I've been traveling non-stop since php|works, so I haven't had a chance to reflect on the conference, what I learned, who I met, and things like that. (Zak has been doing a good job of this lately, and I'd like to follow his lead.) I've probably forgotten more than I remember, but this is my recap.

Included in the things he mentions are:

• The people he was able to meet (like Joshua Eichorn and Sebastian Bergmann)
• The talks he gave ("Truth about XSS" and "Agile PHP Testing")
• His interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone
• The PHP 5 Certification
• and Wez Furlong's "Not PDO" talk

My schedule was crammed right after php|works 2006, so I could not find an earlier possibility to blog. Anyway, the extended entry contains my short report on php|arch's second conference this year.

He talks about some sightseeing before-hand, Tutorial Day, XML Security demos, Unicode in PHP6, a "slight problem" concerning his laptop, and his role on the Zend PHP5 Certification Panel. Check out the full entry for all of the details and "expect a separate blog entry later" on his experience on the panel.

This last look at the conference includes mentions of:

• Joe Stagner's keynote talk,
• Cal presenting his talk - "Debugging PHP without cursing...mostly"
• Wez Furlong's PDO talk
• Derick Rethans' and his "Ranting Hour"
• The panel discussion on the Zend PHP 5 Certification
• PHPers winning at trivia
• Accordian cover solos
• John Coggeshall's "Apps Made Easy on Zend Framework" talk

Check out the full post for the rest of the story (especially the accordion music selections!)

• php|works 2006: Mozilla Report
• php|works 2006: Mozilla agenda
• php|works 2006: eZ Report
• php|works 2006: The eZ Plan
• php|works 2006: General Followup

You can see his progress (and experiences) in these series of posts:

• Run-up To php|works and some AJAX fun
• Slides For My php|works Presentation "What Can PHP Learn From Ruby On Rails?"
• Live From php|works (Keynote edition)
• Live From php|works - Interview with Cal Evans
• Live From php|works (laying in bed edition)
• Live From php|works Day 2 (Keynote edition)
• Live From php|works Day 2 (decompressing edition)
• Live From php|works Day 2 (sitting in the lobby edition)
• Live From php|works Day 3 (Almost there edition) Live From php|works Day 3 (Falling asleep at home edition)

Be sure to check back for more updates as the conference comes to a close.

He said the current state of the Internet includes a litany of broken items, but with a little help from PHP there may well be some hope for the Web yet.

The article talks about some of Rasmus' other thoughts on the status of the web, and how, with the right functionality and knowledge spread out through the PHP community, the language can compensate for some of the "stupidity" that web programmers (and users) regularly see.

He also talks a bit about a "rich application delivery system", MySQL versus PostgreSQL, parsing and compiling speed, and opcode caches.

Day Two at php|works started off with a bang. Rasums presented his "Getting Rich with PHP" as the opening keynote. If you've never seen this presentation, the OSCON version is described here with links to a video of it as well as the slides. It's an interesting presentation. I missed the first section of it at OSCON where he slaps around both IE and FLASH pointing out some serious security holes. Again, it's a great presentation and worth the time to listen to.

Cal talks about...well...the talks and about the interviews he started (like with Chris Hartjes, Ilia Alshanetsky, Chris Shiflett, and Sebastian Bergmann).

The slides from my php|works talk are now available as a PDF file. I'm going to try to create an audio version after I get back from the conference.

You can see a summary of Paul's talk (and a list of the others being given) over on the php|architect site.

Day One at php|works was dedicated to tutorials. Paul Reinheimer did a 6 hour crash course for those who wanted to take the Zend Certification Test here at the conference. I talked with a three attendees at the Crash Course to get their opinion on how it was going. Cairan Walsh, who is not currently Zend Certified found the course interested although he thought maybe it was a bit too basic.

Cal notes that just about everyone that attended the "Crash Course" was pleased with the contents/teacher/etc. He also mentions his visits to the "Advanced XML and Web Services" and "Extending PHP" tutorials.

He summarizes both Monday (flights and sleep) and Tuesday, "Tutorial Day". Specifically, he mentions attending the PHP 5 Certification Crash Course and the Extending PHP talk given by Wez Furlong.

He's also posted some photos of the event over on his Flickr account to check out some of the festivities.