Off to the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo by Ben Ramsey

I’m flying out to San Jose tomorrow for the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo. Does anyone know the way? ;-)

I’ll be speaking at this conference on Tuesday during the 2:30pm time slot. My presentation is an overview of Web Services entitled “XML & Web Services With PHP (An Overview).” The abstract follows:

What is XML? What are Web Services? This talk will answer both of these questions, exploring ways to use the powerful features of PHP 5 to consume and create XML-based Web Services. Topics will include SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST, giving real-world examples and explaining the differences between and benefits of each.

There are many things I’m looking forward to during this conference, including:

Meeting Eli White of digg.com and seeing his presentation on “High Volume PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques”
Meeting and visiting with many #phpc friends (from Freenode IRC) and wearing our t-shirts on Tuesday
Seeing Marcus Boerger’s and Sara Golemon’s “Extending PHP” tutorial.
Aaron Wormus’s talk about migrating to PHP 5
The happy hour sponsored by OmniTI on Wednesday evening
Rooming with Aaron Wormus
Touring the Winchester Mansion on Halloween night
Meeting old friends and making new ones

For more information about the conference, check out the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo Web site. Also be sure to check out the sample PDF program they have posted on their site. It looks pretty slick, and I can’t wait to see the print versions.

5 Comments

gene renner October 29, 2006 at 20:54

I dont think that the same people telling all the same stories on the same event every year again will bring php or the community any step forward ..... But there still is the halloween part ....

Ben Ramsey October 29, 2006 at 21:35

This is my first year attending and speaking at this conference, so I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Did you happen to attend it last year and find it very dry and boring?

I'd like to hear your thoughts on what would actually bring PHP and the community forward, since that is part of what I'm trying to do. If you have an opinion about the direction of the community or ideas as to how to advance the language, then, by all means, let your voice be heard and start working to make it happen. :-)

Mark de Visser October 30, 2006 at 07:09

Request: can you tag this with zendconference2006 as well (see http://blogs.zend.com/2006/.... Thanks, Mark

gene renner October 30, 2006 at 09:30

I was not pointing out to you personally, but the topic looks a bit like a revival from stuff that could be heard 2 years ago on PHP Conferences. That is not related to your topic only, its there allover the php 'scene': The same people seem to (intentionally or not) exchange topics on talks, you find a core group of people in conferences all the time and a lot of people who could say something there dont find a place because the good "conference friends" sit in the team deciding whats up in the next conference (karma-corruption)..... i guess php is at a point where new talent is required and that is not the way to recruit some by iniviting the "PHP Jetsetters" (not pointing to you now) and give them word where other word would be new fresh and interesting.
Whish you luck for your talk, its what i like most about it: Giving away knowhow ;)

p.s. g.r is a pseudo ;)

Keith Casey November 4, 2006 at 19:18

Although Web Services and the stuff to handle them have been around for quite a while - I started them with the Feds in 2001 - it's only now that they're actually starting to see wide acceptance outside of some of the major enterprises and *between* organizations. Throw in a few organizations that are doing amazing things with them and you get a huge interest in them.

For example, the technologies that make up "AJAX" had been avaible for years by the time Gmail came around... but it sparked a huge interest because someone finally saw a useful application.