The inaugural Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 22nd and 23rd, 2007, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. [...] Kevin Schroder, podcasting wizard and member of the Zend Professional Services team, (think X-Men without the Spandex) will be speaking on PHP Security and PHP Performance.

You can get more information about the Code Camp from the event's main website.

This is an exceptional opportunity to discover how the web's most successful sites and applications were built, plus you'll get expert practical advice from the best in the business on creating your own web app. Whether you're a developer, business owner or entrepreneur, join us for this exclusive two-day audience with the biggest names in web development.

The conference is happening September 13th and 14th in San Fancisco, CA and features speakers such as Kevin Rose (digg), Cal Henderson (Flickr), Tom Coates (Yahoo), and Mike Arrington (TechCrunch). Talks are generally about an hour long, and there will be tons of topics to choose from.

For complete information on the conference or to get your seat today, head over to the main conference site.

Andi Gutmans (Zend Founder and a creator of PHP) will be speaking at SCALE 4x, the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo on Feb 11-12. He will discuss new features in PHP5, as well as planned features for PHP6.

SCALE is a non-profit community run event in Los Angeles, CA. Presenters include Jim Winstead (MySQL), John Terpstra (Samba), Chris Dibona (Google) and more.

You can still sign up and get tickets, but the Early Bird price has passed. Tickets are only $65 USD regular price/$32.50 for students - so you can't go wrong for a few days full of talks from respresentatives of companies like Google, RealNetworks, AMD, Sun, Novell, and, of course, Zend...]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:51:49 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4515 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4515 Title: Yahoo Web Developer for Small Business
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Y! Small Business is looking for a self-motivated experienced Web Developer to join the Small Business engineering team. In this capacity, you will work closely with interaction designers, visual designers, user experience researchers, software engineers, and product managers. The ideal candidate possess a strong command of markup, PHP, CSS to level 2, JavaScript to version 1.5, practical knowledge and use of up to DOM2 methods and properties, cross-browser development techniques, browser degradation strategies, well-versed in code optimization and development patterns, accessibility 508 compliance guidelines, and experience with end-to-end high-quality development/testing. You will exercise innovation and influence in support of UI design and heuristics through your expertise in client development to enhance user experiences.

Experience working in Unix environments, CVS or source control, and bug tracking tools is highly desirable. The environment is fast-paced with numerous, user-centered, iterative design and development cycles. You will be responsible for creating proof-of-concepts/prototypes to production-level "best of breed" websites and applications. If you're interested, send an email over to teddi [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com for the complete details...]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:03:12 -0600