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Past Events
November
MadisonPHP
November 2–3, Madison, WI
http://www.madisonphpconference.comphp[world] 2018
November 14–15, Washington D.C.
https://world.phparch.comLaravelDay 2018
November 29–30, Verona, Italy
http://2018.laravelday.itUpcoming Events
December
SymfonyCon Lisbon 2018
December 4–8, Lisbon, Portugal
https://lisbon2018.symfony.comJapan PHP Conference 2018
December 15, Tokyo, Japan
http://phpcon.php.gr.jp/2018/January
PHPBenelux Conference 2019
January 25–26, Antwerp, Belgium
https://www.phpbenelux.euFebruary
SunshinePHP 2019
February 7–9, Miami, FL
http://sunshinephp.comPHP UK Conference 2019
February 20–22, London, England
https://www.phpconference.co.ukMarch
ExpoPHP 2019 Conference
CfP Deadline: December 31, 2018
March 1–2, Ostróda, Poland
https://2019.expophp.plConFoo Montreal 2019
March 13–15, Montreal, Canada
http://confoo.caApril
PHP Yorkshire 2019
April 11–13, University of York
http://www.phpyorkshire.co.ukMay
Longhorn PHP Conference 2019
May 2–4, Austin, TX
https://www.longhornphp.comRogue Wave
In slightly more perturbing news, we
saw the announcement in October that
Zeev Suraski, Dmitry Stogov, Matthew
Weier O’Phinney, and Enrico Zimuel
will eventually be leaving Rogue Wave
(who acquired Zend in October 2015)
and looking for new opportunities.
Zeev cited the reason on his blog post^4
being “Rogue Wave has recently taken
a strategic decision to focus its efforts
on the Zend Server part of the Zend
portfolio.” I’m interested to see what
sort of developments will happen over
the coming months, as I’m sure many
are keen to ensure the longevity of
PHP and Zend Framework and hope4 blog post:
https://phpa.me/zeev-future-zendsomething positive will come out of
this change.
Despite the Rogue Wave decision, I
think 2019 will prove to be another
strong year for the language and the
community. I hope we will see the
adoption of PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.3
increase as time goes by, and of course
we can speculate about major changes
like PHP 8, and whether they’ll include
often discussed features such as JIT
support, FFI support, async support,
generics and so on, and whether we’llsee any more releases in the 7.x series
or not. I’m sure we’ll also see more
shifts in the community, with new
conferences such as JestPHP in Arizona
already announced, growth in the PHP
community, and more.
I hope we continue caring about the
software we write and continue to try to
do better. Both in a technical sense and
a personal sense as we work together
and build our “PHPamily” bigger in- Happy new year folks!
James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave. He is
a prolific contributor to various open source projects and is a
Zend Certified Engineer. He also founded the UK based PHP
Hampshire user group and PHP South Coast conference.
@asgrim