Community News: International PHP Conference 2007 Call for Papers
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The ThinkPHP blog has posted about the official Call of Papers for this year's International PHP Conference happening November 4th through the 7th.   Recently, we experienced a great conference in Ludwigsburg. The attendees' feedback on the conference was incredible and I hope you had as much fun as I had. Although the PHP Spring Edition has just ended, we are already starting to plan the next conference and I herewith send you the Call for Papers for International PHP Conference 2007 in Moerfelden, Frankfurt.   The conference this year will include a "Management Day" and some "Power Workshops" to go along with the usual talks. The deadline to get your talk in is July 10th, 2007 and should be about 30 minutes if it's a short talk, 75 minutes long if it's a normal talk and around 5 hours if it's a workshop. Head over here to submit your proposals.
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On Joshua Eichorn's weblog, there's a new post talking about some of the events covered at their latest PHP London meeting.
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Tobias Schlitt has posted a new note today about the extension the FrOSCon committee has put on the Call for Papers for this year's conference:   Here comes the reminder and the announcement, that our call for papers is extended until June 29th. So if you did not send your proposal, yet, please submit it ASAP, so that we can start evaluating the proposals. All information about PHP@FrOSCon can be found on our official PHP room website.   The conference will still be happening on August 25th and 26th in Sankt Augustin and only costs five Euro to attend (unless you're a speaker, then it's free). Be sure to check out the conference website for the requirements that you'll need to stick to for your talk submission.
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Paul Jones has posted a very quick note about one of his presentations today:   The slides from my php|works talk are now available as a PDF file. I'm going to try to create an audio version after I get back from the conference.   You can see a summary of Paul's talk (and a list of the others being given) over on the php|architect site.
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As mentioned by Elizabeth Naramore on the php|architect website today, the session schedule has been posted for this year's DC PHP Conference happening November 7th and 8th in Washington, D.C.   The DCPHP 2007 Conference schedule has been posted and includes sessions covering security, frameworks, enterprise, flex, ajax, and database performance. The conference is being held at The George Washington University Cafritz Conference Center in Washington DC, November 7-9.   The sessions this year include:   Mike Potter - Designing PHP-Based RIAs for Richer Internet Experiences Damien Seguy - PHP/MySQL Architectures Fabien Potencier - Simplify Your Professional Web Development with Symfony Edward Finkler - Securing the PHP Environment with PhpSecInfo and Zend Environment Security James Prather - Today's Politics: Where Does PHP Fit In?   You can still get in on the Early Bird pricing for the conference - $375 for the sessions, $200 for a One Day Pass and $100 for a Student Pass. Check out the conference's main website for more details.
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Sean Coates has a reminder posted to his blog for all of the aspiring PHP speakers out there to get their proposals in for this year's (well, next year's) php|tek 2008.   I just want to drop a quick reminder that the php|tek 2008 Call for Papers is about to close (on Oct. 31), so if you've been dragging your feet, now would be a good time to stop doing that and send in your proposals.   Some of the topics they're interested in this year are rich application development, PHP4->PHP5 migration and looks head at PHP6. Check out the Call for Papers page on the php|tek site for the full list of information you'll need to include along with the summary for your proposal.
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Ligaya Turmelle has relayed some great news in her latest blog entry, something that the web's been needing for a long time - a new group from the W3C created specifically for enhancing the HTML standard.   Now I have to admit to being curious about what is going on - after all anything new dealing with the web affects me as PHP coder. Since the W3C is supposedly interested in input from the Web community and content developers, I decided to see who from PHP would be there. Granted it is very early for the formation of the group so it didn't really surprise me to see no one from PHP that I know or heard about in there, but I wonder if anyone from the PHP Group will become a "invited expert" somewhere down the road.   The group is looking for members to help define this next generation of markup on the web. Check out their page for some of the qualifications needed to participate and for some of the upcoming events.W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
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Aaron Wormus has a new note on his blog today about his presentation at this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo and another speaker he's excited to hear.    One of the Zend conference sessions that I'm pretty excited about is Don Samisa Abeysinghe's (of WSO2) "Fully Fletched Web Services with PHP".   I'll be presenting a session on "Moving to PHP5 with Style." This tutorial/case study will be based on experience in transitioning several codebases from PHP4 to PHP5, creating unit tests & started a move towards a service based architecture without a complete platform rewrite.    Aaron's talk fits under the banner of the "PHP Development" talks, including others on topics like hosting PHP applications on Windows, working with PDO, unicoding in PHP6, and using PHPUnit.
