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Here are the slides we have so far from the speakers at PHP North West 2009. This post will be edited to add the remaining slide decks as we get them.

Saturday: Main Schedule

SPL: Not a Bridge Too Far – Michelangelo Vam Dam

Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World – Lorna Jane Mitchell

The beauty and the beast – API documentation with phpDocumentor – Bastian Feder

Optimising Your Frontend Performance – Thomas Weinert

Getting a Website Out of the Door – Rob Allen

Speeding up the Snail and Making Drupal Scale – Marcus Deglos

Building an Anti-CMS (and how its changed our web team) – Michael Nolan

Making Your Life Easier: Xdebug (PDF) – Derick Rethans

Integrating Symfony and Zend Framework – Stefan Koopmanschap

Sunday: Informal Schedule

About Tokens and Lexemes – Ben Scholzen

Introduction to OOP for PHP – Rick Ogden

We’ve got things happening in a few different places for PHP North West this weekend, so here’s a post to help everyone find their way around!

Times and Locations

Friday night, 7-11pm
The Lass O’ Gowrie
36 Charles Street
Manchester
M1 7DB

Saturday – 9am til late (official program ends 18:30)
Manchester Conference Centre
Weston Building
Sackville Street
Manchester
M1 3BB

Sunday Morning 9am til 1pm
Museum of Science & Industry
Liverpool Road
Castlefield
Manchester
M3 4FP

Map of the main event locations

View PHPNW09 Venues in a larger map

Finding us from Manchester Picadilly

For those coming by train, the conference centre is only a few hundred yards from the rear entrance on Whitworth St of Manchester Picadilly train station (the main station in Manchester). To get out the right exit, you need to find and come down some escalators:

Out through the door and round the corner to your right:

Then diagonally across the junction,

You should now be heading in the right direction, basically its under the raised railway bit and the conference centre is 300 yards or so, its a tall building.

Getting to MOSI on Sunday

Wherever you are coming from, start by finding the “shard of glass” building – its the Hilton Hotel

From there, cross Deansgate, going this way:

Keep walking – you’re looking for this:

Turn right and you’ll see the entrance. The conference facilities are well signposted and they are in the main building – we are in the Cardwell Auditorium from 9am onwards.

At PHPNW09 we’ll be using joind.in to give feedback to our speakers on their sessions. We used this last year and the response was rather good, and we’re hoping to do better again this year. Your feedback lets the speakers and organisers know what you enjoyed and what you didn’t – so make yourself heard!

The event page is at http://joind.in/event/view/70, register on the site to say you are coming to the event and add your comments and ratings as each session ends. Speakers – add the URL of your talk to your slides to remind your audience to leave feedback for you.

Looking forward to seeing the feedback after the event!

For any attendees that are around the night before, there is a social venue booked for folks to meet up and start networking. This is in ‘The Salmon Rooms’ at the Lass O’Gowrie on Charles Street, Manchester – which is only a few hundred yards from the conference centre. They have free WiFi and will take food orders up until 8pm. See their site for map and directions. http://www.lassogowrie.co.uk

We are delighted to announce the final two speakers added to our Sunday schedule, to be held at MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) on Sunday morning, 11th October. These are Ben Scholzen, who will be speaking about “Tokens and Lexemes”, and Juliette Reinders Folmer who will tell us about UTF-8. All of Sunday’s speakers are volunteers and the lineup looks excellent, see you there 🙂

We have two more additions to announce to the Sunday schedule for PHP North West 2009 (10th October 2009, Manchester, UK). Michael Heap will show us some tricks with jQuery while Rick Ogden walks us through an introduction to object-oriented programming in PHP – see the schedule for information about plans for both Saturday and Sunday.

If you haven’t got your tickets yet, you can still get them – priced at 65 GBP + VAT (35 GBP + VAT for student tickets while there are still some left). Come and join in!

Today is the last day to get tickets for PHP North West 2009 at the Early Bird prices. With only a month to go, the schedule is complete and many people have already made their plans to come and join us in Manchester for the weekend. With sponsors confirmed and final details of the Sunday schedule emerging, things are looking very exciting for PHPNW Conference this year!

After today ticket prices will go to 65 GBP + VAT for normal tickets – there are still some student places available at 35 GBP at the time of writing. See the registation page to book your tickets, see you in Manchester on October 10th 🙂

Announcing Sara Golemon of Yahoo! as the first addition to our Sunday schedule – Sara is the Front-End Architect for Yahoo! Web Search, a core PHP developer, author of “Extending and Embedding PHP” and is also known as the “PECL Princess”. She will bring her talk “PHP 5.3 – Hot or Not?” which shows off some of the new features in 5.3 and discuss which are hot (and which are not!).

Sara usually lives in California but happens to be in the area and has graciously agreed to join us for this event – thanks Sara!