php|architect has officially announced CodeWorks 2012, a touring conference coming to 10 different cities all around the US, each one day long (September 25th through December 12th).

Codeworks, our annual one-day conference tour, is back for yet another year to bring a full day of learning, fun, and networking opportunities to a city near you! Like every year, we're visiting ten cities on this year's tour, with some familiar stops and some new venues added to our roster. Codeworks is a one-of-a-kind experience. We take most of our staff on tour, alongside a few trusted friends and colleagues, and organize a one-day conference with professional-grade presentations on hot topics for the PHP development world.

The stops on the tour for this year are: Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Boca Raton, Madison, Memphis, Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles. Early Bird tickets are already on sale (just $25 USD) so you can pick up your pass and reserve your spot now!

On the php|architect site today Keith Casey has written up a summary of the eastern leg of the CodeWorks conference tour that just wrapped up in Orlando, Florida.

While it will still be a few days weeks until I'm finally recovered, I wanted to share a recap of CodeWorks East 2011 while it was still fresh. If you're looking for the core presenters' slides, attendees will receive them via email but they will not be published publicly until after the West Coast Tour is complete in January 2012.

He mentions their sponsor first (Adobe) and then gets into the details of each stop along their way - Madison, Nashville, Baltimore, Raleigh and finally Orlando. Their west coast tour kicks off on January 10th in Seattle (with further stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin). You can find out more about the event on the CodeWorks site.

php|architect has officially announced their CodeWorks '11 conference with stops in ten cities including Austin, Baltimore, Orlando, Portland and San Francisco.

CodeWorks '11 is a one day, single-track conference created specifically for PHP developers. Join us and developers from around your area for a full day of learning and networking as php|architect continues the tradition of bringing the conference experience to you. No airport security lines, no bad hotel food and you get to sleep in your own bed. See seven speakers present brand new presentations on topics they are passionate about. Learn from and talk to all seven speakers. This is your opportunity to get together with other PHP developers, talk shop, swap war stories, and take home a spark of inspiration.

They've split up the tour this year into a West Coast and East Coast tours they've posted preliminary schedules for each stop with speakers like Beth Tucker-Long, Cal Evans, Marco Tabini and Keith Casey. Tickets are $60 USD and you can pick them up right now on the CodeWorks page for your city of choice.

The php|architect folks have posted the details about this year's CodeWorks conference happening nine days in November and spread across five different cities all over the United States including Seattle, Orlando and Austin.

This year's theme is "Roadies, not Rock Stars". We are not rock stars, ninja's or guru's. We are code monkey's just like you and we do it because we love it. Just like you, we like to share what we have learned so others can benefit. Come join Marco Tabini, Ryan Stewart, Keith Casey and Cal Evans when we come to your town! Spend a day with us as we share with you what we've learned.

At each stop, this crew of four will present a one-day series of talks on things ranging from unit testing to APIs to working with OOP in PHP 5.3. You can find out more about the sessions that will be presented at your closest location on the CodeWorks site. You can also register and get in for the Early Bird price of $75 USD for a single ticket or $70 USD if you're part of a group.

If you're planning on attending the CodeWorks conference in your area (or where ever the closest stop might be), you might want to check out this extra incentive to register for your pass early - the possibility that your ticket could be free!

We're so excited that the schedule for CodeWorks 09 is finally online that we have decided to come up with a great promotion: if you sign up for CW09 before July 6th, your ticket could be free-or you could win a "Master Subscription" to all of php|architect's books and magazines! Read on for more info.

If you register before July 6th (just five days away!) you'll be entered into the contest to win one of several prizes, the top being a full refund on your ticket and a free pass to your CodeWorks city of choice. Other prizes include a "master" subscription to php|architect magazine and "master access" to all of their books.

Of course, there's some rules that go along with the giveaway, so be sure to look them over before you enter.

If you're planning on attening this year's CodeWorks conference, you'll be happy to know that the schedule has officially been announced!

We're proud to announce the schedule and locations for CodeWorks 09. On average, each location features almost thirty different talks from some of the best speakers in the PHP world-spread across two days of conference goodness, coming to a city near you between September 22nd and October 5th for an unbeatable price!

Speakers for the various cities along the conference include Chris Shiflett, Eli White, Lukas Smith, Derick Rethans and Andrei Zmievski. Check out the full schedule to find out who'll be coming to your town!