For those that weren't able to make it to either the PHP Unconference Europe or the PHP Days training that followed, Lorna Mitchell has posted her retrospective of the two events, briefly covering her experiences as both an attendee and speaker.

I spend most of the last week or so over in Manchester for a combination of excellent PHP-related events: PHP Unconference Europe on Saturday and Sunday (with a rather excellent warm-up party on Friday night!), followed by the PHP Days training on Monday and Tuesday.

She talks about the voting process at the unconference (the scientific "stickers" method) and her talk that was voted in - "Speaking Tips for Developers". She also talks about the PHP Days training where the members of thePHP.cc presented on best practices, good development, security, etc. (audience's choice).

If you're going to be attending this year's International PHP Conference you'd do well to check out some of the sessions thePHP.cc will be doing during the event.

There's ten different sessions given by the different members of the trio:

• Your Tests are lying!
• Why MVC is not an application architecture ...
• Introduction to Testing with Selenium
• Practical PHP Refactoring
• Agility and Quality
• State of the Mocks
• Security by Design
• XML with PHP: The Hidden Gems
• Hand in Hand: Dynamic and Static Testing
• Beautiful Models

For more information on these sessions or just about the conference, see the main conference site for full details.

According to this new post on his blog Stefan Priebsch, Sebastian Bergmann and Arne Blankerts have joined forces to create thePHP.cc, a PHP consulting group.

In times of tight budgets, quality is a key success factor to reduce risks in IT projects. [...] We help businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular. We support our clients in improving their employee's qualification to overcome skills shortages.

You can get more information about the group (including conferences they'll be at and contact information) from their site - thePHP.cc.