Conference Schedule

Some important information about our schedule:

PHP-themed talks are designed primarily with PHP developers in mind.
Web Development talks are language-independent and are suitable for both PHPers and Pythonistas
Python-themed talks are designed primarily with Python developers in mind.
You are free to attend any talk at any time of the day—there is no obligation to sit in a particular track (or in a particular talk for its entirety).
Lunch, coffee and power breaks are included in the attendance fees for all days.
Free Internet WiFi Internet access will be available on all conference days.
Access to the tutorial day (November 12) requires the purchase of the Tutorial Add-on attendance fee.

In-depth tutorial day: November 12, 2008

Start	End	Track #1	Track #2	Track #3	Track #4	Track #5
09:00	12:00	Hack This App Damien Seguy	Caching for Cash (AM) Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson and Scott MacVicar	Everything You Need to be Your Own DBA (AM) Morgan Tocker	Building Web Applications with TurboGears Mark Ramm	Django for PHP Developers Travis Cline
12:00	13:00	Lunch
13:00	16:00	Testing the PHP Way: PHPT Travis Swicegood	Caching for Cash (PM) Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson and Scott MacVicar	Everything You Need to be Your Own DBA (PM) Morgan Tocker	Building Web Applications with Grok Brandon Craig Rhodes	Writing AJAX Applications on Google App Engine and Google API's Noah Gift

Day #1: November 13, 2008

Start	End	Track #1	Track #2	Track #3	Track #4	Track #5
09:00	10:00	Beyond the Source: Growing Your Community Kevin Dangoor
10:00	10:15	Break
10:15	11:15	Of Lambda Functions, Closures and Traits Sebastian Bergmann	Realizing the Full Potential of Your Rich Internet Applications Danny Dura	Image Optimization for the Web Stoyan Stefanov	An Introduction to web2py Massimo Di Pierro	Decorators are Fun! Matthew Wilson
11:15	11:30	Break
11:30	12:30	SQLite3 Scott MacVicar	Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and Javascript in AIR Ed Finkler	Performance Tuning MySQL Morgan Tocker	Understanding WSGI Mark Ramm	Getting Started with Concurrency with MultiProcessing and Threads Jesse Noller
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	14:30	Make 'Em Talk! Joe Stagner	Managing the Software Life Cycle of PHP Applications Stefan Priebsch	The Future is Not Yet Widely Distributed (intro to Git) Travis Swicegood	URL Mapping with Routes Mike Naberezny	Rapid Testing with Minimal Effort Using py.test Holger Krekel
14:30	14:45	Break
14:45	15:45	Map, Filter, Reduce - In the Small and in the Cloud Sebastian Bergmann	Rich UIs and Easy Ajax with Dojo and Zend Framework Matthew Weier O'Phinney	Security-Centered Design: Don't Just Plan for Security; Design For It Chris Shiflett	Rich Client Web Applications with TurboGears 2 and Dojo Kevin Dangoor	GUI applications with XULRunner, PyXPCOM and PyDOM Shane Caraveo
15:45	16:00	Break
16:00	17:00	PHP Code Auditing Damien Seguy	Simple Scaling Every Developer Should Know Sara Golemon	Front-End Optimization Using Y!Slow Gerard Sychay	Designing an Adaptable, Multi-Environment Application Server in Python Noah Fontes	Using Python As A Systems Administration Platform Noah Gift
17:00	17:15	Break
17:15	18:15	Microsoft Unplugged Glen Gordon	The CodeIgniter Framework Ed Finkler	You Look Like You Could Use Some REST! REST and the Resource-Oriented Architecture Explained Ben Ramsey	IronPython: Python on .NET and in your Browser Michael Foord	Microcontroller Simulation with Python Mike Naberezny

Day #2: November 14, 2008

Start	End	Track #1	Track #2	Track #3	Track #4	Track #5
09:00	10:00	Building Rich Internet Applications with MS AJAX Library and Microsoft Silverlight on PHP Glen Gordon	End-to-end Testing with Selenium Stefan Priebsch	2009 Web Tech Accessibility Eric David Benari	Python Interpreters Reloaded Holger Krekel	Using Sphinx and Doctests to Provide Robust Documentation Chris Perkins
10:00	10:15	Break
10:15	11:15	Multilingual Content Management Louis-Philippe Huberdeau	PEAR2 & Pyrus, the Look Ahead Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson	Mobilizing the Web D. Keith Casey, Jr.	ZODB: The Most Underappreciated Library in Python Kevin Dangoor	Exploring Artificial Intelligence with Python Jacob Taylor
11:15	11:30	Break
11:30	12:30	Time=Money Derick Rethans	Enterprise PHP Ivo Jansch	Extending Existing Web Services with SMS and XMPP Sam Keen	Why Use Grok? Brandon Craig Rhodes	Using Python with LDAP Jon Miller
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	14:30	Optimizing PHP Applications for a Managed Web Host Dallas Kashuba	Get Soaked: Streams, an In-Depth Look Davey Shafik	Ajax Patterns Christian Wenz	Agile Development with SQLAlchemy and Python Testing Tools Chris Perkins	Easy build and deployment automation with Paver Kevin Dangoor
14:30	15:30	Test Drive Your Development Process Derick Rethans	PHP 5.3: Hot or Not? Sara Golemon	Sphinx: Search for Everyone Else Robert Swarthout	Desktop Applications with Python and Dabo Ed Leafe	Elixir: Object-Relational Mapping Made Easy Jonathan LaCour
15:30	16:30	Happy Hour! Join us for a drink!
16:30	17:30	Confessions of a Serial Coder Jay Pipes

Please note: the schedule is subject to change without notice