In a new post from Gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski's weblog) today, he recaps his experiences at the php|tropics conference as well as describing a few of the extra-cirricular activities that he and some of the other speakers attended.

Last week I was at the PHP|Tropics conference in Cancun, Mexico presenting two talks, one on regular expressions in PHP and the other on the new version of PHP-GTK. The conference was held at the Moon Palace, a sprawling resort located not far from the city. Some of its highlights are worth mentioning: free drinks, 6 restaurants and snacks around the clock, an enormous swimming pool with swim-up bars, jacuzzi in the room, a variety of tours and activities and much more. My only complaint would be that the place was so big that it took a good 10-15 minutes to walk from the lobby to the to the room and back. The conference itself went very well - kudos to Marco again. The talks were interesting and informative, and it was great to sit by the pool afterwards and discuss everything from PHP to traveling around the world to British comedy series and so on.

If you're looking for the talks that he gave at the conference, they can be found over on his talks page:

• Andrei's Regex Clinic: PDF, Quicktime, and PowerPoint
• Say "Hello" to PHP-GTK2: PDF