Conference Schedule

In-depth tutorial day: May 20, 2008

Please note: lunch and power breaks (coffee & assorted snacks) are included in the tutorial add-on package and will be provided throughout the day.

Access to the May 20 tutorials requires the purchase of the Tutorial Day Add-on.

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 12:00 Zend PHP 5 Certification Crash Course (AM)
Ben Ramsey
Working With Web Services
Rob Richards
Ajax Boot Camp
Christian Wenz
12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 16:00 Zend PHP 5 Certification Crash Course (PM)
Ben Ramsey
Embedding PHP Applications in Social Networks
Luke Welling
Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium
Sebastian Bergmann

Day #1: May 21, 2008

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 PHP State of the Union: Eco-System and Technology
Andi Gutmans
10:00 10:15 Break
10:15 11:15 Choosing RIA technologies
Josh Eichorn
50 Reasons why you should be using PHP 5
Stefan Priebsch
Accessibility for Web 2.0
Eric David Benari
11:15 12:15 State & Ajax - How to maintain browser, and application state in an asyc world
Paul Reinheimer
Ajax Website Testing
Christian Wenz
IS7, FastCGI, and More for PHP the Developer
Joe Stagner
12:15 13:15 Lunch
13:15 14:15 XQuery: Next Generation Data Access, Today
Kitman Cheung
The Ins and Outs of FileMaker/PHP Hybrid Solutions
Jeremiah Small
Introduction to Apache mod_rewrite
Rich Bowen
14:15 14:30 Break
14:30 15:30 Web-Scale PHP Database Connection Management
Christopher Jones
Design Patterns in PHP
Jason Sweat
Building Distributed Web Applications
Jason Rexilius
15:30 15:45 Break
15:45 16:45 Designing for High Availability
Morgan Tocker
Exceptional PHP
Jeff Moore
Who Am I? (OpenID, InfoCards)
Rob Richards
16:45 17:45 Facebook Performance Caching
Lucas Nealan
Image manipulation with PHP
Scott MacVicar
PHP's Dirty Secrets
Derick Rethans

Day #2: May 22, 2008

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 Keynote: SugarCRM: A Commercial Open Source Success Story
Jacob Taylor
10:00 10:15 Break
10:15 11:15 Streaming XML
Rob Richards
Understanding the PHP Object Model
Sebastian Bergmann
Test Driven Design in PHP
Jason Sweat
11:15 12:15 Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and Javascript in AIR
Ed Finkler
Of Haystacks and Needles
Derick Rethans
SQLite3
Scott MacVicar
12:15 13:15 Lunch
13:15 14:15 Keynote: A New Perspective: Open Source in Microsoft's Developer Division
Joe Stagner
14:15 14:30 Break
14:30 15:30 Coding for Success: Writing Software You'll Be Able To Understand Next Month
Jeff Moore
PEAR, Phar, and Smart PHP Application Deployment
Greg Beaver
Performance Tuning MySQL
Morgan Tocker
15:30 16:30 PEAR2, Whats new and what can you use today
Josh Eichorn
IT Project Management Best Practice Tools and Techniques
Eric David Benari
Keeping Your Database and PHP in Sync
Maggie Nelson
16:30 17:30 Help, my website has been hacked, now what?
Eli White
The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development
Brian DeShong
RIA with open standards
Jeff Griffiths

Day #3: May 23, 2008

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 Realizing the Full Potential of Your Rich Internet Applications
Mike Potter
Securing the PHP Environment With PhpSecInfo
Ed Finkler
Angering Database Gods
Maggie Nelson
10:00 11:00 Security 2.0
Chris Shiflett
Robust Batch Processing with PHP
Brian DeShong
High Performance PHP & MySQL scaling techniques
Eli White
11:00 12:00 Type-Safe Objects in PHP
Sebastian Bergmann
APC @ Facebook
Brian Shire
The Gory Details of A PHP Migration
Stefan Priebsch
12:00 12:15 Break
12:15 13:15 The Internet is an Ogre
EXPLICIT

Terry Chay

Please note: the schedule is subject to change without notice

 


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