Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit - Austin, Texas - April 8th to 10th, 2008
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Unlike a lot of the events that I discuss in my Blog, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is a "by invitation only" event with a twist.  Normally for "invitation only events", the potential attendee sits by the phone with their prom clothes on, waiting for the call that may or may not come. read more
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Ben Ramsey has a reminder for those attending this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo (or maybe an incentive for those not yet signed up?) about the Unconference that will be happening in its own space where developers can come and present on their own topics.   When was the last time an event challenged your assumptions, and made you think? The PHP Unconference is a way to bring people who have a shared interest in PHP together. It could be just to explore interest in a common theme or it could be to do work together to accomplish a goal.    This year's chairperson is Patrick Reilly and they've posted some basic principles presenters will need to follow as well as a space on the wiki for topic suggestions or ones you'd like to present on.   You can learn more about this year's conference from the main conference website and stop by the zendcon channel on the Freenode IRC network to meet other attendees.
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Chris Shiflett has posted his look back at this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo on his blog today.   It has been more than two weeks since ZendCon, yet I can't seem to manage to find the time to recap the event. (Work has been keeping me busy.) This will be brief.   In the post, he talks about the attendees, his security talk, the community deck of cards, Wez Furlong's talk, and more. Check out his post for more info on the conference and what all went on.
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In a new post to his blog, Christopher Jones mentions some of the talks that he's going to give at the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo:   Oracle & PHP users: make sure you check out the Zend Conference.  I'll be given a couple of sessions, "Connection Pooling & Other Features for Data Scaling" and "Performance Tuning for PHP with Oracle Databases".  There are plenty of other great talks, too.   There's tons of other sessions happening during the conference including talks on:   best practices enterprise PHP the Zend Framework API design   Check out the official conference page for information on location, other sessions and registration.
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With RubyConf 2007 coming up this weekend, it's no wonder that the 2008 regional conference schedule is starting to flesh out.  the Gotham Ruby Conference hasn't mad an official annoucement yet, but should be in April.  Folks on the West Coast will be happy to hear that there are rumblings of two or three California based Ruby conferences.read more
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The official speakers list has been posted for this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo happening in October at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.   Included in the list for this year's conference are talks like:   Optimizing Service Oriented Architectures with PHP  - Glen Campbell The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay Implementing Access Control with Zend Framework - Darby Felton Give Your Site A Boost With Memcached - Ben Ramsey PHP Diversity - PHP applications in a Heterogeneous IT Environment - Joe Stagner PHP::$unicode->i18n() - Andrei Zmievski   Check out the full speaker's list here and the main conference site for details on pricing, lodging and all other conference-related information.
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Chris Shiflett has posted his own recap of the (just passed) php|works conference up in Toronto over on his blog.   I've been traveling non-stop since php|works, so I haven't had a chance to reflect on the conference, what I learned, who I met, and things like that. (Zak has been doing a good job of this lately, and I'd like to follow his lead.) I've probably forgotten more than I remember, but this is my recap.   Included in the things he mentions are:  The people he was able to meet (like Joshua Eichorn and Sebastian Bergmann) The talks he gave ("Truth about XSS" and "Agile PHP Testing") His interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone The PHP 5 Certification and Wez Furlong's "Not PDO" talk
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Via Damien Seguy:  PHP Quebec is pleased to announce the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada between March 12th and 14th, 2008. We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals.   The Conference features the PHPLab, where speakers and visitors will find solutions to actual business problems. The two days of technical talks will be dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services, databases, etc.   Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com
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Jonathan Corbet talks about the development process, why Sun's ZFS won't become part of the mainline Linux kernel and other issues.
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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So what's new with Linux at CES this year? That's our question. If you have the answers, let's have 'em. Because we'll be there on a Linux Hunt, just like we are every year. The difference this time is that we'd like to make this a Team Thing. read more
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At aKademy I had the chance to talk to Chris Schlaeger about SUSE, its relationship with the KDE community, his view of the Linux enterprise desktop and the speed of development of several key features in KDE (a Dutch translation can be found at Bart&amp;David
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The past month has introduced an interesting new distribution that is based on the Gnome and Debian projects. &nbsp;Ubuntu Linux is the end-user-oriented distribution funded by Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical. &nbsp;
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InfoWorld - The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference in Cambridge, Mass., this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP (Hypertext Processor) and embedded Java.
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Zend has announced today the keynote speakers for their upcoming PHP Conference and Expo happening in San Jose at the end of October.     Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced that Chris Anderson, author of "The Long Tail" and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, will keynote the second annual Zend/PHP Conference and Expo October 30-November 2, 2006. He will discuss how the theories in his groundbreaking article (and now book) apply to software development and to the growth of PHP in particular.   Also keynoting at this year's event is Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz, software architect, systems designer and open source strategist. At the conference, r0ml will analyze the evolution of our use of human languages as a source of inspiration for our use of programming languages. Matthew Rechs, CTO of the interactive agency Schematic, is also scheduled to address the conference. As part of his keynote, Rechs will discuss the mobile digital content store of Amp'd Mobile, a case study of one of the largest and most successful PHP deployments in private enterprise.    You can get more information about the conference, including the speaker list from the official conference site. And, while you're there, register to save your spot for this great PHP event!
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Elizabeth Naramore has posted a wrapup of this year's PHP Appalachia (un)conference held in North Carolina, including some pictures.   3+ days of collaboration, exchanging information, hiking, building campfires, and basically getting silly is now on my "highly recommended things to do before you die" list. Not only does a gathering like this provide you with an outlet to expand and share your knowledge on a professional level, it gives you an opportunity to relax with like-minded people and just plain have a good time.   Twelve developers made their way out this year for three days of hiking, talks, and just enjoying the camaraderie of being with fellow developers. She also mentions a few other topics that were talked about, spur of the moment (true to the form of the (un)conference).
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October 13th is the first-ever Ontario Linux Fest: http://www.onlinux.ca/ John Van Ostrand and Richard Weait, both long-time FOSS advocates, have gathered a great organizational team, and are modeling this after the long-running Ohio Linux Fest of last month