Johannes Schlüter

Yesterday we held our PHP BBQ event at Munich, well it was no BBQ as the weather forecasts predicted rain,which came in the evening, but a nice evening in a beer garden.

We had more than 30 people there, some leaving early, sme arriving late, covering quite different kinds of participants: PHP core developers, professional PHP users, people doing PHP stuff as hobby, friends and PHP community veterans like Till Gerken. Many people didn't know each other or didn't see each other or some time so we had lot's of discussions, and most of them even weren't about PHP and even many non-IT things were covered, which I find always great. If you want an impression check Ulf's photos. I really hope this makes a good foundation for more regular PHP meetups.

There will be a few more events of this kind this week in Germany, so go there if you can, don't be shy and have fun.

PHP BBQ dates:

• Tuesday, 16.06.2009: Frankfurt
• Wednesday, 17.06.2009: Karlsruhe
• Thursday, 18.06.2009: Berlin
• Friday, 19.06.2009: Dortmund
• Saturday, 20.06.2009: Hamburg
• Sunday, 21.06.2009: Kiel

More inormation on the exact location and information about registration can be found on the MySQL Forge Wiki.

After hanging around on the PHP Conference at Frankfurt Mörfelden the last three years without giving a talk I decided to propose something for this year's edition and was recently informed that my proposal has been accepted. Therefore I'll be giving my talk "Run PHP, Run" where I'll present some ways of analyzing and improving PHP performance.

Recently Gabor Szabo, the organizer of the Open Source Developrs' Conference, Isreal, informed me that they cancelled next year's conference. I planed to give a PHP talk there and hope for a later chance.

Next weekend I'll join Wolfram and a few other friends and attend the BarCamp at Nürnberg. If you plan to go there, too, put your name on the list of participants.