This year I had the privilege of speaking at this event [...] my talk was entitled "Best Practices in Web Service Design" although perhaps "Things I Wish Web Service Creators Would Consider Before Writing Unclear and Unstable Useless And Frustrating Services" would have been a better title.

This year's PHP London Conference was held on Friday, February 26th in London and had talks on regular expressions, mobile application development, cloud computing and database optimization. Check out the Joind.in page for the event to see comments left by those that attended.

The PHP UK Conference is now in its fifth year and is bigger and better than ever. Friday's event has 16 different hour-long talks covering a plethora of topics from some of the world's best PHP speakers. [...] PHPWomen is a community partner of the event and will have a stand in the exhibition hall amongst a variety of other exhibitors.

Two members will be speaking at the event - Juliette Folmer and Lorna Mitchell - and there's a special offer for PHPWomen members that still haven't purchased their tickets. If you register through this link, you can get an automatic £20 discount off the normal ticket price (now going for £120). You can get more information about the conference from the main PHP UK Conference website.

Today (Dec 31st, 2009) is the last chance for £100 registration to #phpuk2010 next month is £110!

You can find out more about the conference and what's included in the registration on the conference website or just reserve your spot immediately!

• Damien Seguy
• Lorna Mitchell
• Ian Barber
• Juliette Reinders Folmer
• Fabien Potencier
• Derick Rethans

If you're wanting to register, you just missed the Early Bird pricing, but you can still get in for a discounted price until the end of December. Check out their registration page for more pricing information or just register right away for this great day of PHP goodness.

The main focus of the conference is obviously the talks that are given, and so we hope to attract the best PHP speakers from around the world. [...] We are looking for talks relating to any non-basic aspect of the PHP programming language, be it mainstream, advanced, niche or non-technical. Speakers will be invited to the pre-conference dinner, likely to be on Thursday February 25th 2010 and the post-conference social dinner after the event.

You can submit your abstract via the form on this page or you can email the details to conference@phplondon.org.