DC PHP Conference

The 2007 DC PHP Conference is right around the corner, and they have posted the Keynotes and Plenary Sessions today. There are a number of great speakers, running the gamut from performance to application design to interfaces to coding style. The sessions that seem particularly interesting to me are API design in PHP by David Sklar of Ning, Beyond SQL and ORM by Mike Ho of the Qcodo framework and Drinking from the firehose: building scalable SOA websites with PHP by Glenn Campbell of Yahoo.

It’s great to see PHP being used in enterprise areas, when not long ago it wasn’t taken too seriously by “real” programmers. As the computing world becomes ever more interconnected, the development speed and dynamic typing of PHP gets more and more valuable every day. I won’t be surprised if a slew of PHP books on these topics start to complement the nuts & bolts type books available today.

If you haven’t yet registered, you can get a discounted pass as a guest of the DC PHP Developers Group for $250; quite a deal for all the learning and networking to be had.