The Dev/Hell podcast (as hosted by two PHP community members, Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler) has posted their latest episode - Episode 13: #tek12 or Something. I Don't Know. (This episode was recorded live at this year's php|tek conference.)

This episode was recorded at the tek12 uncon in front of a live studio audience. We talk about pair programming, what we’d recommend to folks who want to start programming, the PHP-FIG & PSRs, and our favorite events from tek12. Also Chris punched Ed a couple times. It hurt. Video hosting for this episode is provided by WonderNetwork, who generate some really cool ping data. This was lots of fun, and we want to thank all the folks who came out and participated.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways - using the in-page audio player, downloading the mp3, subscribing to their feed or grabbing the video of the live recording.

This year's php|tek 2012 conference has just wrapped up - some great sessions were presented, contributions were made at the hackathon and patches gathered by all.

If you attended this year's event, please be sure to give the speakers some feedback (on Joind.in) and, if you weren't able to, check out the "Slides" section for the presentations.

Topics at this year's event included:

• Easing in to HTML5 and CSS3 (Brian Moon)
• Web Security and You (Eli White)
• (Re)discovering the SPL (Joshua Thijssen)
• Slim Your PHP, Fatten Your JS (Ed Finkler)

As announced on the php|architect site, the official schedule for this year's php|tek event has been released.

tek '12 is coming to Chicago May 22nd – 25th, 2012. Yes, there is going to be an uncon that goes till all hours of the morning. Yes, there is going to be a hackathon packed with programmers and cool projects. Of course there are going to be some off-the-hook evening activities that people will talk about for years to come.

This year's event includes sessions about:

• creating and using PHP components
• application testing
• HTML5 & Javascript
• Continuous deployment
• Puppet
• using the SPL
• Gearman

Tickets are already on sale for this year's event and, if you get in before the end of February, you can get the Early Bird pricing of $200 USD off the cost of a main conference-only ticket and $300 USD off the price of a full conference ticket.

php|architect, the group behind the yearly php|tek conference has posted this year's official schedule. Sessions in this year's event include:

• Developer Testing 201, When to Mock and When to Integrate (Laura Beth Denker)
• API Development (Rob Richards)
• The MicroPHP Manifesto (Ed Finkler)
• Web Security and You (Elliot White)
• Decoupled Library Packages for PHP 5.4
• Clojure for PHP Developers (Ian Barber)

Tickets are now on sale - you can find out more on the sales page for the event.

As the conference season for next year gets closer, several conferences have opened their Call for Papers. A few of them have deadlines coming up soon, so don't forget the following important dates if you'd like to submit!

• php|tek 2012 - ends December 31st, 2011 (tomorrow!)
• Dutch PHP Conference - ends January 31st, 2012
• phpDay Italy - ends February 28th, 2012

Be sure to submit while there's still time! Thanks to Thijs Feryn for the reminder!

php|architect has officially announced the sale of some of the first tickets you can get for this year's php|tek event - the Charter tickets available until the schedule for this year's conference is released.

As it is customary, while we work on receiving proposals, rating them, and coming up with a final schedule for php|tek 2012, we are offering "Charter tickets" at 50% off the full price for a "Full Experience" ticket that includes access to both the tutorial day and the main conference - that's four days of learning, networking, and just plain fun for the lowest price we'll ever offer, period.

The Charter tickets are $750 USD this year and give you full access to both the tutorial day and full conference days for the rest of the week. There's a limited supply of these pre-schedule tickets, so be sure you pick up yours now to get in on the deal.

php|architect has officially announced their php|tek conference for 2012 and have opened their Call for Papers:

The simple answer is to the question "What topics are you looking for" is: anything that helps inspire PHP developers to do their jobs better, more easily, and more efficiently. [...] Most importantly, we do not necessarily look for talks that are about PHP. Some of the most successful presentations over the years have been on products built on PHP (like frameworks) and on technologies that are tangential to it (e.g.: Apache, JavaScript, databases, and so on).

The deadline to submit is December 31st for the two types of sessions - tutorials (3 or 6 hours long) and regular talks (50 minutes). You can manage your proposals via the php|architect website.