The SkiPHP conference has posted a reminder to all of the speakers (or those wanting to become speakers) in the PHP community - their call for papers for the 2016 edition of their event ends on September 15th, just 20 days from today!

We are committed to getting the best speakers possible! To do that, we have arranged for a generous speaker package that makes it well worth our speakers' time. If one or more of your talks are accepted, and you commit to speak at Ski PHP, we will provide the following to you: a complimentary full ticket to the conference, three nights stay at a hotel, round-trip airline ticket to Salt Lake City, speaker dinner before the conference [and more].

If you're interested in submitting for the 2016 event, head over to their Call for Papers page on the conference website and submit now! If you just want to find out more about the conference check out the main conference site. Tickets aren't on sale just yet, but keep an eye on their Twitter account for information on when sales will open.

The Ski PHP conference (happening January 17th and 18th in Salt Lake City, Utah) has posted their schedule for this year's event. Sessions at the two-day conference include:

• Migrating to Dependency Injection (Josh Adell)
• Silex: From Micro to full-stack (Dustin Whittle)
• Backbone.js and Yii (Lauren O'Mera)
• GitHub: More than Just Code (Elizabeth Naramore)
• Phing all the things (Omni Adams)
• Xhprof, a low cost PHP profiler (Mahesh Gattani)
• Virtualization for Developers (John Coggeshall)

There's lots more on the schedule than just this small sampling, so be sure to go check it out. You can also pick up your tickets for this year's event at the Early Bird price of $129 USD for both days.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an interview with another member of the PHP community, Justin Carmony, a member of the Utah Open Source Foundation/Conference.

Cal's "three questions" for Justin are around his work with Redis and the Utah open source community and conference:

• For those that don't know, can you tell us what Redis is and why did you choose it over other options?
• Can you tell us why "middle-scale" sites are different and what challenges do they uniquely face?
• As a developer how has getting involved in organizing helped you both personally and professionally?

You can listen to this latest episode through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

The Utah PHP Users Group has their latest meeting details posted for their May 2006 meeting.

The meetup will be at their usual location, the Linux Networkx offices, and will be happening on May 18th, 2006 starting at 7:00pm. The speaker this time will be John Taber of Trafmetrics.com who will be discussing business topics as they relate to PHP.

If you'd like more information on this meeting or would just like to know what the user group is all about, you can check out the meeting page on their site for complete details.

The Utah PHP Users Group has their latest meeting details posted for their May 2006 meeting.

The meetup will be at their usual location, the Linux Networkx offices, and will be happening on May 18th, 2006 starting at 7:00pm. The speaker this time will be John Taber of Trafmetrics.com who will be discussing business topics as they relate to PHP.

If you'd like more information on this meeting or would just like to know what the user group is all about, you can check out the meeting page on their site for complete details.

From Richard Miller's blog today, there's a new post with content from the Utah PHP Users Group meeting that's just passed (Feb. 2006) on the topic of custom 404 pages.

When you try to visit a web page that doesn't exist, the server usually returns a 404 error message - "Page Not Found". At the Utah PHP Users group meeting last Thursday, Mac Newbold presented on custom 404 pages. Custom 404 pages can help maintain your website branding, help you fix broken links, and help your users find something useful when they don't find what they're looking for.

Custom 404 pages are even more powerful when you combine them with PHP. I certainly didn't expect the flood of ideas that Mac presented for using custom 404 pages.

Among the suggestions of things to do with the error pages are things like: sending an email when someone gets a 404, search the site for something similar, use it as a redirect for old to new URLs, and more.

From Richard Miller's blog today, there's a new post with content from the Utah PHP Users Group meeting that's just passed (Feb. 2006) on the topic of custom 404 pages.

When you try to visit a web page that doesn't exist, the server usually returns a 404 error message - "Page Not Found". At the Utah PHP Users group meeting last Thursday, Mac Newbold presented on custom 404 pages. Custom 404 pages can help maintain your website branding, help you fix broken links, and help your users find something useful when they don't find what they're looking for.

Custom 404 pages are even more powerful when you combine them with PHP. I certainly didn't expect the flood of ideas that Mac presented for using custom 404 pages.

Among the suggestions of things to do with the error pages are things like: sending an email when someone gets a 404, search the site for something similar, use it as a redirect for old to new URLs, and more.

The Utah PHP Users Group has posted a new announcement already about their March meeting to be held on the 16th.

This time, the topic is still a bit up in the air and they request that those attening vote on one of two - either "Ajax tools in Eclipse" or "postgresql + stored procedures" - but from Ray Hunter. The meeting will be in the usual place, the Linux Networx offices, and will get going around 7pm.

For more details on the group and this meeting, check out their website.

The Utah PHP Users Group has posted a new announcement already about their March meeting to be held on the 16th.

This time, the topic is still a bit up in the air and they request that those attening vote on one of two - either "Ajax tools in Eclipse" or "postgresql + stored procedures" - but from Ray Hunter. The meeting will be in the usual place, the Linux Networx offices, and will get going around 7pm.

For more details on the group and this meeting, check out their website.