• Lars Strojny
• Christian Weiske
• Florian Anderiasch
• and a post on the ThinkPHP blog

You can check out the conference homepage for more on what went on.

The conference was pretty small; about 80 people; in two small-ish conference rooms in the hotel. But everyone was great. Conferences are all about the people anyway. With the small crowd, it meant being able to spend time with a significant percentage of the people there. It was a mix of PHP thought leaders, everyday PHP programmers, and, since it was based in DC, a lot of folks focused on the unique industry that is DC - government.

He talks about some of the talks given - including Chris Shiflett's security talk and Eli White's look at high volume PHP & MySQL scaling techniques. He also mentions some of the "general chatter" that was happening around him. Check out the rest of the blog entry for more.

This past Thursday, I attended the DC PHP Conference. Since I was only there for a day, I'm sure I missed a lot, but I did manage to do some of the things on my list.

Talks hhe mentions were Mike Naberezny's look at Getting Started with the Zend Framework and Eli White's High Volume PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques talk. He also mentions meeting David Recordon from VeriSign and some work that Damien Seguy on tracking statistics on open phpinfo pages (about half still have register globals on!).

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

This week, there's talk of:

• the Zend_View_Pagination proposal (and download)
• some discussion on Localization
• a large discussion on Component Naming Conventions
• a new proposal for a Zend_Ecommerce module
• the suggestion for an "Announcements Only" list
• a proposal for a Zend_Graph module

And much, much more - it was a busy week on the mailing list, and you can check out Cal's summary or you can head over to the archives and check it out for yourself.

There's also a comment made about the Call for Papers for php|architect's next conference later in the year.

His summary includes mentions of Rasmus' keynote, Andrei's "rasmussed" talk on Unicode, and talks on the Zend Framework, time in PHP, and the panel discussion concerning frameworks in general.

He also attended the "conference party" one evening with a few others hitting some bars following (don't miss the videos of this one). The next day saw Derick Rethans going on with a PHP-related rant and Johannes Schlüter's talk on the reflection API.

PHP Quebec was an educational and entertaining conference as expected. The PHP Quebec User Group does a great job organizing the conference each year.

My talk, Agile PHP Testing, was very well received. I think KISS might be the missing ingredient that we need to ignite a testing revolution in the PHP community. Most people who approached me after the talk appreciated the simplicity of using test-more.php with no testing framework at all. I think they also appreciated knowing that using TAP allows them to "upgrade" later.

Of course, he includes the slides for his presentation, but he also links to others' presentations including ones from Ilia Alshanetsky, Andrei Zmievski, and Rasmus Lerdorf. And, for a little slice of what the conference was like visuall, check out Chris' pictures.]]> Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:33:03 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5094 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5094 Zend Framework from week to week, the Zend Developer Zone has started the first in their series of Framework Roundup posts, detailing the happenings of the previous week.

You know you've been waiting for it. It's one of the highlights of your week. It's the official kickoff of the weekend. Yes, it's the Framework Roundup! Grab yer hats and hip-waders and let's dive right in.

There's mentions of the mailing list being open to patches/code submissions from anyone, a start on a Zend_Mail class, some discussion on the PHP plugin for Eclipse, wonderings on the UTF-8 support for Lucene (Zend_Search), and quite a bit of talk about authorization and access control modules for the framework.

Be sure to check out this and future roundups for the complete weekly story.]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:44:49 -0500