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Zend PHP Conference and Expo

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 at 03:27:09 GMT
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Zend has just released the full schedule for their PHP Conference and Expo taking place this October.

It's going to be quite a bit different than the typical PHP conference, because it appears to cater to big businesses (and PHP developers employed by big businesses). It will be interesting to see how PHP is being used in the "enterprise" - it's an area where PHP's role is rarely publicized.

When people question whether PHP is suited for large-scale development, Yahoo is often mentioned in the retort. Michael Radwin will be speaking about PHP at Yahoo, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say. Michael is an excellent speaker, and Yahoo is the busiest web site in the world, so he always has very pragmatic advice about what works and what doesn't in the world's most demanding environment.

I'm also interested in the panel discussion attempting to answer the question, "What Is Scalability?" The panel is being moderated by Joyce Park, who was fired for blogging after disclosing that Friendster had switched to PHP in order to resolve their performance problems. I blogged about the ensuing discussion and was Slashdotted for it.

There are many other exciting speakers lined up, several of which you're sure to recognize.

I hope to see you there.

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Zend PHP Conference and Expo was posted on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 at 03:27:09 GMT.

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1. KC said:

I'll be there and although I did not make the presentation schedule, they have requested my presentation to be recorded and made available online. I'm a core developer of dotProject and work heavily with SugarCRM, so this should be fun.
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