This new post from IBM developerWorks (on the developerWorks blog), there's a reminder about the upcoming Zend/PHP conference

Next week sees the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo (see http://zend.kbconferences.com/) in San Francisco. It promises to be a great experience, with a goodly number of big industry keynote speakers, lots of hands-on tutorials, and three parallel session streams.

I'm presenting an introduction to Service Data Objects (SDO) on the first day which should give people the basic 101-level understanding of SDO and how to use it with XML and databases. I've included a few scenarios to hopefully keep it *real*. I'm really pleased to have been scheduled first on the parallel sessions, so I can then relax and enjoy the rest of the conference.

Wish I was able to make it - it sounds like an interesting talk. The Service Data Objects (not to be confuse with PDO) allows you to connect to a number of data sources and manage the information inside them via a layer that makes the data source transparent...