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Michael Kimsal has posted a formal prediction that a patch, created by someone in the community, will emerge making it simple to bridge the gap between PHP4 and PHP5 applications.   Given the high number of shared hosts still running PHP4, the backwards compatibility issues going from 4->5 (yes, there are some!) and the new PHP4 "end of life" date (8/8/8), someone will likely find a way to make these run together, and possibly even charge money for it.   He suggests that many hosts out there would happily pay a sum to get this kind of functionally for their customers. It would provide a solution to customers who just don't understand the force towards PHP5 and would make them (and their PHP4 applications) happier.
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Lukas Smith is sending a wakeup call to the internet providers and web hosters out there - get involved in the PHP community!   We do not seem to have any ISP's active inside the PHP community. This is kind of odd, considering that PHP seems to be driving the business of hosters quite a bit. Why have none of them decided that PHP is important enough for their business that its worthwhile to ensure that their interests are taken into account?   He makes the suggestion of passing along the suggestion to bosses/co-workers/anyone who'll listen about getting involved. Suggested places to start would be as a part of the testers group or even contributing to the migration guide.
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Elizabeth Naramore has been kind enough to let us know that the schedule for this year's PHP Appalachia conference has been posted over on their site.   The schedule includes plenty of relaxing time spent camping, hiking and even a few PHP-related discussions thrown in, just for something different. Two official speakers are giving their talks first thing on Day Two and Day Three:  Ben Ramsey on REST Chris Spruck on Regex  There will also be some Lightning Talks for those interested during Day Two. Check out the full schedule for everyhting happening in this great three day event.
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Over on the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo site, they've formally announced the official schedule of events for the conference, giving times and dates for each of the talks.    Day One will see talks on: XML/Web Services, Best Practices, Extending PHP, and Security talk. You'll also be able to take the "Crash Course" before the Zend PHP5 Certification test in a two part series. Day Two is jammed with even more PHP goodness with talks covering: Scalable PHP Applications, eBay Web Services, a PHP case study, a great Panel Discussion, Ajax and Web Services, working with the Zend Framework, and Speeding up PHP with Oracle. Day Three has talks covering: Moving to PHP5, Moving an Enterprise to PHP, PHP/Rich Internet Applications, PDO, and PHP Lifecycle Management. Day Four (finishing things up) is shorter with talks on: Unicoding with PHP6, Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK2, Testing with PHPUnit, Developing PHP on Windows, and the closing keynote from Robert "r0ml' Lefkowitz   And, of course, any time after the first day, you can take the PHP5 Certification Exam instead of attending one of the sessions.   Haven't signed up yet? You can reserve your spot today and get in on all of the PHP goodness a presented by some of the best speakers around. Unforutnately, the Early Bird Special as passed, but check out the Registration page for all of the details on prices.
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php|architect has two new posts concerning their upcoming php|works conference (in Atlanta, Sept 13-14th) - cone concerning the Call for Papers and the other about a special offer when you register for the conference.   First, the Call for Papers reminder:   There is only one week left for the Call for Papers period for our great upcoming conference php|works 2006. [...] If you have a good idea for a talk, we'd love to hear from you before the Call for Papers is over on June 27th. We offer a great compensation package for speakers that includes a stipend for each talk or tutorial given, as well as an allowance for most travel expenses. We're looking forward to receiving your proposals!   And the special training offer:    Get a free training course valued at $769 when you sign up for a php|works full package. Hurry-space is limited! [...] it's next-to-impossible to come up with a good PHP course that can take place in a single day, both because of the great number of topics to cover and because there is only so much that a person can cram in a single day.   Luckily, we have a solution! For a limited time, we are giving every php|works attendee access to one of our popular training courses free when they sign up for a full conference package!    To get more information on this deal, check out this page on the php|architect site. For more information on the conference, check out its site for location details and to get registered today!
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php|architect has a new posting this morning serving as a reminder to all of those wanting to go to the International PHP Conference (and MySQL ComCon Europe 2004) - time is running out to register.
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