For those that weren't able to make it to the Sunshine PHP Conference this year, organizer Adam Culp has posted a quick recap of the event and some of the good, bad (and unfortunately ugly) that happened during the event.

SunshinePHP 2016 was an awesome event! Not only were we sold out of tickets for the 4th year in a row, but the attendee list was truly amazing! Each year more and more companies in South Florida send most if not all of their PHP developers to the conference. This year we saw at least 20 companies in South Florida send 5 or more of their developers, and around 8 of those sent around 10. We love seeing our work take hold, and with this many companies embracing the conference it is obvious we are doing a good job. Thanks to all for participating.

He talks some about the sponsors for this year's event and thanks them for their support. He also mentions some of the keynotes, talks and other activities that happened during the few days and, while there was some complaints about the event attendees overall enjoyed the conference.

The Sunshine PHP Conference (happening in February 2016 in Miami, Florida) has officially announced their speaker list for their upcoming event on the main conference website.

Speakers and topics for this year's event (well, the 2016 one) include:

• Adam Wathan: "Applying the 4 Rules of Simple Design"
• Amanda Folson: "Give Me a REST!"
• Chris Russell: "The Pattern to Design Patterns"
• Dave Stokes: "MySQL's JSON Data Type"
• Eli White: "Web Security and You"
• Gemma Anible: "Navigating Your Git Repository"
• Jessica Mauerhan: "Behat: Beyond the Basics"

...and much more. Check out the speakers page for more information about the who and what of this great conference. They've also already opened registration so if you want to pick up tickets, head over to the Registration page and get yours today. Early bird tickets are available until December 15th and are only $240 USD each.

The 2016 edition of the Sunshine PHP conference, happening in Miami, Florida between February 4th and 6th, has officially opened their Call for Papers for their upcoming event.

We’re pleased to announce our conference, SunshinePHP is one of the best PHP conferences where community members from around the world come together to learn and share information about the latest trends and technologies in professional PHP development.

The speaker package for their 2016 event includes an all-access pass to the conference itself, airfare/travel to the event, two hotel nights and lunch provided on regular conference days. They're accepting submissions until midnight (EST) on September 30th and highly advise submitting more than one session idea. They also have a few suggested topics they'd like to see at this year's event including:

• Virtualization and environments
• Development principles
• User Experience/Usability
• Continuous Integration
• Debugging
• Teamwork and/or Developer Management
• Professional development

It may be a PHP-centric conference but they're looking for a wide range of other topics to round it out too. If you have an idea for a session you'd like to present, be sure to submit as soon as possible!