Welcome to the 2009 edition of ZendCon - The PHP Conference. This year's conference will be held October 19th - 22nd at the San Jose Convention Center and is being co-presented by S&S Media. It is the largest gathering of the PHP Community and the premier PHP conference, allowing all attendees to mingle with decision makers, core developers, prominent community members, and so many more.

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Monday, 19th October 2009

Sessions
00:00

Zend PHP 5 Certification Boot Camp (Part I)

Christian Wenz

Writing Maintainable PHP Code

Jeff Moore

Introduction to Zend Framework

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

Sebastian Bergmann

Essential PHP Security

Arne Blankerts

Zend PHP 5 Certification Boot Camp (Part II)

Christian Wenz

Zend Framework Certification Refresher & Overview

Rob Allen

Ajax Strategies For Zend Framework

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

PHP Code Review

Sebastian Bergmann

PHP on the i5

Mike Pavlak

Tuesday, 20th October 2009

Sessions
00:00

PHP 5.3 = Awesome!

Ilia Alshanetsky

Planning for Synchronization with Browser-Local Databases

Eric Farrar

PHP - Faster And Cheaper. Scale Vertically with IBM Power Systems

Sam Hennessy

Develop at the Speed of Thought

Roy Ganor

Introduction to using CouchDB with PHP

Shahar Evron

Xdebug - PHP developer's swiss-army knife

Derick Rethans

Zend Core on IBM i - Security Considerations

Tony Cairns

Frontend Caching - The "new" frontier

Helgi Thormar Thorbjoernsson

I18n with PHP 5.3

Stas Malyshev

Getting a website out of the door

Rob Allen

PHP and IBM i - Database Alternatives

Erwin Earley

Mastering OpenXML Documents with PHP

Aaron Wormus

Enterprise-Class PHP Security

Barry Austin

Cool PHP Objects Sleep on the Couch

Sebastian Bergmann

Zend Framework for Enterprise PHP on IBM i

Alan Seiden

Seven Steps to Better OOP Code

Stefan Priebsch

Taming the Deployment Beast

Chris Cornutt

Mazda: Advanced web services and PHP: strengths & flaws

Olivier Lépine

Digital Identity: OpenID and Information Cards

Rob Richards

Best Practices for PHP and Oracle Database

Christopher Jones

Continuous integration and release management for PHP developers

Douglas Butler, Mark Chaimungkalanont

Developing on the Cloud

Panelists

PHP on the Web and Desktop

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Premature Optimization Mistakes

Ilia Alshanetsky

Cloud Computing: The Hard Problems Never Go Away

Doug Tidwell

Wednesday, 21st October 2009

Sessions
00:00

State of PHP 6

Andrei Zmievski

It Works on Dev

Marcel Esser

Zend Studio Tips and Tricks

Roy Ganor

Caffeinated PHP (Interfacing with Java)

Kevin Schroeder

Using Zend Framework and Symfony together

Fabien Potencier

APC & Memcache the High Performance Duo

Ilia Alshanetsky

Zend Server - A Guided Tour

Shahar Evron

Time = Money

Derick Rethans

Security By Design

Arne Blankerts

PHP and the Cloud

Ivo Jansch

Application diagnosis using system tools and Zend Server

Kevin Schroeder

The Future of CakePHP

Nate Abele

Architecting Your Models

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Getting Git

Travis Swicegood

Zend Server - Scalability, Performance & Caching

Shahar Evron

Using the Zend Engine 3 API

Sara Golemon

Building Desktop RIAs with JavaScript and PHP

Ed Finkler

The state of SOAP in PHP

David Zuelke

Core PHP: How it's made

Stas Malyshev

Advanced Data Communication with the Flash Platform

Wade Arnold

Standing out in the Crowd

Kirrily Robert

A Series of Fortunate Events, or how we learned to stop kicking the cable

Scott Baker

MySQL Server Performance Tuning 101

Ligaya Turmelle

Extending Zend Framework & Extending with Zend Framework

Ralph Schindler

Cloud Computing with VMware

Akhil Sahil

Thursday, 22nd October 2009

Sessions
00:00

Zend_Tool: Practical use and Extending

Ralph Schindler

Right Where You Belong: The PHP Community

Chris Cornutt

To Eclipse or not to Eclipse - that is the question

Roy Ganor

RIA Problems You Never Knew Existed

Kevin Hoyt

PHP and Platform Independence in the Cloud

Wil Sinclair

How to run an enterprise PHP Shop

Jim Plush

Design Patterns for PHP developers

Cal Evans

Server-Side, PHP-Generated AJAX

Mike Ho

SPL to the Rescue

Elizabeth Marie Smith

Authorization with OAuth

Rob Richards

Pro Tips for Zend Framework and Dojo

Peter Higgins

Automated Deployment Techniques With Phing

Daniel Cousineau

Best Practices High Performance and Scalable PHP Applications

Majed Itani

PEAR2 and Pyrus, the look ahead

Helgi Thormar Thorbjoernsson

Framework Shootout

David Zülke, Ed Finkler, Nate Abele, Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Fabien Potencier