• Lorna Mitchell (advocating women to get into PHP and the PHP Women group)
• Ivo Jansch's talk
• An interview with Zeev Suraski
• A talk with Marco Tabini of php|architect
• Their own general overview of the conference itself.

Check out all of the videos from Bachelor-ict.nl's list on the Vimeo website.

• A summary from the PHP Women website
• Lorna Mitchell's slides from the conference - PHP Deployment with SVN
• A wrapup from Matthew Weier O'Phinney
• Shots from Flickr tagged for the conference
• some thoughts from Paul Wander of Ibuildings on the conference

Looks like the conference was a great success - thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Ibuildings team and Zend.

Meet Ghica van Emde Boas. Ghica is one of our Dutch members, herself a published author. She attended the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam last weekend, and was generous enough to donate three signed copies of her own book which went to assist some of the local ladies in their learning. Here is Ghica's account of her day.

Ghica's day included Zeev Suraski's talk, Marco Tabini's presentation on mayo (oh, and application design) and well as talks from Derick Rethans, Lorna Mitchell and Stefan Priebsch (oh, and the infamous Terry Chay).

• Stefan Priebsch's slides - PHP 5.3 and PHP 6 - A Look Ahead
• Ivo Jansch's wrapaup
• Helgi's coverage of each day - Day 1
• Lorna Mitchell's experience giving her talk there at the conference and her first day summary
• Sebastian Bergmann's slides - New Features in PHPUnit 3.3, Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

If you weren't able to attend, be sure to check out some of the pictures from the conference over on Flickr (and if you were there, be sure to tag your own pictures with "dpc08").

Based on feedback from the 'call for ideas' we have added a session on security. It will be presented by Johann-Peter Hartmann, the CTO of Mayflower. Also, we are happy to announce that Terry Chay, a well-known blogger in the PHP community and informally called the 'PHP terrorist', will deliver the closing keynote.

You can check out the rest of the presentations (5 tutorials and 12 sessions) on the conference's schedule page and, if you haven't already yet, you can still register to reserve your spot to enjoy this great event (talks only, tutorials are sold out).

PHP is still growing in The Netherlands (according to nexen.net, 46% of Dutch domains use PHP). A good indicator of PHP's growth is the number of conferences and other events that are organized this year. [...] This year alone, there are already 6 major (>50) events; 3 done, 3 to go.

Some of the events (like Dutch Joomla Days and the PHP Business Seminar) have already passed but there's still a chance to get in on a few others like Kings of Code and the Dutch PHP Conference.

The first results of the CFI have been announced. Most requested speaker was Derick Rethans. He'll be at DPC and present an XDebug workshop on the Tutorial Day, and a presentation about the ezComponents framework on the main conference. Most requested topic was a look ahead at PHP5.3 and PHP6. We've found Stefan Priebsch, experienced speaker and expert on PHP migration, to be willing to present this topic. On the main conference day, he will give an overview of the future of PHP.

They're still in the process of looking for other speakers to fill in the last two spots abut the lineup for the rest of the conference is impressive - speakers like Zeev Suraski, Sebastian Bergmann, Gaylord Duke and Ivo Jansch himself will be presenting.

You can get more information about this two day event on the conference's main site.

I'm proud to announce that we're organizing another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, with the help of the great people at Zend. It will be in Amsterdam on June 13 and 14 this year. Last year we organized it for the first time, and based on feedback from our visitors we have made several changes to this years event.

Changes include the expansion into two days, increased capacity and the primary language of the conference is English this year. They also included an interesting twist - allowing those attending (or potentially attending) the conference to submit their thoughts to the "Call for Ideas" they would like to see presented.

The main conference site has full details about everything you'd need to know including where and how to register to save your spot.

Ibuildings and Zend Technologies are proud to organize the second Dutch PHP Conference on June 14. Plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 13. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks

This year's even will be happening somewhere in Amsterdam and "big shot" speakers like Lorna Jane Mitchell, Zeev Suraski, Sebastian Bergmann, Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Fabien Potencier, Marco Tabini, and Ivo Jansch will be presenting. If you register before April 14th, you can get in on the Early Bird Special of 350 Euro for both days, 295 Euro for the Tutorial day or 100 Euro for just the conference.

You can get the full story on this year's even (including the schedule) from the conference's main website.