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The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation. PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in groups of elePHPants, shall join this year’s herd. ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places. Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership or simply bring joy and PHP around. Pre-register your herd of elePHPants online, for big and small, and join the world of blue elePHPants.

The French AFUP association is proud to announce the sixth annual PHP meeting in Paris, on November 21st and 22nd, 2007. Developers and managers will gather to meet Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski and other prominent community experts for two days of sessions, packed with enterprise solutions and advanced techniques.

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued. The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5. For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

Just heard that Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft. I guess he’s achieved every possible goal he had, and it’s downhill from here

I always enjoy reading Roger Sessions work on designing scalable software infrastructure. He’s a Java framework expert who has become a .NET advocate. Roger has written a very interesting white paper on A Better Path to Enterprise Architectures. It’s a rehash of the KISS principle and small is beautiful, taken from a software designer’s perspective.

If that sounds pretty dull to you, read the fighter pilot analogy Roger brings up, where he talks about Mig-15 and F-86 dogfights. Stirring stuff.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 will once again take place from July 23rd - 27th 2007 in Portland, Oregon, and has a PHP track as usual. The Call for Papers closes Monday February 5 2007. You can find more information at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/.

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PHP Québec is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the PHP Québec Conference. The conference will take place in Montréal, Canada on March 14-15-16th 2007. It features 2 days of technicals talks and an additional day of workshop. Among the speakers, the well know PHP experts such has: Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski, Derick Rethans, Ilia Alshanetsky, John Coggeshall, Damien Séguy, and many more. The conference has three distinct tracks : Advanced Techniques, Data Availability, PHP: Beyound Theory. With over 35 sessions and workshops, the PHP Québec Conference is great opportunity to learn about the latest development and professional techniques to help you build high quality PHP software and meet with PHP. Special prices are available for all Open Source community members and major contributors.