The AFUP (Association française des utilisateurs PHP) organizes on November 11th and November 12th at the Cité des Sciences in Paris, France, the Forum PHP for its 9th edition. The PHP Forum 2009 will welcome as a partner alongside the AFUP, the association LeMug.fr (MySQL User Group). On this occasion, AFUP decided to extend the pre-registration at preferential rates, and also postpone the deadline for the call for speakers. To monitor developments and press releases, visit the following link: http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2009/
For those who just returned from outer-space, last week was PHP|Tek 09 in Chicago, IL, USA. By far the most intensive PHP conference ever, organized by PHP|Architect, the true PHP magazine. I give here my experiences as I have recorded them during these very intense days.Tuesday, May 19
At the first day of PHP|Tek 09 I presented a session on Unit testing using PHPUnit, starting off with a simple example to explain unit testing and ending with testing a Zend Framework application using the application bootstrap.
I’ve been running a series of polls as research for a new conference talk that I’m currently putting together. The first two polls have had over 1,200 votes between them so far, which is a fantastic response! Now I just need your help with one final poll
Please vote on twtpoll to let me know where will you get your PHP 5.3 from? Many thanks in advance!
The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) in St. Augustin (near Bonn) Germany has evolved to one of the top open source events in Europe. Being organized on a completly voluntary basis, its a meeting point for geeks, open source enthusiasts and OSS companies. As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund (in cooperation with other German usergroups) organizes a PHP project room, with talks and discussions. The call for papers is open until May 23rd. The conference is scheduled for August 22nd - 23rd.
For those who haven't heard about it, last Saturday was PHP Test Fest 2009, and here in Belgium it was organized by PHPBelgium at the new Combell location in Ghent.We decided to test the SQLite3 extension, and we also had two people writing tests for LDAP. With a nice end result of 24 tests written for SQLite3 and 9 for LDAP, we are very pleased with the result since only 9 people attended our event.
The Call for Papers for ZendCon 2009 has gone out. This year's conference will be held October 19th - 22nd at the San Jose Convention Center. This year the conference has been expanded to focus on the whole development team and lifecycle of your projects. Therefore not only will there be sessions on 'writing PHP code', but are also emphasizing production processes, frameworks, management information, and the maintenance & tuning of servers.