With their own wrapups of the php|tropics conference today, Ilia Alshanetsky and Derick Rethans have their latest postings on their blogs.

From Ilia: The PHP|Tropics conference was a great deal of fun and an excellent break from the monotony of work, sleep, work... I would like to thank the organizers (Marco & Arbi) for taking the time to organize this event and have it go without a hitch. To those who decided to skip the sandy beaches and the inviting pool to hear the talks, my sympathies. The slides from both of my talks are now available online at:

• Starting PHP
• Performance Talk: PDF PowerPoint Flash

From Derick: The past couple of days I've been speaking at php|tropics in Cancun, Mexico. It might not be the first place that you could think of for organizing a conference as attendees might find the pool and the free drinks more intesting than going to the conference sessions. The presentation slides of my three presentations:

• Xdebug
• Clustering PHP and MySQL
• Playing Safe: PHP and Encryption

(Also, be sure to check out Derick's pictures from the conference...and, now - Ilia's gallery too)