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 […]

Chan's posted another review of PHP West. Seems we're all in agreement about lunch, Tom Robinson, and the guy from Victoria!

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This past Saturday, I attended the PHP West conference in Vancouver. Presented by OSEVENTS, The conference had a single focus on PHP security and featured some excellent presentations. Overall, it was a well-organized event that kept my attention with interesting and relevent talks.

Bruce Perens was an excellent choice for the keynote speaker. He spoke […]