[{"id":"10403","title":"C7Y P3 Podcast: Ramblecast (php|tek 2008)","date":"1213301471","author":"enygma","story":"

\r\nThe P3 podcast (on the C7 site from php|architect) has released their latest episode<\/a> - the Ramblecast from this year's php|tek conference<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHere's the promised ramblecast that was recorded at php|tek 2008. Paul headed it up and Sean only showed his um.. voice for the last 30s. Lots of guests. Too many to list, in fact. Thanks to everyone who participated.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nYou can either just grab the episode<\/a> directly (mp3) or you can get this and many more great shows by throwing their feed<\/a> into your favorite aggregator and letting it go.\r\n<\/p>","views":"817","del_tags":"ramblecast phptek2008 p3 podcast episode phparchitect","post_image":null,"full_name":"Chris Cornutt"},{"id":"10270","title":"Marco Tabini's Blog: The master conference (evil) plan","date":"1211828296","author":"enygma","story":"

\r\nIn the wake of this year's php|tek<\/a> conference, Marco Tabini<\/i> has unveiled his secrets<\/a> to the \"master conference evil plan\" that he and the php|architect crew have been putting in to action for their conferences:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nFor the past four years, I have put a lot of work into executing a strategic plan that is tangentially connected with our conferences. [...] Instead [of trying to force interaction], I decided to try and slowly steer things in a direction that would have made our conferences closer to a family reunion than a dry business meetup. \r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nHe mentions the steps in his \"evil plan\" (for conference domination?) - community participation, setting the right atmosphere for the exchange of ideas, the oh-so-secret choosing of the speakers and their leadership by example through participation with the speakers and other conference goers.\r\n<\/p>","views":"770","del_tags":"master conference evil plan community involve reunion phptek2008","post_image":null,"full_name":"Chris Cornutt"},{"id":"10251","title":"Ivo Jansch's Blog: Microsoft and Yahoo, Zend, PHP updates at php|tek","date":"1211547513","author":"enygma","story":"

\r\nIvo Jansch<\/i> has been attending the php|tek 2008<\/a> conference this past week and some things have come to light about the rumors<\/a> between Zend and Microsoft. One of his latest posts<\/a> sheds some light on how Microsoft responded (as answered by Joe Stagner<\/a>)\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nJoe had an interesting presentation, he kept it short and to the point, and had the majority of his time dedicated to Q&A. Naturally, being in a PHP audience, the questions were about Yahoo, Zend, Microsoft's open source policies.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nObviously, questions were asked about two things - the Zend buyout and whether or not they have stopped talks with Yahoo. The answer to the first was a \"no, we're not doing that\" and the second was a more vague \"we're not done talking to them\" sort of answer. Another discussion included Microsoft's contributions to the Zend Core - how they're handled and if they're contributed back.\r\n<\/p>","views":"1214","del_tags":"microsoft yahoo phptek2008 conference keynote joestagner zend","post_image":null,"full_name":"Chris Cornutt"},{"id":"10238","title":"Community News: Andi Gutmans Responds to Zend Acquisition Rumors","date":"1211401496","author":"enygma","story":"

\r\nAs mentioned<\/a> by Ivo Jansch<\/i>, Andi Gutmans<\/i> (of Zend<\/a>) responded to the recent speculation<\/a> about a buyout of the company in his keynote address at this year's php|tek conference:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAndi explained the reason: they want to become cashflow positive, in order to remain independent. The news should be interpreted in a positive way, the future now looks bright, Zend products will not be affected and life goes on. An acquisition of Zend is not happening in the near future.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nTechCrunch had suggested that the recent large amounts of layoffs could have been in an effort to ready the company for a buy out from one of many proposed major players.\r\n<\/p>","views":"1068","del_tags":"zend andigutmans phptek2008 acquisition rumor cashflow positive","post_image":null,"full_name":"Chris Cornutt"},{"id":"10236","title":"Community News: php|tek 2008 Coverage","date":"1211395541","author":"enygma","story":"

\r\nRather than having a lots of different blog posts scattered all over covering this year's php|tek conference<\/a> in Chicago, I figured that pulling them all together here would work best. So, without further ado - the coverage from php|tek 2008:\r\n<\/p> \r\n