Zend Developer Zone: OSCON ‘07 Wrapup
Original post provide by PHP FreaksIn the wake of this year’s OSCON, Cal Evans has posted his PHPcentric wrapup over on the Zend Developer Zone:
The echoes from the last OSCON parties haven’t even stopped reverberating though the halls as the next convention moves in. The vendors are all long gone and the attendees are all shoved in tiny seats on their express flight back to the real world. Let’s take a quick look over our shoulder at the party that was OSCON ‘07 before answering the call of the road and heading off to the next event.
Some of his items of note included the PHP tutorials (specifically the PHP and MySQL Best Practices from Luke Welling and Laura Thomson) and the many talks including one given by Andi Gutmans covering the Zend Framework and its role in a mashup involving Yahoo’s Term Extractor and Flickr.
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