Another edition of php|tek has come and gone and this year some very amazing topics came into view. The conference itself was once again a great experience, great people, incredible speakers, lots of activities and incredible hack-a-thons and unconference sessions.
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02 Jun 2011
04 Oct 2010
Consider the past 10 years and answer the question: What has changed?
In technology, Windows 98 SE became Windows 7, Ubuntu helped spread Linux, and Mac OS X extended its users base. The mobile world exploded after the introduction of the iPhone. Web Design gained importance, social networks arose, and rich media found its way to the masses via YouTube. Google became the god of Internet, Apple gained a church of fanatic followers and a legion of enemies. Flash was born, became a symbol of the future, and today is being stoned by HTML5 standards. Web became 2.0, and then people realized how wrong it is to give it a version number. The Web is dead. Long live the Internet. But it will reborn, as soon as people realize how wrong it is to claim its death.
Once again php|architect hosted the php|tek conference, a yearly event held in Chicago. Tek has a reputation of being one of the most community-centered conferences, and true to its reputation this year’s conference promoted a variety of social networking activities alongside the usual conference sessions. The presence of various key players in the PHP ecosystem (Core Developers, Community Leaders, Products leaders and various representatives and evangelists from leading companies) was definitively a highlight for me.
31 May 2009
Rafael Dohms, one of SWAT’s PHP experts and a leading proponent of PHP in Latin America attended the 2009 php|tek conference in Chicago. This conference is hosted by MTACon, the company behind php|architect magazine, one of the most influent PHP publications in the world. Rafael tells the story of the conference in this post.
