Fall lineup

It's conference season again, here's my schedule:

Code Works - San Francisco - Sep 23

I'm only doing the first city of the Code Works tour which happens to be in the region of the US I live in, so that's convenient. Here I'll be presenting an updated version of PHP 5.3: Hot or Not which went down pretty well in Chicago earlier this year at php|tek '09. This hour-long overview of the much anticipated next release of PHP will run through the laundry list of new features, language constructs, and APIs with examples of use, mis-use, and hopefully a two-way discussion of what features are most important to developers.

Later that same day, I'll blow the dust off the Navigating Streams presentation I gave in Mörfelden three years ago at IPC2K6. There's a lot more to do here as things have changed somewhat in the past three years, and the old slide deck is kinda boring. Expect a fresh rewrite of this run-through on PHP's filesystem layer and all the little goodies that have been hiding underneath it all this time which you might not have known existed.

PHPNW09 - Manchester, UK - Oct 11

For reasons unrelated to PHP, I kind of need to be... not in California for awhile. The 6,000 miles between here and England sounds like a good start, so when I mentioned this in IRC a couple nights ago, Lorna (one of the phpnw organizers) very quickly batted eyes and twisted my arm into volunteering for a speaking slot. Given the short term, I offered to just reuse one of the presentations I'll be giving at Code Works (since the audience isn't likely to overlap much). Long story short, my planned visit through the Peak District, then onto Yorkshire will be bisected by a diversion through Manchester where I'll deliver PHP 5.3: Hot or Not a second time.

ZendCon - San Jose, CA - Oct 21

Last, but not least, I'll be returning home to Silicon Valley for the fifth installment of Zend Con. Here, Eli's asked me to give the über-compressed one-hour version of my presentation on PHP Extension Writing. Frankly, I don't like trying to take what is about 8 hours of content and shove it into the spandex biker shorts of a one hour session. As usual, I'll do my best, and having done this topic at least once/year for the past four years my best isn't half bad, but be sure to buckle in when you arrive. Once I get started talking on this, I won't stop until the next speaker kicks me out, or someone raises a hand (and please, do ask questions as I go, everyone wins when you raise your hand).