ZendCon 2014: The "Must Attend" Event for the PHP Community

Monday 27th October 2014

09:00
20
Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 1)
Workshop by Christian Wenz (3 hour)

Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 1)

9
DB2 and PHP in Depth on IBM i
Workshop by Alan Seiden (3 hour)

DB2 and PHP in Depth on IBM i

Building Your First App with Silex and MongoDB
Workshop by Jeremy Mikola (3 hour)

Building Your First App with Silex and MongoDB

7
Zend Framework 2 Certification Launchpad
Workshop by Rob Allen (3 hour)

Zend Framework 2 Certification Launchpad

Modernizing a Legacy Application
Workshop by Paul M. Jones (3 hour)

Modernizing a Legacy Application

13:30
8
Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 2)
Workshop by Christian Wenz (3 hour)

Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 2)

1
Debugging on Steroids: App-Enable Z-Ray
Workshop by Amit Dar (3 hour)

Debugging on Steroids: App-Enable Z-Ray

5
PHP on IBM i Performance Workshop
Workshop by Alan Seiden (3 hour)

PHP on IBM i Performance Workshop

2
Zend Studio Workshop - Building Apps from A to Z
Workshop by Julien Guittard (3 hour)

Zend Studio Workshop - Building Apps from A to Z

10
Getting started with Apigility
Workshop by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (3 hour)

Getting started with Apigility

9
Advanced Git Skills
Workshop by Lorna Mitchell (3 hour)

Advanced Git Skills

Tuesday 28th October 2014

08:30
21
Opening Keynote
Keynote by Andi Gutmans - CEO and co-founder Zend Technologies in Hall B (1 hour, 15 minutes)

Opening Keynote

10:00
8
Exploring Zend Server Z-Ray
Talk by Zeev Suraski in Hall B (1 hour)

Exploring Zend Server Z-Ray

PHP Toolkit from Zend and IBM
Talk by Tony Cairns, Alan Seiden in Room 203 (1 hour)

PHP Toolkit from Zend and IBM

4
Maturing Continuous Delivery towards MAXOS
Talk by Luis Eduardo Colon in Room 204 (1 hour)

Maturing Continuous Delivery towards MAXOS

Debugging HTTP
Talk by Lorna Mitchell in Room 209 (1 hour)

Debugging HTTP

Dependency Injection in ZF2
Talk by Rob Allen in Room 210 (1 hour)

Dependency Injection in ZF2

11:15 Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase
Talk by Paul M. Jones in Hall B (1 hour)

Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase

7
PHP Security and IBM i
Talk by Mike Pavlak in Room 203 (1 hour)

PHP Security and IBM i

Refactoring using Codeception
Talk by Jeroen van Dijk in Room 204 (1 hour)

Refactoring using Codeception

19
Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP
Talk by Derick Rethans in Room 209 (1 hour)

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP

3
Taking Advantage of PhpStorm IDE and Zend Server Integration
Talk by Joshua Solomin, Mikhail Vink in Room 210 (1 hour)

Taking Advantage of PhpStorm IDE and Zend Server Integration

13:30
21
Big Data 2.0
Keynote by Rod Smith - IBM fellow, Vice President, IBM Emerging Internet Technologies in Hall B (1 hour)

Big Data 2.0

14:45
16
Giving up Control: Inversion of Control for Beginners
Talk by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in Hall B (1 hour)

Giving up Control: Inversion of Control for Beginners

4
What's happening with IBM i and Power Systems
Talk by Alison Butterill in Room 203 (1 hour)

What's happening with IBM i and Power Systems

The continuous PHP Pipeline
Talk by Michelangelo van Dam in Room 204 (1 hour)

The continuous PHP Pipeline

4
ZF2 Modules: Events, Services, and of course, modularity
Talk by John Coggeshall in Room 209 (1 hour)

ZF2 Modules: Events, Services, and of course, modularity

Programmers Can UX Too
Talk by Eryn O'Neil in Room 210 (1 hour)

Programmers Can UX Too

16:00 Deep Dive into Browser Performance
Talk by Ilia Alshanetsky in Hall B (1 hour)

