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OSCON Day 3 : The Party is in Full Swing

Here we are with our day 3 wrapup of OSCON. You won’t want ot miss this one. Details of the commings and goings, the sessions and the parties, maybe even a picture or too. The weather has really cooled off but inside the convention center, things are heating up. Come on inside where it’s cool and I’ll give you the details.

OSCON Day 2 : Picking Up Steam

The tutorials are over and down with, the first officially “Free as in beer” party is over so this conference is officially underway. The weather is much better than Monday. If you want more than the weather report though, you’ll have to click the magic [ more ] link.

George Schlossnagle Presents talk On High Performance PHP

George Schlossnagle of OmniTI gave an interesting talk at OSCON titled “High Performance PHP”. If you didn’t make it to OSCON, here’s a 30 second version of his 3.5 hour talk. (Ok, I may have left out a point or two)

OSCON Wrapup Day 1 : And So It begins

Day 1 of O’Reilly’s OSCON is in the can. Read on for my thoughts, links to pictures, all the good stuff that goes into a wrapup.

Live From OSCON!

Greetings from Portland! This week Portland is the host of a sweltering heat-wave and an Open Source fest both at the same time. I will be here all week and posting the ups and downs of O’Reilly’s OSCON. (There’s really no up to the heat-wave) Watch this space for something interesting!

Zend Framework Browser Plugins

Some enterprising Zend Framework contributors have hacked together a couple plugins for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Ralf Eggert has created a sidebar to allow easy access to commonly used links, as well as a search module. From this idea, Richard Thomas was inspired to create a plugin to search the framework wiki and mailing list using Firefox's built-in search box. They both take two or less clicks to install, so what are you waiting for?

QEDWiki, IBM, and "Situational Applications"

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with one of IBM’s forward thinkers, Dan Gisolfi. Dan and I talked about IBM, PHP, the Zend Framework and an exciting emerging technology IBM is working on called QEDWiki. Click more to read the whole article and even see a couple of screen shots.

Microformats, PHP, and hKit

Microformats are creating a lot of buzz these days and Drew McLellan wants to make sure that PHP developers aren’t left out. I recently interviewed him about microformats, PHP and his new toolkit, hKit, that glues the two together.

PHPDEVELOPER.ORG ADOPTS THE ZEND FRAMEWORK

Chris Cornutt, the developer behind phpdeveloper.org recently launched a major overhaul of his site. In addition to the sleek new look and feel, the underlying code was also rebuilt on top of the Zend Framework. I recently caught up with him for an interview. Click through to read more.