Derick Rethans has posted his wrapup of this year's PHP Vikinger event held in Skien, Norway. Here's some of what happened during the one-day event:

PHP Vikinger is over again. With about 35 attendees, I would think it was a great success. After opening the event, we figured out which topics people were interested in. After voting for the topics, we came up with a nice couple of topics.

Topics included QA/Testing, web application deployment a look at PHP's document object model functionality and some presentations on Project Zero, the new PHP lexer, eZ Components and database abstraction.

This year's Dutch PHP conference (that happened in Amsterdam) has wrapped up and several members of the PHP community (and groups) have posted their slides and some of their experiences attending. Here's a few:

• A summary from the PHP Women website
• Lorna Mitchell's slides from the conference - PHP Deployment with SVN
• A wrapup from Matthew Weier O'Phinney
• Shots from Flickr tagged for the conference
• some thoughts from Paul Wander of Ibuildings on the conference

Looks like the conference was a great success - thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Ibuildings team and Zend.

Lorna Mitchell has posted an update to the PHP Women website with a wrapup from the recent Dutch PHP Conference that happened in Amsterdam on June 14th as written up by one of their Dutch members Ghica van Emde Boas

Meet Ghica van Emde Boas. Ghica is one of our Dutch members, herself a published author. She attended the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam last weekend, and was generous enough to donate three signed copies of her own book which went to assist some of the local ladies in their learning. Here is Ghica's account of her day.

Ghica's day included Zeev Suraski's talk, Marco Tabini's presentation on mayo (oh, and application design) and well as talks from Derick Rethans, Lorna Mitchell and Stefan Priebsch (oh, and the infamous Terry Chay).

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!

The CakePHP podcast "The Show" has released their latest episode, a wrapup of the recent CakeFest 2008 conference that finished a few days ago.

Jeff Loiselle, Nate Abele, Mariano Iglesias, Peter Vanhee, Antonio De Marco, Paul Kruger, Timo Derstappen, Frederic Bollon, and Yann Le Blevac wrap up CakeFest at 1am in the hotel lobby.

You can either grab the mp3 directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and other great episodes as they come out. The Show is recorded live and listeners can ask questions of the hosts in real-time via the CakePHP channel on the Freenode IRC network.