php|tek 2009: The community in action
- June 1, 2009
This year I was abel to attended the 2009 php|tek conference in Chicago. This conference is hosted by MTACon, the company behind php|architect magazine, one of the most influent PHP publications in the world. php|tek is a unique event in its overall “feel” and purpose - for those that read my post on ZendCon'08 you may be able to pickup this difference yourselves. Tek is a community oriented event, as opposed to ZendCon which is much more aimed at companies. Is this good you ask? Yes, its perfect, it in no way falls short of the content in ZendCon, but on the plus side it gives one many more opportunities to mingle and meet the central PHP Core Developer Team, and most importantly, it inspires attendees to work with and give back to PHP.
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php|tek09: Day #3
- May 22, 2009
The beeping alarm begun another exciting day at php|tek09.
My usual breakfast buddies were around once again for a great meal to start it out right. The first session was High performance APC with Brian Shire from Facebook, and it was really interesting to see the APC improvements and what is in their roadmap, influenced by Facebook and their needs, working as a boost for APC development, defintively gonna kick our testing server into apc mode to run some tests. Parallel to this session Sara Golemon gave a PHP 5.3 session.. and from what i hear, those slides are golden! go find them! (i’ll post a link if i find them myself)
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php|tek09: Day #2
- May 21, 2009
Ok, i might be a little “DUI” as I write this, but bear with me, i can get it done.
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php|tek09: Day #1
- May 20, 2009
Tutorial day at php|tek! The day begun with a PHP Breakfast, where I met guys like Matthew Weier O’Phinney and saw the guys from yesterday as well. After that I moved on to registration and got my tek swag on!
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php|tek09: Dia #1
- May 20, 2009
Dia de tutoriais na php|tek! O dia começou com um café da manha regado a PHP onde pude falar com muitas pessoas do dia anterior e conhecer o Matthew Weier O’Phinney. Depois um rápido registro e la vamos nós para os tutoriais.
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- May 19, 2009
First day in Chicago started out early, like 5 o’clock early! Getting to the hotel was a breeze after getting in touch with MTACon’s assistance hotline (thanks guys!), yah.. its a big airport.
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- May 19, 2009
O primeiro dia em Chicago começou cedo, as 5h. Do aeroporto pro hotel foi uma viagem tranquila, após ligar para o excelente supporte da MTACon que prontamente me apontou pro transporte do hotel, sim.. o aeroporto é enorme!
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