The PHP World congress offers on the first day three Workshops, per to one to the Zend Framework, eZ Components as well as Flow3, which Framework, on which in the future Typo3 will be based. [...] The second day focuses on "PHP in the Enterprise".

Speakers like Tobias Schlitt and Christian Wenz will be presenting. The attendance fee starts at about 490 Euro - check out the official site for more information on registration and the official schedule.

Felix Geisendorfer notes:

Tim and I are very thrilled to announce the very first two-day workshop for everybody who is interested in mastering the CakePHP framework. The event is a collaboration between Debuggable Limited and the Cake Software foundation.

The cost for the event is $600 USD for a normal admission and $500 USD for a student admission. Speakers will include Garrett Woodworth, Nate Abele and Felix and Tim (of the Debuggable blog). The post includes a "what to expect" for attendees and a complete listing of the talks for each day and descriptions of each session.

Signup now to reserve your spot.

A few seats are still available for both of these workshops. Secure your seat today! I am also available for in-house training, coaching, and consulting around the days of the workshops.

You can save your spot for one of these events by visiting this page and entering you info (you'll want the "Quality Assurance in PHP Projects" option).

At the beginning of this workshop I will give you a general overview on eZ Components, show you the most important concepts and illustrate our architecture and design decisions. After that, we will start digging into code and you will see, how different components work in practice.

The session is scheduled for the first day of the conference (the workshop day) that's three days away - the 4th of November. So, if you're interested in finding out about this powerful framework and are looking to get a good, solid introduction, be sure not to miss Tobias' session.

During this short workshop there will be no changes to the phpBB code, we'll create a new template instead, so that in case something bad happens, your board will continue to work normally. As an example, I'll use the bgcanada.com/phpBB2, the board I volunteer to administrate.

The tutorial is broken up into sections:

• The plan
• New subdomains
• Creating a new template
• Moving CSS to an external file, merging
• Copying files to the new subdomains
• Serving gzipped content
• Turning ETags off
• Expires header
• Sysadmin summary

It looks like a lot of steps, but each section is relatively short and written well so as not to have more information than needed. In the end you'll have a simple template that uses Yahoo's 14 optimization rules to make things work that much faster.

If you missed the announcement, we are giving a training on symfony for novices to advanced beginners. The event takes place in Paris, from Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th of June, and it is in English. The training program, as well as all the details and pricing, are available at the Sensio Labs website.

The early bird registration price is 1200 Euro as long as you register today, but it'll jump up to 1400 Euro for anytime after.

I just returned from vacation and realized, that the PHP Weekender (the free-of-charge workshop weekend for PHP enthusiasts, organized by the [http//phpugdo.de PHP Usergroup Dortmund]) has 90 verified, registered attendees so far.

This is really cool, we never expected such a huge number of signups! Anyway, the PHP Weekender starts on upcoming Saturday, October 7th. If you did not register, yet, you should take your heels and run to our website, since we will only accept registrations until tomorrow 12:00 CET.

There's stil time to get your name on the list, so head on over and sign up today before it's too late!

It's been a good month, since the PHP Usergroup Dortmund asked for feedback on the idea of a PHP introduction workshop in Dortmund. Because of the huge masses of interessted people, we expanded the idea and are now going to make a 2 day, 2 track PHP introduction weekend, including 2 workshops and a lot of interessting sessions about topics like "XML handling", "Enterprise PHP", "SOA" and "Shell scripting.

The event will be presented in German and will be happening October 7th and 8th at Dortmund University. You can get complete details about the event (and reserve your spot) from the event's main website.

Wez will be speaking at both the php|works conference (presenting a 3 hour workshop on Extending PHP, a talk on PDO, and a best practices talk about sending mail with PHP) and the Zend/PHP Conference with his usual talk on PDO.

Adam will be speaking at both of those conferences and one more, the DC PHP Conference. At all three conferences he'll be presenting roughly the same material based around his Dude, Where's My Used Car eBay/Google Maps mashup.

Mike will be at the DC PHP Conference and the Zend/PHP Conference presenting three differnent talks - a look at PHP (Intranet) Web Services, another about getting started with the Zend Framework, and the last, a look at Best Practices in developing your PHP.

Wolfgang Drews comments that he'll be attending (and speaking) at the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference on the subject of "WOOA - SOA for the Web"

Some of you may have noticed a power workshop on PEAR advertised on the website of the S&S PHP Conference in Frankfurt this coming November. For personal reasons, I have been forced to pull out, so I'm sorry to say I will not be meeting any of you in Germany. If you're going, have a great time there!

For more information about the rest of the offerings that will be at this year's conference, check out their official page, specifically this page for the Power Workshops.