php|tek 2009
19 - 23 May 2009 at Chicago, IL

Great introduction to MVC, nice look at CodeIgniter

I'd seen Lee's presentation before, but the new demos were great. The Zend_Rest_Server point should be replaced with Wade's views on implementation of REST with AMF support using ZF. For Wade's presentation, I think using syntax highlighted source code in slides limited to relevant areas would improve the presentation's pace. He seemed a bit "green" as a speaker, but his presentation was informative.

Awesome keynote by Andrei, lots of internal jokes, lots of humor, but tons of information. The future of PHP looks good!

this was an awesome session. We really went through some really ugly pieces of code, but in some situations it was good to get a different opinion on certain techniques, definitively something to look over and rethink some stuff

Have to agree, its an awesome talk for the beginners who do not know where to go yet, but for more weathered users, we need the extra "something" to go beyond. But a great session to remember stuff you should not forget.

This was a very entertaining keynote. Lots of humor, but also good information being given out. Wasn't too much 'new' information if you are a regular conference attendee or watch what's on the web. But otherwise a great overview. Also good perspective of the history of PHP, and where PHP will be going.

Great talk! Lots of info about scaling through MySQL, which is really where you've got to scale. Eli clearly knows his stuff, and anyone who missed this talk missed out. Well done, Eli.

Fantastic talk. Some technical problems but overall the material was amazing.

Paced a bit quickly. Fleshing it out for ZF newbies may help fill the full time slot. Having syntax highlighted code on slides (see http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/210-Syntax-Highlighting-for-Technical-Presentations.html) rather than browsing source files with less might have made it a bit easier for reading and pointing out relevant blocks as the presentation progressed. Would be interested in seeing the same goals accomplished with Zend_Tool. Nice enthusiasm.

I think Cal Evans can even make Zend Framework an interesting topic... oh wait, this was on ZF! ;) And it was interesting for sure. Interesting to see the way ZF can handle the CLI now, and great to see the ways Cal uses it.