How to run an enterprise PHP Shop

Jim Plush Panasonic

In this session we'll take a look at how to successfully manage and lead PHP teams. We'll cover finding and interviewing PHP developers, the processes involved with producing products (build, qa, release, continuous integration, and development processes), building the team, team standards (coding, documentation, unit testing, reviews), providing ongoing education, and preventing developer burn out. We will also touch on the balacing act between process and productivity.

To Eclipse or not to Eclipse - that is the question

Roy Ganor Zend Technologies

In this presentation Roy Ganor, the PHP Development Tools (PDT) project lead @ Eclipse.org is going to present the strengths and weaknesses of Eclipse by presenting real world PHP development examples. At the end of this presentation he will demonstrate how to extend the basic functionality and extension points (be aware, Java is involved!!!) to support enhanced features on top of PDT.

Premature Optimization Mistakes

Ilia Alshanetsky Centah Inc.

One of the thing that many people want to have is fast code as it allows handling of more data/clients with less resources, saving money and improving your overall efficiencies. However, premature optimization can often result in broken code, enormous amount of wasted time and missed deadlines. This talk will not only explain the common errors, but also offer easy performance solutions.

It Works on Dev

Marcel Esser CROSCON

Patching, debugging, and refactoring live applications is difficult. The idea for this talk is to present methods and tools that developers can use to manage their deployment and patching process, including tips on deployment, debugging, pushing updates, and setting up and using proper monitoring and event logging for their applications - to reduce downtime and close tickets faster.

Mazda: Advanced web services and PHP: strengths & flaws

Olivier Lépine Quatrain Technologies

2009 has seen the launch of a brand new cars plate management system in France (web services based on WS-* exts & java). Among the 36 carmakers on the market, only Mazda decided to develop with PHP on its IBM i servers (AS/400). This session describes how PHP helped Mazda connect its IT to the Interior Ministry web services, what still lacks, what the versatility of PHP and ZF made possible.

Mastering OpenXML Documents with PHP

Aaron Wormus HedgeCo Networks

There are many ways to create Excel spreadsheet. In the past developers had to resort to a bag of dirty tricks to accomplish this task. Microsoft's work on standardizing the Excel format using OpenXML has opened the gates for developers to easily create powerful Excel documents. This talk outlines the basics of OpenXML & SpreadsheetML. We use PHP-based tools to create valid Excel2007 documents.

PHP at the Heart of Mainstream IT

Andi Gutmans Zend Technologies Inc.

These are exciting times for PHP and Zend. The economic downturn put pressure on IT budgets but at the same time accelerated the adoption of open source. Is it time to declare PHP as an equal-rights citizen in mainstream corporate IT? What about enterprise Java? How will Cloud computing change the way we build and manage PHP applications? And how does Zend Play into the changing landscape of web applications? Join Andi Gutmans, Zend’s co-founder and CEO for this keynote kickoff of ZendCon.

A big PHP project from both sides

Gaylord Aulke Zend Technologies Petra Ruehl Deutsche Telekom

Petra and Gaylord will give an insight into a thrilling real life PHP enterprise project that has been under development for almost 2 years now. Zend has helped Deutsche Telekom to set up a media management platform for their customers. Petra will talk about the background of the project and about the motivation to choose PHP and Zend products. Gaylord will describe the technical view and supplier perspective of this project.