On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a new post of a video interview with Chris Shiflett from last year's Dutch PHP Conference.

Today we're delighted to bring you another video interview from last year's Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. We're getting excited about this year's event (you can find the schedule here and if you want to join us then registration is open) so it seemed like a great time to bring you a reminder of one of the most memorable talks from last year. Enjoy!

The video can be watched in-page in the techPortal post or over on Vimeo.

Sean Coates has posted a post-Advent wrapup after he and Chris Shiflett have posted the final PHP Advent article for 2010.

As I write this on Christmas Eve, Chris is putting the finishing touches on PHP Advent 2010. [...] Due only to the abilities and professionalism of our most excellent authors, PHP Advent 2010 was - at least in my opinion-the best year, yet. They wrote wonderful, substantial, punchy articles that informed our readers, and generated significantly more traffic than we've seen in previous years: over 70,000 views, from more than 25,000 unique visitors, so far

He also recounts a few stories from the Advents in years past - the difficulties he and Chris went through to get things organized and ready for publication and how, in 2009 some things almost didn't happen. This year's advent has come back stronger than ever with great articles on:

• Aspect Oriented Design
• Working with Text and Media Files
• Streams
• and Managing LAMP applications

Good news for all of the fans of the PHP Advent article series that comes around this time each year - Chris Shiflett has confirmed it'll be happening again this year.

PHP Advent is our little way of showcasing some of the talented people who work with PHP in some form or fashion, and persuading them to share something they've learned during a busy month when they might otherwise keep quiet. We'll be publishing an article each day in December until Christmas.

If you're new to the PHP Advent (or advent-type article calendar things), check out last year's articles from lots of great members of the PHP community covering everything from development processes, technology tips and parenting.

If you're a PHP developer and you haven't heard the PHP "anthem" yet, you should have a listen. Chris Shiflett has put together a blog post about it and includes the lyrics and links to download the song/watch it on YouTube.

Yesterday on IRC, Andrei Zmievski mentioned a new song about PHP. Sean Coates linked to a YouTube video with the song, which I then mentioned on Twitter. [...] If you haven't listened yet, take a moment to do so.

The song is by Lee Fernandez (@reelfernandes) who will be interviewed in an upcoming episode of the Pique Web podcast.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest in their ZendCon Sessions podcast series, recordings from the ZendCon 2008 conference. This episode is Chris Shiflett's presentation on application security - "Security Centered Design".

In this series we will be releasing regular sessions from ZendCon 2008 as we lead up to this year's ZendCon. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Chris Shiflett giving his talk: "Security Centered Design"

The usual ways to get and listen to this latest episode are all there - the in-page player, download the mp3 or you can subscribe to their feed and get the latest delivered right to your doorstep.

Its the holiday season and even the PHP community is getting into the spirit. Much like last year, >Chris Shiflett (joined this time by >Sean Coates) have created this year's PHP Advent calendar.

From Chris Shiflett's blog:

Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others, PHP Advent is back again, this time with its own domain. I would call it a web site, but that might be stretching the truth at the moment. Jon is going to help us out with a simple design in the very near future. The focus, of course, is the quality content from our gracious authors.

The December 1st post for this year is one by yours truely - You Need the PHP Community. For more great content as the month goes on, you can keep up either through their feed, on Twitter or just by heading over to the site each day.

The keynote for this year's DC PHP Conference has been announced - Kshemendra Paul from the Office of Management and Budget:

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, June 2-4, 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and Enterprise Architecture Updates."

Other keynote speakers include Chris Shiflett of OmniTI ("Security-Centered Design: Don't Just Plan for Security; Design for it") and Chris Jones from Oracle ("Accessing All My Date: Directions for PHP and Databases").

You can find out more about the conference including the schedule and how to grab your spot (hurry before the Early Bird special runs out!) on the main conference website.

Both Chris Shiflett and Eli White has posted reminders/comments about the upcoming DC PHP Conference happening November 7th through the 9th in Washington, D.C..

Eli mentions the talk he will be giving ("my stock 'High Performance' talk") and Chris points out the two talks being given by other OmniTIers - Paul Jones on framework and application benchmarking and Nate with a look at CakePHP

Registration for the conference is still open so you can still get in on this great three day event with sessions on topics like API design, MySQL security, lots of Facebook talk and where PHP fits in with today's politics.

The Zend Developer Zone has made some major announcements about this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo including the reveal of one of this year's keynote speakers.

• Keynote - We have the name of the final keynote speaker. In case you canlt guess [from the picture], Cory Doctorow, blogger, author and co-editor of Boing-Boing will be speaking on Thursday morning at ZendCon.
• Speakers - We have a new speaker in the lineup. I'm pleased to announce that Chris Shiflett will be presenting his talk, "Security 2.0".
• Party 2.0 - Finally I'm excited to announce that at ZendCon this year, we will be hosting the very first "Happy Hour 2.0". In conjunction with Terry Chay and the Lunch 2.0 gang, we will open up the Exhibit Reception to everyone...for free.

You can get more information on the schedules and happenings (oh and register for the conference) over on the main conference website.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted about some of the opinions of Vanessa concerning some of the "hottest manbloggers" on the web. Included in her list are to PHPers - Chris Shiflett and Luke Welling.

Vanessa has realized what women like Laura and Christina already knew. PHP guys are smokin' hotties. To prove this she listed both Chris Shiflett and Luke Welling as two of the top 8 Manbloggers on the web.

For those that are wondering, here's some shots: Chris Shiflett, Luke Welling.

Here's a link to Vanessa's post too.