Presented by Ilia Alshanetsky.

Ilia presented a number of different caching approaches and talked about their pros and cons:

Complete Page Content CachingThis can be implemented simply: Create a cache() function that tries to read in a cache file. If the file is too old or non-existant, call your init_cache() function, which turns on output ( Read more... )

Presented by Anant Jhingran and Mike Smith from IBM

Evolution of Enterprise Application Development1970s: Applications were a hodgepodge of data and logic ( Read more... )

This session, presented by Ilia Alshanetsky, covered the most common PHP security mistakes, as found by searches on Google Code Search.

You can get the specific search terms and examples from Ilia's website once he gets the conference slides online, but this is a quick run-down of the issues:

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)User supplied HTML is ( Read more... )

Presented by George Schlossnagle, OmniTI Computer Consulting ( Read more... )

Hopefully, this will be useful to other conference attendees, if any of you are reading this ( Read more... )

Presented by Chris Anderson, Wired

Attendees received a free copy of Chris Anderson's The Long Tail book ( Read more... )

High Volume PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques

Presented by Elliott White III of digg.com

Introduction
Performance is a problem, but scaling is always a bigger problem, and you can't always throw hardware at a problem quick enough.

Standard SolutionMany PHP servers behind a load balancer, and many mysql slaves all talking to a single master ( Read more... )

The panel was moderated by Steve O'Grady (Redmonk), and its participants included Bill Hilf (Microsoft), Tim Bray (Sun), Mike Olson (Oracle), Mårten Mickos (MySQL), and Anant Jhingran (IBM ( Read more... )

For all the Mac laptops I'm seeing at the conference, it's a little surprising that I'm not seeing any other Macs show up in Rendezvous Browser. I wonder if the wireless isn't rebroadcasting Rendezvous traffic?

The keynote was delayed for a bit due to microphone problems, and there were a few ongiong issues (e.g. lack of a remote contro for the slide presentation). Most of the presentation was given by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, the co-founders of Zend ( Read more... )