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

My last set of photos from PHP North West 2011 are the odd ones out, the ones that didn’t really fit into any of the other sets.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my photos from the conference, and maybe – just maybe – they’ve made you think about going to a PHP conference somewhere near you in the near future.

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

No conference – especially one as well-run as PHP North West – can happen without the small army of folks who give up their time to organise and staff the conference.

I’m afraid that I didn’t manage to photograph everyone involved on the day (sorry!) but here’s to everyone who made PHP North West 2011 possible.

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.

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

The audience is a key part of any conference, and each year the PHP North West conference manages to attract more and more people back as it establishes its reputation for being one of the very best PHP conferences (and indeed, one of the very best UK tech conferences) around.

New on the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast is an interview with David Rogers, the organizer for the Orlando PHP User Group (Florida).

I’m exceedingly pleased to be speaking at the PHP Community Conference next month.

I’ll be speaking about two projects I’ve been working on for a while WonderProxy, and XHProf.

Apart from these being new talks, asking people to speak about their passions and projects, rather than something interesting they’ve stumbled upon as of late.

Last night I gave a presentation on CouchDB at the New York PHP User Group.

I talked about the basics of CouchDB, its JSON documents, its RESTful API, writing and querying MapReduce views, using CouchDB from within PHP, and scaling.

The talk was broadcast and recorded on Ustream.

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.

July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.

For those who saw the “Micro Optimize This!” talk, you can download the slides here. For those looking for the “Five Tips To Make Good Object Oriented Code Better” slides, those are available here.

I was lucky enough to be in town for the inaugural Nashville PHP User Group as resurrected by Ben Ramsey last week.

The presentation by Josh Holmes was interesting though over-long. My favorite part of these things (as always) is meeting the other attendees.

We retired to a nearby bar after the meeting, where [...]