Day 2 - Session 1

There's a beginning keynote this morning about how PHP leaders are transforming high-impact applications.... We'll soon see what exactly this means..

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Started keynote... He's talking about how wired we have been for the past few years.

Keith Kacey (sp?) noted for organizing UnCon.

If you answer your phone, you're going to be ridiculed... That's that...

CEO Harold Goldberg walks on stage.

• Largest ZendCon ever. Thanking everyone in the PHP community for making ZendCon possible.
• Comparing ZendCon/PHP innovation potential to ancient technologies such as an Eel/Fish trap, honey-bee ranches, orchard sprayer, etc founded in this area in California.
• 3 main take-aways:
  
  • PHP is Poised for Widespread Enterprise Adoption.
  • YOU are central to PHP's success.
  • Together, We're making History.
• Examples:
  
  • Kargo Mobile Telephony replacing Java w/PHP. Did anyone doubt this happening?
  • PHP is faster, uses less resources, and allows faster roll-outs.
  • New site, all in ZendFramework, with 400% capacity, at an undisclosed amount of less hardware.
  • Tons more, all with basically the same story.
• Top choices to use w/AJAX: PHP!
• Estimation of 40% of PHP jobs moving to Enterprise level development.
• More and more jobs are PHP related.
• Declaration that Zend Certs can demand 25-35% more compensation.
  
• Surpassed 8 million raw downloads of ZendFramework (from v1 to v1.6)
• New Zend Framework Certification officially announced.

Why is PHP thriving so well?

• ZendFramework
• Eclipse
• PHP Advancements
• Support for the most well-used OS (Windows, Linux, MacOS, IBM-i)
• Tooling:
• phpMyAdmin
• Eclipse
• phpUnit
• etc
• Key Tech:
• XML
• MySql
• Oracle
• Flex
• Ajax
• Dojo
• etc
• PHP Applications:
• Magento (new eCommerce site built completely in ZF)
• SugarCRM
• WordPress
• NEW ZEND STUDIO FOR ECLIPSE (6.1) ANNOUNCED
• Best Practices and reuse for PHP
• Powerful testing

More stuff about how people are using PHP, specifically with IBM i5, and a new ZendCore for IBM i5 platform.

Adobe is helping PHP implement AMF support... YAY!!!!!

Stream Energy (my company) just got mentioned... WOOT BITCHES!

OK.. end of Keynote.... Nice way to finalize it all up...

- Spaz