The final day of the conference already! Today, I attended the following sessions:

PHP Web Services, presented by Ilia Alshanetsky | slides here
Separating Content and Design, presented by Daniel Udey
Bring Your Own PEAR, presented by Lukas Smith | slides here

Having seen Ilia speak yesterday, I knew I was in for some serious learning! His presentation covered […]

On this second day of the conference I attended the following sessions:

Upgrade Your Development to Web 2.0, presented by Amy Hoy | slides here 
Managing PHP Performance, presented by Ilia Alshanetsky | slides here 
Rich User Interfaces with Ajax, presented by Gilbert Hyatt | slides here 

I loved Amy's presentation style: very real and human, but also demonstrative […]

I really enjoyed this first day of the php | works conference! The day started with a good keynote by Rasmus Lerdorf. Some of the notes I took included: "key in the creation of PHP was flexibility", "common criticism of PHP is based on the fact that some developers stray from good programming logic because […]

I'm sitting in the airport in Calgary, AB, on my way to Toronto for the php | works conference. I recently had my iBook souped up for the trip, and I'm happy to see that the AirPort card works totally transparently. There is a WiFi network here, but I'll refrain from paying by the hour […]

I came across Writely today, an online word processing application. Like web mail, here we have an application that's traditionally run on the desktop migrating to an online app. It's another signal of the movement toward the Web 2.0 infrastructure, where we'll see the Internet play a much more significant role on the desktop. Google's […]

The former development team for the Mambo content management system announced the new name for their new Mambo fork project last night: Joomla! I raised an eyebrow when I first saw this, but I'll give it a chance to grow on me. (I liked "Tango" better.) I'm not certain if the name is "Joomla!" or […]