Vancouver PHP Conference: Cheaper And Better

burnitall writes "The Vancouver PHP User's Group is hosting the ultimate deal in cons next Thursday and Friday (Jan 22 & 23) in Vancouver BC CA - registration is only $150 CDN vs thousands at more commercial events. This is a non-profit con bringing together some of the biggest names in PHP, including Rasmus Lerdorf ( PHP inventor ) and Sterling Hughes (PHP core developer) amongst others. The conference is put on by volunteers and is still seeking sponsorship ..."

How to raise money

[eric.t.f.bat]

Here's one way to raise some cash for this: get the guy(s) who invented PHP to sit on a chair, then sell waterlogged sponges to all the people who've ever used PHP. As they throw the sponges, let them shout things like "pick a naming standard and stick to it, you bastards!", or "read the fsking Dragon Book before you inflict your high-school-level language design skills on the rest of the world!". You'd raise a mint.

Right. Better get back to debugging my PHP...

Re:How to raise money

[burnitall]

erm, well in spots yes it is actually.

my favorite function of all time in php is nl2br, ONCE I FOUND IT.

what an awful name, it's like perl or something. =)

Re:How to raise money

[SerialHistorian]

Actually, I like PHP better than 'designed' languages like Java or C#. It's simple, it's easy to find functions, and you can do almost anything youd need to by stringing the functions together or by installing a library and using the then-built-in functions (Instead of having to find one of three hundred million methods IN THE MAIN MODULES TREE on how to draw a graph ... *cough* perl *cough* java *cough, hack*...

Re:How much?

[yo303]

Wait a second. $150 Canadian -- that's like twenty bucks, right?

That would be funny, if the present U.S. financial mismanagement and the resulting weak U.S dollar hadn't been driving the Canadian dollar to new heights. [ottawabusi...ournal.com] Eighty cents and climbing. Maybe it will surpass the US$ again, as it did in the seventies.

The Loonie is so strong now, that it's negatively affecting our trade with the U.S. It's so strong that something has to be done quickly. [canada.com]

Having said all that, Vancouver is a great place

You get what you pay for

[TekZen]

Yeah, it is a great price for an IT conference, but travel costs, not conference price (and definitely not content) are why I would go to Vancouver over Amsterdam [phpconference.com].

Besides, aren't conferences just a lame alternative for those of us who weren't invited to go camping [oreillynet.com]

-TekZen [tekzen.net]

Re:You get what you pay for

[jmccay]

Although, in January, you might want to bring a lot of warm cloths. It's cold in New Hampshire right now, and our weather coming from Canada. That's probably why it's so cheap. Somebody up there in the Vancouver city government was thinking:

"How can we bring more people to the frozen north in January?"

A lightbulb appears fully lit.
We'll put on an ultra-cheap tech confrence and bring hords of geeks up here

Re:You get what you pay for

[ahodgson]

No offense, but Vancouver has about as much in common with the Ontario and Quebec to the north of you as you have with Seattle.

ie. we don't actually get winter. Although it did snow a little last week.

It does rain a lot though. Like right now. Certainly not the best time to come here, but it isn't cold.

fix for 1st url

[millette]

The actual url is: http://vancouver.php.net/ [php.net]

Timothy, can you fix it?

proposing some sponsorship

[axxackall]

The conference is put on by volunteers and is still seeking sponsorship

They should call Zope corporation. I guess if they will promise to present at the conference the migration way from PHP to Zope then Zope Corp may pay something for it! And they can do it simultaniously with other web tech vendors: Microsoft (.Net), Sun (EJB).