Mike Naberezny writes about the talks he’ll be giving and other events he’ll be attending in the next couple of months:

DC PHP Conference (Oct 18-20)

• PHP [Intranet] Web Services: is a new talk that is geared to fit into the conference’s theme of 'integration with the federal government'. PHP is a glue language for integrating web services and legacy applications on intranets and there are a host of libraries available to help. Mike will explore some of the options and talk about the unique aspects of developing PHP-based services behind corporate firewalls.
• Getting Started with Zend Framework: will give developers a jumpstart on developing with the Zend Framework. A brief introduction will include installation, an architectural overview, comparing it with alternatives, and explaining its process and online resources. Mike will dive into some of the components through examples with sample code. He has been around the Zend Framework longer than most so feel free to bring all of your questions for Q&A and code for possible hacking sprints.

Zend/PHP Conference 2006 (Oct 30 - Nov 2)

• Best Practices of PHP Development: it will be a three-hour tutorial session. Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Mike had a good time speaking at the last Zend conference that they are doing it together again this year with a new tutorial session. They have been working as professional PHP developers for many years and this is their chance to share some of the PHP development and deployment tricks learned along the way.

Other Events

Since starting Mike’s own consulting business, he’s also been having a good time doing a bit of Ruby on Rails development in addition to his usual Python and PHP programming and training. "As I dip into Ruby more, I’ll be attending the Pragmatic Studio (Oct 9-11) and also the Rails Edge Conference (Nov 16-18). If you’re headed to any of these events, contact me if you’d like to meet up or if you have any requests for the talks", Mike concludes.