We have finally selected all the great speakers that will share their experience with the Framework with you at Symfony Live Portland 2013. We had a very hard time choosing among all the excellent talks' proposals we received. After a long time of thinking, we are very pleased to publish the talks we think you most want to attend for this edition. For the first time in the USA, there will be 2 tracks per day; more than 20 talks are scheduled, a lightning talk session and the now famous Jeopardy session with the fantastic Jeremy Mikola! Let's say that it will be now your turn to have a hard time choosing among these great talks! Have a look now at the schedule and register to the conference!

They also mention the availability of the Symfony certification and that they're still looking for sponsors for this year's event. You can register now and pick up tickets for about $400 USD ($600 for the Combo pass).

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!

• The PHP Content Repository PHPCR (David Buchmann)
• Git Flow: an Agile Development Process (Xavier Hausherr)
• Understanding the heart of Component Security (Rouff Joseph)
• How to organize your templates twig? (Gregory Pineau)
• Integrate forms and validation in your PHP applications (Hugo Hamon)

You can still get your tickets for thus year's event too- they're the "last minute" tickets and will cost about 300 Euro, but there's still some left!]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:26:48 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/19154 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/19154 The php|tek conference has announced their schedule for their 2013 even happening in May:

We have a big announcement this year. Because we had over 400 amazing talks submitted to us, and we just couldn't bear to decline that many of them. We are expanding the tek13 conference format to include 4 concurrent tracks this year!

Sessions at this year's event include:

• "Zend Framework 2 Tutorial" - Rob Allen
• "Git Makes Me Angry Inside" - Emma Jane Hogbin
• "PHP and Node.js Together" - Chris Tankersley
• "Performance Perpetrators: Profiling for Professionals" - Derick Rethans
• "Database Version Control without Pain?" - Harrie Verveer
• "Building Testable Applications" - Chris Hartjes

Their Early Bird pricing for this year ends at the end of this month, so if you want the discounted price, be sure to register early!

Sessions that will be presented at this year's conference include:

• "Your code sucks, let's fix it" (Rafael Dohms)
• "Javascript APIs and the HTML5 Umbrella" (Jake Smith)
• "Cryptography for the Average Developer" (Anthony Ferrara)
• "Practical Solr" (Radek Zajkowski)
• "Getting Acquainted with MongoDB" (Jeremy Mikola)

Tickets are on sale and you can picks yours up for $200 CAD with both days of the event included. For more information, see the conference's main page at TrueNorthPHP.com.

The schedule for the Symfony Live conference in San Franscico has just been published. For the first time in the US, Symfony developers will be able to take the Symfony certification exam on September 29th. You can already register.

They're also still looking for sponsors for the event if you'd like to help out. You can also go purchase a ticket if you know you'd like to attend this year's event (September 26th through 29th in San Francisco, CA).

Sessions from jsDay include:

• Backbone.js FTW! (Pierre Spring)
• JavaScript Application Architecture (Brandon Keepers)
• Ember.js - Focus on your app not on boilerplate code (Garret Alfert)
• Getting Started with Nodejitsu (Nuno Job)
• Go to hell Flash! We have Open Web! (Michal Budzynski)

Sessions from phpDay include:

• Test Driven Development with Symfony 2 (Jacopo Romei)
• Scalable architectures: Taming the Twitter Firehose (Lorenzo Alberton)
• Get'em in shape: let customers appreciate the agile workflow (Stefano Maraspin)
• An introduction to Phing the PHP build system (Jeremy Coates)

For more information about these events and to get your tickets, see the sites for each conference: phpDay, jsDay.

With more than 130 talk submissions, we had a hard time putting together what we think is a great schedule for Symfony Live Paris 2012. This year, we will have three parallel tracks with many great talks and great speakers. We will have many Symfony talks based on real-life experience: learn new tricks about Security and Assetic from Kris Wallsmith, and let Richard Miller teach you tips on how to use the Service Container.

Sessions at this year's event include:

• Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web (David Zuelke)
• Behat by example (Behat best practices) (Konstantin Kudryashov)
• Security: In Real Life (Kris Wallsmith)
• How we built the new responsive BBC News site (John Cleveley)
• There is a Bundle for that (Christophe Coevoet)
• Advanced Silex (Igor Wiedler)

If you want to attend this year's event, you can find more information here.

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.