The first day's post covers the usual - what the conference is like, the meeting area, some of the people he met up with, and the sessions he attended (including a mention of Rob Richards' "SOA: Beyond the Hype" talk.

The second day's post is jammed with more information about the conference, including all of the great talks he attended, including:

• Mike Potter's "Rich Internet application development with Flex"
• John Coggeshall's "Top PECL Picks"
• Graham Charters' "Service Component Architecture"

Things really started to pick up steam yesterday with regards to PHP. So here I sit in the first session for everybody. As I sit here and jam to the oldies, watch slide after slide on the many multimedia screens and wait for Nathan Torkington to take the stage, I'll take the opportunity to give you a fly-over of yesterday's activities.

He mentions

• his breakfast with Laura Thomson
• OmniIT's sales of Theo Schlossnagle's book (Scalable Internet Architectures)
• Marcus Borger's talk on OOP in PHP5
• Chris Shiflett talk on "Essential PHP Security"
• Laura Thomson and Luke Welling's "Building an Asynchronous Multi-user Web App for Fun … and Maybe Profit"

Cal also mentions that the talks given by the OmniIT-ers are being videoed, so keep an eye out for those following the conference's end.