Schedule: PHP sessions

PHP’s phenomenal success brings a focus on quality and speed, highlighted by Yahoo! and Facebook’s innovations in PHP performance. Learn about these technologies, and how PHP applications can be improved by optimization and QA, how to secure PHP applications, and manage codebases for the long term.

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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
Location: E143/E144
Tags: php, qa, quality_assurance
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 11 ratings)
In this tutorial, Sebastian Bergmann, a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects and creator of PHPUnit, imparts comprehensive knowledge and experience about testing and quality assurance in PHP-based software projects. Read more.
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8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
CakePHP 1.3 Concept to Deployment
Location: D135
Tags: cakephp, php, framework
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Graham Weldon (Cake Development Corporation)
Average rating: **...
(2.40, 5 ratings)
A complete application build from concept through design, modelling, development and deployment in a three hour session. Lead by a Core CakePHP developer, this session is a combination of CakePHP overview of capabilities as well as an introduction to improvements and changes in the recently released CakePHP 1.3 beta. Take this opportunity to learn rapid development from a CakePHP developer Read more.
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10:40am Thursday, 07/22/2010
HipHop for PHP
Location: Portland 251
Tags: php, compilers, cplusplus
Haiping Zhao (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.44, 9 ratings)
HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. Read more.
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11:30am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Micro Optimize This!
Location: Portland 251
Tags: php, performance
Brandon Savage (Mozilla)
Average rating: ***..
(3.88, 8 ratings)
Replacing double quotes with single quotes makes your PHP applications faster, right? This talk covers that and more, with advanced optimization techniques and beginner pitfalls. Read more.
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1:40pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
PHP in the 21½th Century
Location: Portland 251
Tags: php, humor, the_future, ugly_people_in_tight_jumpsuits_the_horror_the_horror
Luke Welling ([Redacted])
Average rating: ***..
(3.36, 14 ratings)
Future Luke has traveled back from the year 2050 to give past Luke a beating for leaving bad code behind. Find out what you can do now to prevent future you from hating yourself, what happens to PHP over the next 40 years, and get an opportunity to ask somebody from 2050 when we will finally get our flying cars and why everybody in science fiction versions of the future has to wear a jumpsuit. Read more.
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2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
PHP: Process Thyself
Location: Portland 251
Tags: php, compilers
Andrei Zmievski (Analog)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 4 ratings)
This talk is about a new extension that allows PHP source code to be modified by other PHP scripts pre-compilation. This allows for many things, from code verification to macro processing. Read more.
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4:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
PHPUnit Best Practices
Location: Portland 251
Tags: php, phpunit, testing, best_practices
Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Average rating: ***..
(3.70, 10 ratings)
This session, given by the creator of PHPUnit, will shine a light on best practices when it comes to testing PHP code. Read more.
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5:20pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Developing Easily Deployable PHP Applications
Location: Portland 251
Tags: operations, php
John Mertic (SugarCRM)
Average rating: **...
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Talks about how to develop PHP applications that can be deployed on many different platforms with ease. Read more.
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