The team at php[architect] are once again going to run php[tek], their premier professional PHP conference. The conference will take place on May 19-23, 2014 in Chicago, USA, and will feature:

Keynote
Talk
Workshop
Social
Event Related

Monday, 19th May 2014

Sessions
09:00

Jump Start PHP Training

php[architect]

Tuesday, 20th May 2014

Sessions
09:00

Build your first Symfony2 application

Stefan Koopmanschap

Making an iOS client for your REST API

Garrison Locke

Grumpy Unit Testing Bootcamp

Chris Hartjes

14:00

Hacking Sites for Fun and Profit

David Stockton

Introduction to Laravel

Collin Schneider

Introduction to Databases

Jeremy Mikola, Davey Shafik

Wednesday, 21st May 2014

Sessions
09:00

Inside the Tech Challenges of Wikimedia

Terry Chay

10:30

PHP 5.6 and beyond: because incrementing major versions is for suckers

Adam Harvey

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP

Derick Rethans

Introduction to OAuth

Matt Frost

Accelerating Web Applications with Varnish

Samantha Quiñones

12:00

How to Hack Conversations

Greg Baugues

Adaptive Delivery - The other responsive

Josh Trout

How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application

Stefan Koopmanschap

Introduction to October CMS

Collin Schneider

14:00

What to expect from Drupal 8

Larry Garfield

Building scalable PHP applications using Google’s App Engine

Ian Barber

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

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Introduction to Zend Framework 2

John Coggeshall

15:30

Basic Intrusion Detection with PHPIDS

Greg Wilson

Why You Can't Test

Chris Hartjes

Grokking Regex

David Stockton

Becoming a GoPHPer

Paddy Foran

17:00

Contributing to Core: My Journey to Add array_column() to the PHP Core

Ben Ramsey

Virtualization for Developers

John Coggeshall

JavaScript's Difficult Concepts

Jeff Carouth

Threading in PHP

Stefan Willkommer

Thursday, 22nd May 2014

Sessions
09:00

How to Get There

Larry Ullman

10:30

Async PHP with React

Jeremy Mikola

Modern PHP

Ben Ramsey

You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's Interface

Eryn O'Neil

From SQL to noSQL

Derick Rethans

12:00

Recursion: Making Big Problems Smaller

Jeremy Lindblom

Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions

Andrew Cassell

Static Sites with Sculpin

Beau Simensen

Adventures in Contract Development

Tim Lytle

14:00

Functional PHP

Larry Garfield

Schemas for the Real World

Carina C. Zona

How To Be A Great Developer

Ed Finkler

Composer: Stability and Semantic Versioning Demystified

Beau Simensen

15:30

HHVM in 2014

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Building Modules for Drupal 8

Brant Wynn

No Modes – The Future of all Web Applications

Andrew Cassell

Working with difficult people

Laura Thomson

17:00

Groking Browser Performance

Josh Holmes

Stop Multiplying by 4: Practical software estimation

Chuck Reeves

Building Web Service Clients with Guzzle

Jeremy Lindblom

Two Factor Authentication and You

Chris Stone

Friday, 23rd May 2014

Sessions
09:00

Exploiting New MySQL Features

Dave Stokes

Socket Programming with PHP

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Faster Web Development with Yii 2

Larry Ullman

Mocking Dependencies in PHPUnit

Matt Frost

10:30

Git and Github: Working Effectively on a Team

Jeff Carouth

Scaling PHP in the real world!

Dustin Whittle

Shell Revolution

Chris Stone

Stop! Hammer time.

Josh Trout