“All things must come to an end.”
–Chaucer, 1374.
The last day of ZendCon is always bittersweet, and gazing at the Santa Clara Convention Center through our lens of Twitter, it looks like this year was no different. New friends pledging to stay in touch, old friends waving goodbye, and as always, lots of happy developers giving shoutouts to the crew at Zend that worked so hard to make putting on ZendCon so easy.
Goodbye
Bye, #zendcon. Already looking forward 2 next year (well, after a little rest). Thanks for all the fish, I mean, the elePHPants.
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— David Weinraub (@papayasoft) October 26, 2012
Sitting in SJC getting lunch. Had a great time at #zendcon, thanks for letting me talk @zendcon! Hope to be back next year
— Chris Tankersley (@dragonmantank) October 25, 2012
Thanks!
And that’s a wrap. #Zendcon is done for 2012. Thanks for coming!
— ZendCon (@zendcon) October 25, 2012
#zendcon attendees.Please make sure to thank my advisory board @skoop @ralphschindler @mkherlakian @cspruck and @joedevon
— Kevin Schroeder (@kpschrade) October 25, 2012
Also, make sure to thank Andrea Ginsburg.She works more hours than there are in a day to make sure you have a good #zendcon experience.
— Kevin Schroeder (@kpschrade) October 25, 2012
Finally home from #zendcon. Great time at the conference big thanks to organizers & zend for making it happen
— Ilia Alshanetsky (@iliaa) October 26, 2012
Dear @zend and @zendcon teams: Thanks for all the hard work, I enjoyed myself big time! #zendcon
— Stefan Koopmanschap (@skoop) October 25, 2012
Awesome #Zendcon! Thank you to all the speakers, esp @derickr, @weierophinney, @lornajane and the @openshift #hackathon
— Nik (@nicktacular) October 25, 2012
…and more green ElePHPants!
“Ohhhh I chugged that toooo fast! Goooood party!” #elephpant twitpic.com/b7fgaf #zendcon
— Ralph Schindler (@ralphschindler) October 26, 2012
Green #elePHPant family – cant wait to get back home to mine!#ZendCon twitter.com/zeevs/status/2…
— Zeev Suraski (@zeevs) October 26, 2012
#zendcon elephant hanging out in the #hootsuite office courtesy of @shiunken twitter.com/mikehaugland/s…
— Mike Haugland (@mikehaugland) October 25, 2012
Awesome gift from @zend and #zendcon!!! Thank you!!! #communityworks twitter.com/DragonBe/statu…
— Michelangelo van Dam (@DragonBe) October 25, 2012
The conversion is now complete! /cc @skoop #zendcon #zf2 twitter.com/zeevs/status/2…
— Zeev Suraski (@zeevs) October 25, 2012
Everyone was getting into the action, even those not able to attend. The PHP powered API powerhouse Mashery tweeted this offer to all newly minted Zend Certified Engineers.
New ZCEs! Send @mashery your Zend Yellow Pages certification link & get a free #PHP Nerd Merit Badge via snail mail! #zendcon
— Mashery (@Mashery) October 25, 2012
It’s over…but it’s not
The banners have all been packed away, all the ElePHPants have found new homes, and it is easy to think that ZendCon is over. You can relive some of the high-points by watching the recordings of the keynote speeches. You can find all the recordings over at the “Live Streaming from ZendCon 2012″ page. Catch-up on the ones you missed to review the ones you enjoyed.
Whether you were in attendance at ZendCon ’12 or not, we hope to see you next year at ZendCon ’13.




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