Conference Schedule

All Conference packages include:

Please note: access to the in-depth tutorials (including lunch and breaks) on May 19 requires the purchase of a tutorial-inclusive package.

In-depth tutorial day: May 19, 2009

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 12:00

MVC Development in PHP

Ed Finkler

Web Application Security Boot Camp

Christian Wenz

Caching for Cash (AM)

H. Þ. Þorbjörnsson and S. MacVicar

12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 16:00

Practical SVN for PHP Developers

M. W. O'Phinney and L. Mitchell

PHP Code Review

S. Priebsch, S. Bergmann, A. Blankerts

Caching for Cash (PM)

H. Þ. Þorbjörnsson and S. MacVicar

Day #1: May 20, 2009

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 09:30

Opening Keynote: The Future of PHP6

Andrei Zmievski

09:30 09:45 Break
09:45 10:45

Zend Framework and the CLI

Cal Evans

Ajax Testing: Tools and Techniques

Christian Wenz

Highly Scalable Web Applications

Eli White

10:45 11:00 Break
11:00 12:00

Streaming XML

Rob Richards

Of Haystacks and Needles

Derick Rethans

RIA Development with PHP and Adobe Flex

Lee Brimelow and Wade Arnold

12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 14:00

MySQL Server Performance Tuning

Ligaya Turmelle

Understanding XPath

Arne Blankerts

PHP on IBM i: What the Heck is That?

Mike Pavlak

14:00 14:15 Break
14:15 15:15

SPL to the Rescue

Elizabeth M. Smith

Dissecting an MVC Application

Stefan Priebsch

PHP and MySQL on IBM i - New Stacks and New Solutions

Erwin Earley

15:15 15:30 Break
15:30 16:30

Getting it Done

Wez Furlong

Untestable Code

Sebastian Bergmann

Zend Core on IBM i: Advanced Management

Mike Pavlak

16:30 16:45 Break
16:45 17:45

Security Centered Design

Chris Shiflett

ORM in the PHP World

Maggie Nelson

Alternative Databases

Scott MacVicar

17:45 19:00

Unconference Sessions

TBA

Day #2: May 21, 2009

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00

High Performance APC

Brian Shire

Exceptional PHP

Jeff Moore

PHP 5.3 - Hot or Not?

Sara Golemon

10:00 10:15 Break
10:15 11:15

Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and JS in AIR

Ed Finkler

PHP 5.3, The Best PHP for Windows Yet

Hank Janssen

K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid)

Derick Rethans

11:15 11:30 Break
11:30 12:30

Linux-Fu for PHP Developers

Lorna Mitchell

Seven Steps to Better OOP Code

Stefan Priebsch

Design Patterns in PHP

Jason Sweat

12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:00

Organizing your PHP Projects

Paul M. Jones

PHP Database Application Architecture for Scalability and Availability

Chris Jones

The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development

Eli White

14:00 14:15 Break
14:15 15:15

Everything You Need to Know About mod_rewrite

Rich Bowen

Bend SQL to Your Will With EXPLAIN

Ligaya Turmelle

A Guide to Using and Understanding the Community

L. Mitchell, S. Koopmanschap

15:15 15:30 Break
15:30 16:30

No Really, It's All About You

Chris Cornutt

Taking it All Offline with SQL Anywhere

Eric Farrar

Coping with the Cyber Monday

Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson

16:30 19:00

Unconference Sessions

TBA

Day #3: May 22, 2009

Start End Track #1 Track #2 Track #3
09:00 10:00

The Power of Refactoring

Stefan Koopmanschap

Android Applications using PHP

John Coggeshall

Out with Regex, In with Tokens

Sean Coates

10:00 10:15 Break
10:15 11:15

Working with Microformats

Sara Golemon

A Manager's Guide to Telecommuting

Cal Evans

Make the Most of HTTP In Your Apps

Ben Ramsey

11:15 11:30 Break
11:30 12:00

Ending Keynote

Terry Chay

12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 15:00

Unconference Sessions

To Be Announced

Please note: the schedule is subject to change without notice