• 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.

We are happy and proud to announce the speaker line-up for the 2012 edition of the PHPBenelux Conference. We already released our tutorials on November 16th, but this is the real deal. Speaker bio's, talk abstracts and schedule will be added later. Please note that this list is subject to change.

Sessions for this year's event include:

• Tobias Schlitt: Writing testable code
• Sebastian Marek: Magic Behind the Numbers - Software Metrics In Practice
• Nick Belhomme: PHP traits, treat or threat?
• Jordi Boggiano: Redis - Your advanced in-memory key-value store
• Stephan Hochdörfer: The state of DI in PHP
• Craig Kitterman: Enterprise Class Cloud for the Average Joe

Tickets are still at their Early Bird prices (but only until December 16th!) and you can get a pass for both the tutorial day and main conference day for just 260 Euro. If you just want to attend the conference, that ticket is only 135 Euro. You can order them here. If you want to attend one of the tutorials, you'll need to specify that by ordering the related ticket.

We've added a speaker this time around for a total of six and did away with the lunch break. We discovered that since we were a virtual conference , our lunch break fell at odd times if you weren't actually in Central Time Zone - and a lot of participants weren't. So we filled that with an additional talk.

Speakers on the list include some names PHPers will recognize including Paul Jones, Elizabeth Naramore, Keith Casey and Rob Allen. Topics for this completely virtual conference include estimation, agile practices, freelancing hints, project management techniques and dealing with difficult people.

If you're interested in the event, you can find out more about it and get your tickets from their ordering page. The cost is $40 USD for attendance/video only or $100 USD for an "office party" of more than one.

CodeWorks '11 is a one day, single-track conference created specifically for PHP developers. Join us and developers from around your area for a full day of learning and networking as php|architect continues the tradition of bringing the conference experience to you. No airport security lines, no bad hotel food and you get to sleep in your own bed. See seven speakers present brand new presentations on topics they are passionate about. Learn from and talk to all seven speakers. This is your opportunity to get together with other PHP developers, talk shop, swap war stories, and take home a spark of inspiration.

They've split up the tour this year into a West Coast and East Coast tours they've posted preliminary schedules for each stop with speakers like Beth Tucker-Long, Cal Evans, Marco Tabini and Keith Casey. Tickets are $60 USD and you can pick them up right now on the CodeWorks page for your city of choice.

After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version. Since the first preview release, published 18 months ago during the Symfony Live conference, the Symfony community has done an amazing work. The Symfony2 code quality would not have been the same without their outstanding work. Thank you!

Fabien takes a little time to thank the community that's backed the project and has contributed their own time and efforts to making it a success. He also talks about the code itself mentioning its emphasis on standards, its efforts to be as decoupled as possible and some of the innovations they've brought to the world of frameworks. You can grab this latest release here and can learn all about this new version through the Quick Start tutorial.

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: the Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday (the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

If you're wanting to get involved but aren't sure where to start, you'll first need to get a CLA on file then you can start browsing unresolved issues of check out their "getting started" guide for more information.

You can now find the schedule for the PHP North West Conference 2011. We hope you like it as much as we do. The speakers have been selected via Call for Papers and hope that you share our excitement by this year's fantastic lineup! Thank you to everyone who submitted.

Topics included in this year's event are things like deployment with phing, Symfony2, DocBlox, Doctrine2, Git and various development processes types of talks. For more information about this great conference or to purchase your tickets, head over to the main conference site.

• design patterns
• Zend Framework optimization
• cross-platform development with Titanium
• unit testing
• Node.js
• Javascript frameoworks

Register now and reserve your spot today!

Welcome! It's our pleasure to announce the next edition of php|tek, which will take place in Chicago, IL, between May 25 and 27, with a tutorial day on May 24.

They've also announced the Call for Papers for the event that will remain open until December 17th (about 2 1/2 weeks from now). They're also offering 40 charter tickets available until Jan 11th at $700 (that's for both tutorials and main conference) for our most faithful attendees. For more information on the conference, the Call for Papers or these Charter tickets, check out the tek11 website.

PHP Unconference has established itself as a forum for core developers, developers and users to discuss PHP and other related web technologies. The next PHP Unconference will take place on 19th & 20th February, 2011 in Manchester, UK. The organizers are expecting 180 participants from all over Europe. Learn more about PHP Unconference Europe. The tickets will go on sale shortly. We would be really happy for you to come to the event this year.

In addition this year The PHP.cc will be providing a two-day training course about developing and testing PHP applications. Buying a pass for this also includes a pass for the unconference sessions. Keep an eye on the PHP Unconference Europe website for more details and for when the tickets go on sale!