Coming to you from the beautiful, sunny, hot and apparently very noisy American Airlines Training Centre in Dallas, TX, this week's episode features Marco Tabini, Elizabeth Naramore, Josh Holmes from Microsoft, Cal Evans and somebody's GSM tk...tk...tk... cell phone. Topics in Skyrocket in Flight include such nail biters as overturned cement trucks, missed flights, Microsoft's new WebsiteSpark program, our upcoming PHP on Windows contest and a little bit of rooting for Team Awesome.

You can grab this latest episode in the three usual ways - listen in-page, download the mp3 or subscribe to the podcast feed.

• A running journal from Cal Evans, a speaker on the tour
• A series from Ben Ramsey, speaker - days 1&2, days 3&4, days 5&6, 7&8, 9&10, 11&12
• Jason Sweat's summary of his time spent on the tour
• A summary from a Dallas regional speaker, Vance Lucas
• Chuck Burgess' summary of the Atlanta stop
• Ed Finkler's talks and a look back
• The CodeWorks recap from the Blue Parabola blog
• Gena's review of CodeWorks NYC

There'll be more to come as the conference finishes out its run so stay tuned here for more from the community as they're posted.

As you are a regular reader, you will no doubt, have noticed the CodeWorks speaker badge to the left of this post. It is my goal (not promise) to journal these final days of hectic preparation and the entire wild journey of what will undoubtedly be one of the more interesting things I ever do.

Here's the list of his posts:

• CWJ: Day -7
• CWJ: Day -6
• CWJ: Day -5
• CWJ: Day -4
• CWJ: Day -3
• CWJ: Day -2
• CWJ: Day -1
  
  
• CWJ: Day 0
• CWJ: Day 1-2
• CWJ: Day 3-4
• CWJ: Day 5-6
• CWJ: Day 7-8
• CWJ: Day 9-10
• CWJ: Day 11-12
• CWJ: Day 13-14

Keep coming back - this list will get updated as he makes new posts to his blog!

Zend Framework is unique in the PHP framework lineup in that it is simple to pull out single pieces and use them independently of the framework itself. This was the premise of the webcast I presented as part of the summer webcast series, hosted by phparchitect and sponsored by Microsoft. It it, I take several pieces of Zend Framework and use them to build a simple little tool. The tools is highly incomplete and only meant to demonstrate technique.

He's posted this sample code and his slides for the presentation for your perusal. The recording of the webcast isn't up yet, but you can check out other webcasts in the series on the Webcasts page on the php|architect site.

We're happy to finally be able to announce the CodeWorks 09 locations for our Miami, Washington/Baltimore and New York City locations'"and, in case you were waiting to find out where each event was going to take place, we're extending the early-early-bird special all the way to July 31st!

Here's the list of locations:

• New York will be at the New York Marriott Brooklyn Bridge
• Washington/Baltimore will be at the Embassy Suites Old Town Alexandria
• Miami will be at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel

You can get more information about the conference (including how to register - the Early Bird special is still going) from the main conference website.

Conferences are always busy-there are people to meet, new subjects to learn, gadgets to envy, and so on. Among all the fun stuff, it's difficult to keep track of exactly what you want to attend. [...] Fear not! Our development team has come to your rescue with a new tool exclusive to CodeWorks 09: the DreamSchedule Generator, which you can use to create your very own customized CodeWorks schedule.

The tool lets you pick the city of your choice and select each of the talks, one in each time slot, you want to attend. Name the schedule and you'll get a custom URL you can use to refer back to which sessions you wanted to attend. You can also send it out via Twitter if you'd like others to know where you'll be.

Using some of the technologies proposed by Microsoft to extend your PHP applications doesn't require a rip & replace approach. Sumit will present a series of projects (samples toolkits, frameworks and SDK) that enable PHP developers to easily extent their web applications.

Sumit will talk about technologies like Silverlight, SQL Server and Windows Azure. You can sign up for the webcast here (currently only Windows and OS X are supported by the GoToMeeting software).

If you'd like more information on the other webcasts in the series, you can see the full list here.

We're so excited that the schedule for CodeWorks 09 is finally online that we have decided to come up with a great promotion: if you sign up for CW09 before July 6th, your ticket could be free-or you could win a "Master Subscription" to all of php|architect's books and magazines! Read on for more info.

If you register before July 6th (just five days away!) you'll be entered into the contest to win one of several prizes, the top being a full refund on your ticket and a free pass to your CodeWorks city of choice. Other prizes include a "master" subscription to php|architect magazine and "master access" to all of their books.

Of course, there's some rules that go along with the giveaway, so be sure to look them over before you enter.

We're proud to announce the schedule and locations for CodeWorks 09. On average, each location features almost thirty different talks from some of the best speakers in the PHP world-spread across two days of conference goodness, coming to a city near you between September 22nd and October 5th for an unbeatable price!

Speakers for the various cities along the conference include Chris Shiflett, Eli White, Lukas Smith, Derick Rethans and Andrei Zmievski. Check out the full schedule to find out who'll be coming to your town!

Hope you were able to make it to the slides and excellent selection of upcoming webcasts leading up to CodeWorks 2009.

The webcasts are being recorded, but the recording of this session hasn't been posted yet. We'll update this post when it is.