Sessions

Conference topics

Conference topics will include sessions in the following areas:

• Architecture & Design
  Best practices for designing web based applications.
• Expanding Horizons
  New concepts and technologies important to web development professionals.
• Lifecycle Best Practices
  Product lifecycle, versioning tools, managing development teams, best practices for publishing code.
• NoSQL / Alternative Stores / Search
  Techniques and technologies for storing, retrieving and manipulating data.
• PHP Development
  Performance, security, session management, and more...
• PHP on IBM i
  Leveraging the power of PHP on IBM i.
• Server/Operations
  Configuring LAMP stacks, tweaking web server performance, using alternative Web Servers with PHP, databases.
• SQL
  Tips, tricks and techniques for dealing with SQL databases.
• Zend Framework
  Latest trends and ideas in Zend Framework development.

Tutorials

Conference tutorials are designed as intensive 3 hour sessions for in-depth and accelerated learning. All tutorials will be presented on Monday, November 1, the day before the conference begins. Separate registration is required for conference tutorials.

UnConference Sessions

The ZendCon UnConference has been a popular part of the conference in prior years. The UnCon was designed to present a forum for attendees who share an interest in PHP topics.outside of the scheduled sessions.  UnConference submissions will be accepted beginning September 1, 2010.