Sessions to be presented at this year's two-day event include:

• Profiling PHP Applications (Derick Rethans)
• Composer for busy developers (Rafael Dohms)
• Building web apps from a new angle (Pablo Godel)
• Essential GIT for Developers (Adam Culp)
• Usability For Developers (Beth Tucker Long)
• Turbo Charge Your Logs (Jeremy Cook)

This year's event also includes a "PHP Foundations" track aimed at those just starting out with the language or wanting to learn PHP for the first time. You can pick up yourEarly Bird tickets right now - there's a limited number so be sure to get yours soon!

Have you ever been to a conference talk and wished the speaker could come and spend time with you to really explore the real 'nitty-gritty' of the topic? Well so have we, and that's why following last years success, PHPNW are again offering you this exceptional opportunity in the form of a tutorial day which will kick off the whole conference weekend.

This year's sessions include:

• Lorna Mitchell's Tools of the Trade
• Derick Rethans's Hands on Debugging with XDebug
• Stuart Herbert's Scaling Your Team with Hubflow

This year's event is happening October 5th, 6th and 7th in Manchester, UK with the Tutorial sessions being the first of the three days. You can find out more about the event (and tutorials) on the main conference site. Ticket sales are also open and Early Bird pricing is in effect until September 4th, so hurry to get in on this great price!]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:54:08 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18261 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18261 A new PHP conference has just been announced to the community - the True North PHP Conference (2012). The event will be held in Toronto, Ontario November 2nd and 3rd and is currently running their open Call for Papers.

We are firm believers that the PHP community is second to none. We also believe that Toronto has an awesome PHP community and deserves an equally awesome conference. Those beliefs are what inspired us to create True North PHP, a conference designed to showcase Toronto's talent and give back to the community that has given us so much.

If you're interested in speaking, you can find out more and submit your topics or, if you're just interested in attending, you can already pick up your Early Bird tickets.

We are very happy to announce the first confirmed speakers for the jsDay and phpDay 2012!

jsDay: Mark Boas (jPlayer/Happyworm), Greg Schechter (YouTube),Christopher Rhodes (Google) and Brandon Keepers (GitHub) , the full list here.

phpDay: Rasmus Lerdorf (Php creator), Zeev Suraski (CTO at Zend, Co-architect of PHP), Lorna Jane Mitchell (PhpWomen) and David Coallier (Orchestra CTO) and many other, the full talk list here.

Their Early Bird tickets are on sale until April 1st for both of these two-day events, so be sure you pick up your tickets now before this great discount expires! (jsDay tickets, phpDay tickets)

The Call for Papers has been wrapped up, the speakers have been selected and we're happy to announce that the schedule for this year's event has been posted!

Topics for this year's event include: Building testable applications, PHP extensions, Database testing, ElasticSearch, Mentoring developers, RESTful APIs. If you want to get in on the Early Bird pricing ($150 USD for the two-day event), hurry and get them before the April 15th deadline!

We are happy to announce that we have just published the schedule and registration is now open. Quickly, go and check out all the great content we have to offer this year! Once you've decided that you want to join us, you can go to the registration page to order your tickets. Please note that you will get a 15% early bird discount if you order your tickets before 15th April. Ticket prices were announced last week and can be found in this blogpost.

Topics in this year's event include:

• Testing with Behat
• Zend Framework 2
• Backbone.js
• OAuth
• Elastic Search
• RESTful web services
• Puppet
• Coding/deploying/scaling with Amazon AWS

You can get your tickets on their registration page with the early bird pricing for all tickets lasting until April 1st. When ordering the full pass or tutorial-only, you will be asked to specify the tutorial you wish to attend.

When? February 29 - March 02, 2012. Where? Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal downtown. How much? $600 (instead of $800). This rate is valid if you order before January 13, 2012.

You can order your ticket today in a variety of flavors - just a conference pass or conference plus a tutorial - either Advanced PHP, Security (both in French and English versions), Symfony2 or HTML5. Ticket prices range from $700 CAD to $400 CAD, depending on which tutorial is selected (or if it's selected at all).

Don't miss your chance to get a discounted ticket to the Code Works '11 tour. Order today and save 20% off of each ticket. Find the city nearest you in the tours below and order your ticket today and join us as sparks fly!

Cities on the route for this touring conference this year include Nashville, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland and Austin. Prices jump up to $100 USD for a single ticket and $90 for group tickets after today, so get yours at the discount price while you can.

The Zend PHP Conference (ZendCon) will be held October 17-20, 2011, at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. [...] The conference opening keynote will be given by Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend, who will be joined onstage by Michael Crandell, CEO and co-founder of RightScale.

Other keynotes include ones from Jeff Barr (Amazon), Hugh Williams (eBay) and Dwight Merriman (founder of 10gen). You an find out more about these sessions and lots of others packed into this great multi-day conference over on the ZendCon site. Register now to get the Early Bird pricing ($200 USD off the regular ticket price for the full event).

Ah the memories of ZendCon...there are just so many of them. Great session, Keynotes that inspire you to think, and some of the parties can only be described as epic. Alumni, you know what I mean, so join us again and continue the tradition. You know why you should be there, you've done it before and experienced it yourself. So don't put off registering any longer.

The discounts can give you anywhere from $50 USD to $100 USD off the ticket price and if you get tickets before September 10th you can get these discounts off of the already discounted Early Bird prices. You can get your tickets here.