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Mary Meeker tells Web 2.0 attendees: It's a global, mobile, e-commerce-enabled world.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

This year, many of the sponsors were here not to drum up new business, but to hire new talent, continuing a trend from PHPUK11 earlier in the year.

Sponsoring a conference is cheaper than paying traditional recruiters, with no shortage of motivated attendees to talk to.

I'm very excited to hear that the PHPUnConference Europe (@phpuceu on twitter) is coming to Manchester on February 19th and 20th!

So excited, in fact, that I've rushed out and bought my ticket (for a whole £40, that's a good investment in my opinion).

The event brings together the PHP community from across Europe to an unconference where the speakers are the presenters, and really anything goes!

In a new post to his blog Keith Casey, a speaker on the CodeWorks conference tour, has recapped some of his experiences as a part of the five city tour.

The slides for my talk on "APC & Memcache the High Performance Duo" are now available here: Barcelona_APC_MEM2010.pdf.

Thanks to all the attendees for listening and asking questions, hopefully there are a few converts to APC/Memcached resulting from this talk .

Just finished my talk on the "Hidden Features of PHP" at the PHP Barcelona conference. First time me giving this particular talk, which I think (hope) went pretty well.

Big thanks to all the attendees for being there, especially those to braved the large crowd and asked questions.

The slides from the talk are now available online and can be downloaded at: barcelona_2010_hidden_features.pdf

Just like last year I will again be present this year at the Symfony Day Cologne, which is organized by my friends at Interlutions.

Last year was a huge success with many attendees, a wonderful list of speakers, and a great party afterwards.

This year will be at least just as good, and is slightly extended: I will be doing a full-day symfony workshop not just on the Symfony Day but also on the day after.

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Finally managed to upload my slides from my ConFoo PHP 5.3 == Awesome! talk.
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Thanks for all the attendees, especially those who asked questions

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