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I will be speaking at the upcoming PHP|tek conference which will be taking place in Chicago on the 16th-18th of May.

I will be presenting two talks. The first talk will be on Search Engine Optimisation and Website Accessiblity. In this talk we will be examining several websites through the eyes of a search engine and a screen reader.

The second talk will be an extension of the talk I gave at ZendCon on Upgrading to PHP5 with Style. This presentations skips some of the extremely technical aspects of PHP5 and focuses on the new aspects and features available in PHP5. Both of my talks will be based on experience and knowledge gained while working with the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team.
This will be my first PHP|Architect conference, and I’m looking forward to meeting up with some of the other distinguished speakers who will be presenting as well.

This was my first Zend Conference and I enjoyed it immensely. The topic was “Creating Advanced PHP Applications”, and the two talks that I presented were “Upgrading to PHP5 with Style” and “Planning a PHP5 Rewrite”.

This year ZendCon was held in the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California. After driving down from LA with Jon Bauer, I called ahead to make sure that we meet up with some of the other guys for the obligatory pre-conference dinner.

As always, for regular speakers the conferences are more about meeting up with other developers than the conference sessions themselves. This being my first US-based PHP conference I was happy to finally meet up with some of my friends, many of whom I’m communicated with over the last few years but hadn’t had the opportunity to meet in person. One of the highlights of this conference was the extensive expo floor and the wealth of companies that were exhibiting.
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