code meets music

I’m off to the PHP Conference in London tomorrow, organised by the London PHP User Group.

I was just checking the website now, and it seems it’s sold out which has to be a good thing for the organisers- perhaps it will mean it’s even bigger next year?

There are 5 talks, covering mashups, web services, OOP, Scalable applications and, deviating slightly from the theme, “Designing for the Curious Home”.

It is the last two that intrigue me most- Rasmus Lerdorf’s “Fast and Rich Web Applications with PHP 5” because I hope to learn some things I can use to make the applications I develop that bit better/faster and the latter because, well, it’s different and sounds quite interesting.

Details of each talk can be found on the site, and I believe it is planned that audio and video will be available afterwards.

I’ve never been to a conference before and I’m quite looking forward to it. To get there though, means waking up at 5:30 am to walk to the station (no buses early enough…) for a 6:30 train, followed by a tube ride from Euston to Elephant & Castle where it’s apparently only a short walk to the venue, which is good. I have a good sense of direction when I’m in the countryside (hiking/driving on rural roads) but as soon as I get into built up areas it goes out of the window and I tend to get lost. Reducing the opportunity for that is best.