Once again tek13 returns to Chicago. This annual conference brings the PHP Community together for a week of learning, collaboration, and networking.

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Tuesday, 14th May 2013

Sessions
09:00

Overview of Symfony2 for Beginners

Andreas Hucks

PHP Extension Writing

Sara Golemon

Zend Framework 2 Tutorial

Rob Allen

13:00

A Hands-on Introduction to Writing Unit Tests Using PHPUnit

Harrie Verveer

Git Makes Me Angry Inside

Emma Jane Hogbin Westby

Caching and Tuning Fun for High Scalability

Wim Godden

Wednesday, 15th May 2013

Sessions
09:00

Practicing Failure

Harper Reed, Dylan Reed

10:15

PHP 5.5: The New Bits

Davey Shafik

Building Web Apps from a New Angle

Pablo Godel

Beyond the Bikeshed

Emma Jane Hogbin Westby

Debugging for Beginners

Rob Allen

11:30

Finding Your Way: Understanding Magento Code

Ben Marks

Top 10 Developer Security Misconceptions

Chris Cornutt

PHP and Node.js Together

Chris Tankersley

Service Oriented Architecture Panel Discussion

Shaun Farrell, Jason Austin, Garrison Locke

13:30

Performance Perpetrators: Profiling for Professionals

Derick Rethans

Code Reviews: The 'Secret' to Building Quality Software

Patrick Schwisow

Creating PHP Cloud Applications

Cory Fowler

What Symfony Components can Do for You

Andreas Hucks

14:45

Creating Mobile Applications with PHP and Symfony2

Pablo Godel

Web Acceptance Testing for Grumpy Programmers

Chris Hartjes

Keeping it Small: Getting to Know the Slim Micro Framework

Jeremy Kendall

Beyond PHP : it's Not (Just) About the Code!

Wim Godden

15:00

Encryption, It's For More Than Just Passwords

John Congdon

16:00

Scaling PHP with HipHop

Sara Golemon

Mentoring Developers

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Database Version Control without Pain?

Harrie Verveer

Thursday, 16th May 2013

Sessions
09:00

WordPress is Everywhere: Extreme Portability as a Double-Edged Sword

Andrew Nacin

10:15

OpenStreetMap for the Web

Derick Rethans

There's an Extension for That

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Whats New with MySQL 5.6

Ligaya Turmelle

Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Ed Finkler

11:30

Five Tools for Better PHP Development

Lorna Mitchell

Drupal Development Tips

Chris Tankersley

C.R.E.A.M (Cache Rules Everything Around Me)

Thijs Feryn

Basic Intrusion Detection w/ PHPIDS

Greg Wilson

13:30

A Mobile Mindset: Attaining Responsiveness

Arbi Arzoumani

Beyond the Basics: Security with PHP

Chris Cornutt

Building Testable PHP Applications

Chris Hartjes

Why PHP makes me sad: phpsadness.com

Eric Wastl

14:00

30 topics in 30 minutes

Eric Wastl

14:45

Traits and Horizontal Design

Mike Stowe

Ten Things to Make Your MySQL Servers Faster and Happier

Dave Stokes

Your Code Sucks, Let's Fix It

Rafael Dohms

16:00

DO ALL THE THINGS!!!

Patrick Schwisow

MySQL HA, Recovery and Load Balancing

Davey Shafik, Ligaya Turmelle

PHP 102: Out with the Bad, In with the Good

Jeremy Kendall

Regular Expressions (Beginner to Expert)

Eric Wastl

17:45

Detecting and Defending Fraud in eCommerce: A True Story

Brant Baisley

Friday, 17th May 2013

Sessions
09:00

Best Practices for the Sole Developer

John Congdon

Composer for Busy Developers

Rafael Dohms

Embedded PHP with RasPi

Arbi Arzoumani

10:15

API First

Ben Ramsey

<?php echo 'Hello Worl…Ooo, shiny!: How to deal with distractions

Sean Prunka

Pains and Gains of PHP Upgrades

Lorna Mitchell

11:30

Being a Good OSS Contributor

Jeremy Mikola

UA Testing with Selenium and PHPUnit

Michelangelo van Dam

A Tale of Scaling with the Cloud, till the Cloud Couldn't Scale.

Vid Luther