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Conference Schedule

In-depth tutorials — Tue, May 15

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

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 12:00 Zend PHP 5 Certification Crash Course (AM)
Paul Reinheimer
Test Driven Development
Jason Sweat
High Performance PHP
Ilia Alshanetsky
12:00 01:00 Lunch
01:00 04:00 Zend PHP 5 Certification Crash Course (PM)
Paul Reinheimer
Extension Writing
Sara Golemon
Securing PHP Applications
Ilia Alshanetsky
Day #1 — Wed, May 16

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 Opening Keynote
Rasmus Lerdorf
10:00 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 11:15 Unicoding with PHP 6
Andrei Zmievski
Writing Maintainable PHP Code
Jeff Moore
PHP, Accessibility, and Search Engines: Enemies no longer!
Aaron Wormus
11:15 11:30 Break
11:30 12:30 Building PHP based Rich Internet Applications
Mike Potter
12:30 01:30 Lunch
01:30 02:30 httpd Power Tools
Rich Bowen
Services Made Simple with PHP
Caroline Maynard
Dude, Where's My Used Car?
Adam Trachtenberg
02:30 03:30 PHP and Mail: Best Practices
Wez Furlong
DB Design for PHP Developers
Mac Newbold
Testing PHP Applications with PHPUnit (A)
Sebastian Bergmann
03:30 03:45 Coffee break
03:45 04:45 Apache Error Documents with PHP
Mac Newbold
PHP Features You Didn't Know Existed
Eli White
Testing PHP Applications with PHPUnit (B)
Sebastian Bergmann
04:45 05:45 Web Security by the Book
Christian Wenz
Querying XML: PHP + DB2 9 pureXML
Kitman Cheung
PHP Security by Example
Chris Shiflett
Day #2 — Thu, May 17

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 Exposing Hidden PHP Secrets
Derick Rethans
Building Distributed Web Applications
Jason Rexilius
Top 15 Ways to Kill MySQL Performance
Jay Pipes
10:00 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 11:15 APC @ Facebook
Brian Shire
Dependency Injection in PHP
Jeff Moore
PDO
Wez Furlong
11:15 12:15 Cryptography, Keeping a Secret
Sara Golemon
Programming with Microsoft AJAX
Joe Stagner
Everything but the Code
Davey Shafik
12:15 01:45 Working Lunch
01:45 02:45 Upgrading to PHP 5 with Style
Aaron Wormus
The Truth About Sessions
Chris Shiflett
The Standard PHP Library
Marcus Boerger
02:45 03:00 Coffee break
03:00 04:00 PHP and Ajax: Web 2.0 Beyond the Buzz
Christian Wenz
Database Meets OOP
Lukas Smith
What Can PHP Learn From Ruby on Rails?
Chris Hartjes
04:00 05:00 PHP, Remote XUL and jQuery
Jeff Griffiths
Applications Build in a Snap using Zend Framework
John Coggeshall
PHP Security Pitfalls
Ilia Alshanetsky
Day #3 — Fri, May 18

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00 Microsoft Tools and Platforms for PHP
Joe Stagner
10:00 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 11:15 Introduction to mod_rewrite
Rich Bowen
Help, I Found a Bug in my Code!
Derick Rethans
Design Patterns
Jason Sweat
11:15 12:15 Lock Your Database Application!
Lukas Smith
Exceptional PHP
Jeff Moore
Introducing Phar
Marcus Boerger
12:15 12:45 Closing Keynote
Marco Tabini

Please note: the schedule is subject to change without notice.

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