler web service functionality, database libraries, user code that can work more like the core constructs and, best of all, that it's faster.

For those that weren't able to make it to Adobe's webcast for combining Flex and PHP for web developers, the host Mike Potter has posted the slides for your review.

The session is targeted at PHP developers starting out with Flex. I'll show examples of how to connect to a PHP datasource using three different methods - REST web service, JSON and AMFPHP. I'll discuss the advantages and disadvantages to using each of them, and then show you how to extend your in browser application to the desktop using Adobe AIR.

You can find the slides here [pdf]. Also, if you want the full experience of the webcast and not just the slides, you can also sign up for the other session on July 17th.