Deep Dive into Browser Performance

DB2 and PHP Best Practices on IBM i
Talk by Tony Cairns, Alan Seiden in Room 203 (1 hour)

DB2 and PHP Best Practices on IBM i

7
MySQL Performance Metrics that Matter
Talk by Morgan Tocker in Room 204 (1 hour)

MySQL Performance Metrics that Matter

3
Zend Studio Today and Beyond
Talk by Michel Gerin, Mickey Hoter in Room 209 (1 hour)

Zend Studio Today and Beyond

API Authentication with OAuth2
Talk by Enrico Zimuel in Room 210 (1 hour)

API Authentication with OAuth2

17:15
18
Writing Maintainable ZF2 Applications
Talk by Evan Coury in Hall B (1 hour)

Writing Maintainable ZF2 Applications

3
Who's Doing What with PHP on IBM i
Talk by Mike Pavlak in Room 203 (1 hour)

Who's Doing What with PHP on IBM i

6
Usability Basics
Talk by Beth Tucker Long in Room 204 (1 hour)

Usability Basics

4
Don't Trust Your Users
Talk by Chris Tankersley in Room 209 (1 hour)

Don't Trust Your Users

4
Containers for Multi-Cloud Apps
Talk by Adrian Otto in Room 210 (1 hour)

Containers for Multi-Cloud Apps

18:05
1
Opening Reception - Sponsored by IBM i
Social Event by Hall A (1 hour, 45 minutes)

Opening Reception - Sponsored by IBM i

Wednesday 29th October 2014

08:30
17
Agile Impact: Innovate While Scaling Agile in Partnerships
Keynote by Andres Angelani - Chief Solutions Officer, Globant in Hall B (1 hour)

Agile Impact: Innovate While Scaling Agile in Partnerships

09:45 PHPNG - a new core for PHP7
Talk by Dmitry Stogov in Hall B (1 hour)

PHPNG - a new core for PHP7

2
Make Mine to Go - an overview of mobile technologies
Talk by Tim Rowe in Room 203 (1 hour)

Make Mine to Go - an overview of mobile technologies

13
Virtualization for Developers
Talk by John Coggeshall in Room 204 (1 hour)

Virtualization for Developers

HTTP and Your Angry Dog
Talk by Ross Tuck in Room 209 (1 hour)

HTTP and Your Angry Dog

7
I've Been Hacked, Now What?
Talk by Beth Tucker Long in Room 210 (1 hour)

I've Been Hacked, Now What?

11:00 Web Frontend, API Backend
Talk by Lorna Mitchell in Hall B (1 hour)

Web Frontend, API Backend

2
Mobilizing your development workflow
Talk by Julien Guittard in Room 203 (1 hour)

Mobilizing your development workflow

Namespaces and Autoloading
Talk by Beau Simensen in Room 204 (1 hour)

Namespaces and Autoloading

Information security in PHP: the CIA triad approach
Talk by Enrico Zimuel in Room 209 (1 hour)

Information security in PHP: the CIA triad approach

Hours-Long Deployments to CD
Talk by Jeff Carouth in Room 210 (1 hour)

Hours-Long Deployments to CD

13:30
13
Keynote: Bitcoin Panel
Keynote by Joel Dietz, Rich Morgan, Luke Stokes in Hall B (1 hour)

Keynote: Bitcoin Panel

14:45
17
Why You Can't Test
Talk by Chris Hartjes in Hall B (1 hour)

Why You Can't Test

2
Complex Sites with Silex
Talk by Chris Tankersley in Room 203 (1 hour)

Complex Sites with Silex

Zend Server: Not just a PHP stack
Talk by Jeroen van Dijk in Room 204 (1 hour)

Zend Server: Not just a PHP stack

Cache Strategies for Web Apps
Talk by Glen Campbell in Room 209 (1 hour)

Cache Strategies for Web Apps

Security Is Not a Feature, It's a State of Mind
Talk by Elizabeth Marie Smith in Room 210 (1 hour)

Security Is Not a Feature, It's a State of Mind

16:00
10
Tuning Nginx and PHP-FPM... The Right Way
Talk by Evan Coury in Hall B (1 hour)

