I recently attended Surge 2011 and thought I would publish some twitter notes and thoughts about the experience. This was the first conference I’ve attended in some time that wasn’t focused on a particular language (like ZendCon) and it was great that Surge was held right here in downtown Baltimore.
Day One
Node js / Chef / Riak
nanderoo Neal Anders Really wish I could be in two places at once for the #riak and #chef training today at #surgecon – until then it’s time to hack some node.js
- riak
rustyio Rusty Klophaus by …

The PHP|Tek Conference is a little over a week away, and I’m excited about the opportunity to attend.  I’m also a little bummed that I’ll miss out on the Tutorial Day — specifically the session on “Converting Your MySQL App to NoSQL with MongoDB“. Can someone take notes for me? ;o)
Here are some of the sessions I’m looking forward to:

Large Scale Systems by David Strauss
Continuous Inspection and Integration of PHP Projects by Sebastian Bergmann
HipHop for PHP by Scott MacVicar
Lean Mean PHP Machine by Jason Austin

I’ll also be …