The php[architect] site has released the official announcement of the php[tek] 2017 conference schedule being released:

Our conference chairs announced the lineup of speakers and talks for php[tek] 2017. It’s a great lineup, and you don’t have to just take our word for it. It’s shaping up to be a conference you don’t want to miss which takes place over 5 days May in Atlanta. Head over to the php[tek] site to see the schedule and register.

They've also included a list of just a few of the talks that will be presented at this year's event including:

• Demystifying Object-Oriented Programming with Alena Holligan
• *MySQL-Awesome Features You’re Probably Missing8 with Liam Wiltshire
• Learning About Machine Learning with Joel Lord

You can view the full schedule for the conference, happening May 24th through 28th in Atlanta, Georgia, on the main conference site and pick up your tickets too.

For those that weren't able to attend this year's PHP South Coast conference (in Portsmouth, UK) Matthew Setter has posted a wrap up of some of his experiences there and what the conference was like.

I’m on the train heading to Stansted airport, after what I can only describe as a brilliant weekend in Portsmouth, attending the inaugural PHP South Coast, conference. I’ve not been to Portsmouth for 10 years, but the wait was well worth it.

He talks about the venue where the conference was held and some of the talks that were given during the day long event. There were two tracks so, unfortunately, he wasn't able to attend all of the talks but he does provide summaries for those he was able to attend. He also spotlights the opening keynote from Cal Evans about the importance of community and how it relates to your career. He ends the post talking about something he found quite valuable: meeting people, both those he knew from online and others just attending the event.

Kathy Ried has posted about some of her experience (including being a speaker) at this year's BarCampMelbourne 2008:

BarCampMelbourne2008 was, simply put, AWESOME! BarCampMelbourne2008 was held at Thoughtworks [wikipedia] at 155 Queen Street, Melbourne on 23 Feb 08, and had approximately 60 in attendance.

She talks not only about the conference itself (the male vs female attendance, the presence of Apple laptops and the age of attendees) as well as her talk on the advancement of practices at her workplace and other talks like an intro to APhpLix and how to use PHP Under Control.

For those that weren't able to make it to this year's PHP Quebec conference, Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone has posted daily summaries to get you caught up.

The first day's post covers the usual - what the conference is like, the meeting area, some of the people he met up with, and the sessions he attended (including a mention of Rob Richards' "SOA: Beyond the Hype" talk.

The second day's post is jammed with more information about the conference, including all of the great talks he attended, including:

• Mike Potter's "Rich Internet application development with Flex"
• John Coggeshall's "Top PECL Picks"
• Graham Charters' "Service Component Architecture"

For those that weren't able to make it to this year's PHP Quebec conference, Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone has posted daily summaries to get you caught up.

The first day's post covers the usual - what the conference is like, the meeting area, some of the people he met up with, and the sessions he attended (including a mention of Rob Richards' "SOA: Beyond the Hype" talk.

The second day's post is jammed with more information about the conference, including all of the great talks he attended, including:

• Mike Potter's "Rich Internet application development with Flex"
• John Coggeshall's "Top PECL Picks"
• Graham Charters' "Service Component Architecture"

Those that didn't get a chance to check out this year's PHP UK Conference can get a little taste of what it was like from Rob Allen's perspective in his latest blog post today.

Included in the happenings he mentions were the talk that Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone gave on mashups, Kevin Henney's look at Object Orientation, and Rasmus Lerdorf's look at PHP5 performance/security. He also mentions meeting up with Dagfinn Reiersol (author of PHP in Action) to "talk shop" a bit about writing books.

You can check out all of the details about the conference that was over on their website including summaries of the talks that were given during this jam-packed one day event.

Those that didn't get a chance to check out this year's PHP UK Conference can get a little taste of what it was like from Rob Allen's perspective in his latest blog post today.

Included in the happenings he mentions were the talk that Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone gave on mashups, Kevin Henney's look at Object Orientation, and Rasmus Lerdorf's look at PHP5 performance/security. He also mentions meeting up with Dagfinn Reiersol (author of PHP in Action) to "talk shop" a bit about writing books.

You can check out all of the details about the conference that was over on their website including summaries of the talks that were given during this jam-packed one day event.

As posted here by Marc Gear and here by Joshua Eichorn, the PHPLondon user group has announced their PHPLondon Conference 2007.

After the success of 2006 the PHP London user group are staging the UK's second dedicated PHP conference on Friday, 23 February 2007.

The conference will be a low-cost event, costing £50 for the day. There is a 230 person limit on the number of delegates we can support, and demand is expected to be high, so make sure you register early. If you'd like to register, check out the conference's main page and enter your information today.

The conference will be happening over at the Keyworth Centre and speakers attending include Cal Evans (of Zend's Developer Zone), Simon Laws (of IBM) and Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP).