php|tek 09

May 26th, 2009

(photo by Marco Tabini)

I had the pleasure to attend php|tek this year in Chicago. This conference was organized by php|architect.

I attended some very interesting presentations such as "Dissecting an MVC Application", "Alternate Databases", "Of Haystacks and Needles" and "Seven Steps to Better OOP Code". I enjoyed the Pecha Kucha presentations. These were very short presentations on topics not always related to PHP. I liked the one by Scott MacVicar and Andrei Zmievski on spelling.

I also met many interesting people with whom I intend to stay in touch. Wade Arnold, author of Zend_AMF, should be expecting feature requests and patches from DevBots. There were many interesting discussions around best practices between the presentations.

I was also able to catch up with my international friends that I don't get to see very often. We celebrated Chris Shiflett‘s birthday by going to a Peruvian restaurant and enjoying a great variety of beer at the Map Room, in the company of Andrei Zmievski, Sean Coates and Scott MacVicar. I enjoyed the event so much that I stayed an extra day to visit Downtown Chicago with Stefan Priebsh, Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts and David Zuelke. I posted some pictures to Flickr.

The only negative comment that I would like to share is the fact that WiFi was very unreliable during the event. I ended up paying to use the hotel's WiFi every day to stay in touch with the office.

My next stop is ZendCon in San Jose, California.

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