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PHP Vancouver Conference February 12 – 13, 2007

mali — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:56:10 +0000

Start: Feb 12 2007 - 8:00am
End: Feb 13 2007 - 5:00pm
Timezone: Canada/Pacific
Update: Registration is online (link).

The Vancouver PHP conference will be hosting core PHP developers including the founder Rasmus Lerdorf who works at Yahoo, experts from France and Germany, and also developers from Zend, MySql, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, php|architect, eZ systems to mention a few companies.

Topics for presentation include web services, unicoding, rapid application, drupal module development, rich internet applications, open sourcing and licensing.

Registration for the Vancouver PHP Users Conference is now online.

Regular fee for attendance is $150 CDN.

As this conference is volunteer driven, it can afford to charge a low entrance fee, as it brings together the brightest minds in the PHP community from around the world.

You can get more information here.

A video is worth a million words

mali — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:46:36 +0000

The PHPClasses site is launching a new feature that allows class authors to submit tutorial videos about their packages, in order to provide greater interest to the package users.

This post also explains how to use screencasting programs to produce and distribute videos that capture slide presentations and live demonstration of class packages or other software running in a desktop machine, without the need to use video cameras or expensive hardware.

It is also explained how to submit tutorial screencast videos to the PHPClasses site, and use video section links to provide good navigation to browse each section of a tutorial video.

You can get more information here.

PHP on Windows: FastCGI Technical Preview 2

mali — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:29:40 +0000

The IIS team just released the second technical preview of the FastCGI component for IIS. This allows PHP developers to deploy PHP applications on Windows with greater performance and reliability. This second release address several compatibility issues and brings us another step forward in providing a great experience for hosting production PHP applications on Windows.

You can get more information on IIS.net.