http://www.php.net/conferences/ The PHP scripting language web site http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-01-20-1 conference DevConf 2012 in Moscow, Russia on Jun 9 - Jun 10 DevConf is the ultimate meeting place for russian-speaking web-developers, combining several language-specific conferences under one roof. This year DevConf will include the following sections: DevConf::PHP();DevConf::Perl();DevConf::RoR();DevConf::Python();DevConf::Javascript(); Each section will feature several talks from the active contributors/authors of the language. Among the invited speakers are Derick Rethans (XDebug creator), David Soria Parra (active PHP contributor), Andrey Aksyonov (author of Sphinx), Alexander Makarov (one of the main contributors to Yii), Sergey Petrunya (of MariaDB fame), Ilya Alekseev (OpenStack Nova contributor) and many others, see more details on the official website. 2012-04-27 http://www.php.net/index.php#id2012-02-24-1 releases The PHP development team would like to announce the 8th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! . This is the 8th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The 7th and 8th release candidates focus on fixing critical bugs and security vulnerabilities, including: A buffer overflow in htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() (bug #60965). Improving the max_input_vars configuration directive to check nested variables. A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found in the NEWS file. We've received a lot of feedback that has helped to improve the upcoming release of PHP 5.4.0. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected by taking the time to test this release candidate against your code base and reporting any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. The next release candidate will be released on March 1. 2012-02-24 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-02-09-1 cfp Please note: This call for papers closes on 12 April, 2012.Wanting to share your experiences with a larger PHP community? Please submit your name and topic ideas (even if you are only suggesting topics and not wishing to actually present them) - each topic requires a separate submission, submit as many as you like:http://speakers.northeastphp.orgWe hope to have topics and hands-on workshops in four tracks: Core PHP topics (Intermediate to Advanced levels)Web development related topicsTraining track (workshop style)UX related topics This event is co-organized by 3 User Groups in the Northeast of North America, namely: Atlantic Canada, Vermont and Area, and Boston. 2012-04-04 http://www.php.net/index.php#id2012-01-24-1 releases The PHP development team announces the 6th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!. This is the 6th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test them carefully and help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS The next candidate will be released on Feb 2. 2012-01-24 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-01-20-1 conference ConFoo 2012 in Montreal, Canada on Feb 29 - Mar 02 ConFoo is the unique web conference in Canada gathering different tech communities in one place. find working solutions for your day to day challenges;discover new tools that increase your productivity;network with people from some of the world’s biggest companies;160 presentations focusing on core competencies improvement; Don't miss this great opportunity and register today! Also check out our two training days around PHP, HTML5, Symfony2 and security topics right before the conference. 2012-01-19 http://www.php.net/index.php#id2012-01-07-2 releases The PHP development team announces the 5th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!. This is the 5th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. We got a lot of feedback that helped us to improve the upcoming PHP version. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS The next and probably last release candidate will be released in 14 days. 2012-01-07 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2012-01-07-1 conference The PHPBenelux Conference is ready for its third edition and takes place January 27th & 28th in Antwerp (Belgium). We're very proud to have a great lineup this year and some awesome social events. All information about the conference can be found on our conference website http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/2012. There are some tickets still available, get them at http://shop.phpbenelux.eu. 2012-01-07 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2011-12-23-1 conference Ibuildings is proud to organise the sixth Dutch PHP Conference on June 8 and 9, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 7. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks. Website: http://www.phpconference.nl/ 2011-12-23 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2011-11-17-1 cfp The Italian PHP user group GrUSP is pleased to announce the 9th edition of the Italian phpDay conference, taking place on May 18th and 19th, 2012 in Verona. We will show new development traits, best-practices and success cases related to quality, revision control, test-driven development, continuous integration and so on. There are also talks about design, project management, agile and various php-related technologies. phpDay is the first historic Italian conference dedicated solely to PHP development, technologies and management. It is aimed to IT managers, developers and innovators. Each year it renews the opportunity to link to new business partners. The call for papers is open and will run until Feb 28th 2012. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.phpday.it 2011-11-17