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Zendcon is around the corner. I was at Adobe MAX last week and so I was debating whether or not I would stay the weekend in San Francisco. I’m not much of a night life person, or a partier. In fact, I usually prefer to work behind the scenes (kind of odd given my role next week). However, what I love to do is drive. Long, lonely highways or crazy windy roads. I love both. However, I live in Texas. We have plenty of long, lonely highways but nothing that’s really crazy windy (as in wind-y). So, if I ever stay in San Francisco over a weekend I like to take my car out and drive some of the roads out here. There are some great roads in the bay area that feed the crazy, windy person in me.

I had just tweeted something about Zendcon; how there were so many good sessions that it sucks that attendees have to choose between so many good ones. I mean, look at the sessions that immediately follow the keynote on Tuesday.

Integrating PHP with RabbitMQ – Alvaro Videla

A new approach to object persistence in PHP – Stefan Priebsch

The State of SOAP in PHP – David Zuelke

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP – Derick Rethans

Documents, documents, documents – Matthew Weier O’Phinney

I just got my copies of my book “You want to do WHAT with PHP?” today. During my conversations with MCPress, my publisher, I had asked for 3 copies to do a social media promotion and they agreed. I posted that I would be giving away 3 copies on Twitter and got a whole bunch of “I WANTS”. So I asked my publisher for more copies to give away and they agreed to another 6. So that is a total of 9 copies I have avaialble to give away.

This marks the Friday prior to the start of the Adobe MAX conference. I was asked to speak on the topic of integrating Flash and PHP and I will be.

I’m working on an example of mobile detection with the new Zend Framework 1.11 beta that was just released when I came upon an interesting problem. That problem is; how do I debug requests coming in from the mobile phone? The answer is actually relatively easy. I’m doing this using a Zend Framework application, but the concepts that you’ll see here can be used quite easily across any type of framework.

Tis the season for Zendcon. I am going to be giving a talk at Zendcon called “Do You Queue”. It will be about doing asynchronous computing in PHP. In order for me to gather some data I posted a twtpoll poll. The response has been pretty good. However, there have also been several misunderstandings as well. A few of them: