TEK·X is a great conference event for professional PHP developers. It takes place in Chicago between May 18 and 21 and hosts tutorials and sessions from some of the best speakers in the PHP market.

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Tuesday, 18th May 2010

Sessions
09:00

Bad Guy For a Day - A Websecurity hands-on tutorial

Arne Blankerts

Converting Your MySQL App to NoSQL with MongoDB?

Kristina Chodorow

13:00

Building a Zend Framework application

Rob Allen

PHP Best Practices

Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Lorna Jane Mitchell

JavaScript for PHP Developers

Ed Finkler

PHP Code Review

Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts

Wednesday, 19th May 2010

Sessions
09:00

The Lost Art of Simplicity

Josh Holmes

10:15

Apache Cookbook

Rich Bowen

Anti-spam and anti-gaming

Eli White

Working with Zend_Form

Rob Allen

11:30

Graphs, Edges & Nodes: Untangling the Social Web

Joël Perras

Advanced Date/Time handling with PHP

Derick Rethans

13:30

Large Scale Systems

David Strauss

Subversion in a Distributed World

Lorna Mitchell

Flex + Flickr = Fleckr?

Keith Casey

14:45

PHP: Looking to the future

Scott MacVicar

Getting Git

Travis Swicegood

16:00

Best and Worst Practices Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

Josh Holmes

Code & Release Management

Eli White

SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies

Bill Karwin

17:15

Continuous Inspection and Integration of PHP Projects

Sebastian Bergmann

Desktop Apps with PHP and Titanium

Ben Ramsey

Domain NoSQL: Next Generation Play-Doh

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Thursday, 20th May 2010

Sessions
09:00

10 Developer Trends in 2010

Matthew Schmidt

10:15

Introduction to Testing with Selenium

Arne Blankerts

XDebug

Derick Rethans

A Web Application Framework for People who Hate Frameworks - Lithium

Nate Abele, Joël Perras

11:30

New SPL Features in PHP 5.3

Matthew Turland

Agile in a waterfall world

Jason E. Sweat

MongoDB for Mobile Applications

Kristina Chodorow

13:30

Put Down the Superglobals! Secure PHP Development with Inspekt

Ed Finkler

Streams, Sockets and Filters - Oh My!

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Measuring Your Code

Nate Abele

14:45

Models for Hierarchical Data with SQL and PHP

Bill Karwin

The Art of Message Queues

Mike Willbanks

Tips & Tricks to get the most of PHP with IIS, and the Windows Azure Cloud

Sumit Chawla, Kanwaljeet Singla

16:00

Building Real-Time Applications with XMPP

Travis Swicegood

MySQL 5.5 and Scalability

Ligaya Turmelle

HiPHoP for PHP

Scott MacVicar

Friday, 21st May 2010

Sessions
09:00

PHP Inside

Derick Rethans

Caching with Memcached and APC

Ben Ramsey

Lean Mean PHP Machine

Jason Austin

10:15

Design Patterns

Jason E. Sweat

Open Source Your Career

Lorna Mitchell

Data Visualization: Turning Numbers into Stories

Ryan Stewart

11:30

Replication with MySQL

Ligaya Turmelle

Cross Platform PHP

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Community Roundtable

Michelangelo var Dam, Lorna Jane Mitchell, Rafael Dohms, Ben Ramsey, Keith Casey