Tuning Nginx and PHP-FPM... The Right Way

REST API's: The Essential things I wish Someone had Told Me
Talk by Ryan Weaver in Room 203 (1 hour)

REST API's: The Essential things I wish Someone had Told Me

3
Optimizing MySQL Queries with EXPLAIN
Talk by Morgan Tocker in Room 204 (1 hour)

Optimizing MySQL Queries with EXPLAIN

Project Triage: What to Do When Everything Hits the Fan
Talk by Eryn O'Neil in Room 209 (1 hour)

Project Triage: What to Do When Everything Hits the Fan

4
PHP from the CLI
Talk by Cal Evans in Room 210 (1 hour)

PHP from the CLI

17:15 Profiling with XHProf
Talk by Ilia Alshanetsky in Hall B (1 hour)

Profiling with XHProf

4
RESTful Web Services with Silex
Talk by Samantha QuiƱones in Room 203 (1 hour)

RESTful Web Services with Silex

Action-Domain-Responder: A Web-Specific Refinement of MVC
Talk by Paul M. Jones in Room 204 (1 hour)

Action-Domain-Responder: A Web-Specific Refinement of MVC

5
Debugging: Past, Present and Future
Talk by Derick Rethans in Room 209 (1 hour)

Debugging: Past, Present and Future

Raiding the MongoDB Toolbox
Talk by Jeremy Mikola in Room 210 (1 hour)

Raiding the MongoDB Toolbox

18:00
1
Exhibit Hall Reception
Social Event by Hall A (1 hour)

Exhibit Hall Reception

19:00
2
Meet the Zend Team
Social Event by Hall B (1 hour)

Meet the Zend Team

Thursday 30th October 2014

08:00
8
An Instagram API in (X) Minutes
Talk by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in Hall B (1 hour)

An Instagram API in (X) Minutes

1
Application Life Cycle Under Control
Talk by Massimiliano Cavicchioli in Room 203 (1 hour)

Application Life Cycle Under Control

Creating Models
Talk by Rob Allen in Room 204 (1 hour)

Creating Models

3
HAProxy - scale with open source
Talk by Ingo Walz in Room 209 (1 hour)

HAProxy - scale with open source

Async PHP with React
Talk by Jeremy Mikola in Room 210 (1 hour)

Async PHP with React

09:15
15
Web Acceptance Testing For Grumpy Programmers
Talk by Chris Hartjes in Hall B (1 hour)

Web Acceptance Testing For Grumpy Programmers

5
Designing Service Architectures for the Cloud
Talk by Samantha QuiƱones in Room 203 (1 hour)

Designing Service Architectures for the Cloud

Automated Infrastructure and App Management
Talk by Clark Everetts in Room 204 (1 hour)

Automated Infrastructure and App Management

0
Building Apps for Tomorrow's Connected Devices in 30 Minutes or Less!
Talk by Rod Smith, Mark Vanderwiele in Room 209 (1 hour)

Building Apps for Tomorrow's Connected Devices in 30 Minutes or Less!

Static Sites with Sculpin
Talk by Beau Simensen in Room 210 (1 hour)

Static Sites with Sculpin

10:30 Models and Service Layers; Hemoglobin and Hobgoblins
Talk by Ross Tuck in Hall B (1 hour)

Models and Service Layers; Hemoglobin and Hobgoblins

Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, and You
Talk by Jeff Carouth in Room 203 (1 hour)

Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, and You

Lexing and Parsing - the Beginner's Guide
Talk by Elizabeth Marie Smith in Room 204 (1 hour)

Lexing and Parsing - the Beginner's Guide

PHP Components and the Great Framework Kumbaya
Talk by Ryan Weaver in Room 209 (1 hour)

PHP Components and the Great Framework Kumbaya

Using an IDE like a Pro
Talk by Kaloyan Raev in Room 210 (1 hour)

Using an IDE like a Pro

11:45
8
Go To There and Back Again
Keynote by Douglas Crockford - JavaScript Architect, PayPal in Room 210 (45 minutes)

Go To There and Back Again