On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest in their DPC Radio series of podcasts as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference. In this new episode they share Lorna Mitchell's talk "Implementing OAuth".

With Twitter moving its API to OAuth the idea of using tokens rather than passwords for authentication went mainstream. Many explanations of OAuth make it seem complicated whereas in reality the "OAuth Dance" is a series of simple steps executed in sequence. This talk covers consuming and providing OAuth services, includes implementation examples, and is recommended for all technical leads, architects, and integration specialists.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can follow along with the presentation in her slides.

Rafael Dohms has a new post to his blog about some of the lessons he learned attending this year's PHP Benelux conference both from the perspective of attending the conference and having been at several conferences around the world.

After hearing about how great PHP Benelux Conferences were I finally made it over to Belgium to check it out, and i was impressed. To catch you up on the new, I moved to Amsterdam last december and thus had the chance of attending the conference which is now 2 hours away on a train ride. I could not expect less of a wonderful conference when names like Michelangelo van Dam are involved and this was no exception.

Among his suggestions, there's things like:

• Value your sponsors
• Value your attendees
• Make your attendees pay
• Value the organizers and your volunteers

...and one of the most important ones: "Have Fun!" If you're not following this piece of advice, you're probably doing it wrong.

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.

In this recent post to his blog Ian Barber offers up some hints on presenting at conferences (or other events really) based on some of his experiences at this year's PHP Benelux Conference that just wrapped up in Belgium.

Some of the conversations I had during the weekend were around technical presenting at conferences and usergroups, so I thought I'd collect a handful of the tips that were discussed into a post, and use a few of my favourite speakers at the event to illustrate them.

He has it broken up by speaker, first David Zülke, Rowan Merewood and David Coallier, each with their own highlights of what they did well in their presentations. The list includes:

• Make concepts concrete with examples and demos
• Care About The Visuals
• Project Confidence
• Engage The Audience

Ian provides summaries for each of the points, describing what the speaker did to accomplish it and how it could be put into practice by other presenters.

The latest episode of the "/dev/hell" podcast has been released - Episode 4: "The Cool Kids Club".

Our fourth episode is all ready for your listening pleasure. In this exciting episode we focus on "The Conference Experience" and discuss why programming conferences are so important to developers. Chris talks about why CodeMash was so awesome and the awesome talks full of awesomeness that he attended. Ed talks about his own experiences with speaking and attending conferences, complete with a total derail by Chris on why a certain conference rubbed him the wrong way. Oh yeah, you also find out our opinions on what constitutes a "well-written PHP application". I'm sure you will be surprised by our answers.

You can either listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly.

The WebDev Radio podcast has released their latest episode today - an interview with Jeff Carouth (@jcarouth) from last year's ZendCon conference:

I chatted with Jeff Carouth about his day to day worklife as a PHP guy (among other things) at Texas A and M. Learn the A and M mascot name, Jeff's favorite design pattern, and more.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly.

As mentioned by the PHPNW twitter account, the videos for almost all of the sessions in this year's PHP North West conference have been posted.

Sessions so far include:

• Ian Barber's keynote How to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
• Sebastian Bergmann's PHP Tester's Toolbox
• Scott MacVicar's Scaling Your Development Team
• Alistair Stead's Varnish your PHP application, make it fly!
• Jacopo Romei's Many To Many - No Man Is An Island
• Volker Dusch's Stop Wasting Time By Applying Clean Code Principles

You can find the full list in this link bundle complete with author bios, links to the videos and a summary of each session.

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!

Michelangelo van Dam has a new post to his blog today about the Microsoft Hackathon happening at this year's PHPBenelux conference with reps from Microsoft in attendance.

Even if you have no knowledge of any of Microsoft's PHP solutions you're more then happy to join us and see how you can build applications so they can be distributed with the Microsoft IIS infrastructures.

Whatever your reason, you can find out more about the conference and the hackathon over on the PHPBenelux website and pick up your tickets now (300 Euro for the full event, just 160 Euro for a partial ticket).

The Dutch PHP Conference has Call for Papers has also been opened!

We're back! And we are glad to announce that we'll be organising another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, which will be held in Amsterdam from 7th to 9th June 2012. Thursday 7th will be the tutorial day and June 8th and 9th will be the main conference days. Ticket sales will start on February 15th. [...] We're looking for high-quality, technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audience inspired

The Call for Papers is open until January 31st, so get those talk ideas in soon. In addition to the normal DPC conference, they're also holding the Dutch Mobile Conference at the same time, a 3-day conference about technologies used for mobile websites and mobile web application development.