Welcome to the resources section. Here you will find a growing collection of resources related to various PHP, architecture, and internet technology subjects which I have have found personally useful. Please feel free to contact me if you have comments or suggestions!

Here is a collection of conference presentations I've given over the years at conferences around the world. If you've recently seen a talk of mine and are looking for the matierals chances are if they aren't here yet then they will be shortly (note: sometimes I am unable to put the materials online for various reasons).

All of my conference presentations are hosted at Slide Share and can be viewed right within the browser by clicking on the title.

Available Presentations

• Zend Framework
  Tags: zendcon zend framework
  Views: 2512
  Description:
  My Zend Framework talk from ZendCon 2006. It discusses Zend Framework, what makes it interesting, and some basic usage
  
  
• Enterprise PHP
  Tags: enterprise php php enterprise
  Views: 584
  Description:
  No Description Available
  
  
  
• John's Top PECL Picks
  Tags: pecl php php pecl
  Views: 179
  Description:
  A presentation I gave at PHP Quebec, 2006 on some of the less known and very powerful PECL extensions available for PHP
  
  
• Top 30 Scalability Mistakes
  Tags: php php 30 30 zend
  Views: 466
  Description:
  An extended version of my famed Top 10 Scalability Mistakes talk given at various conferences around the world.
  
  
• Top 10 Scalability Mistakes
  Tags: zend 30 scalability top php
  Views: 2727
  Description:
  A very successful talk where in I discuss the top 10 failures of organizations I have personally experienced when trying to scale. More than just performance!
  
  
• Ajax and PHP
  Tags: ajax php php quebec php quebec zend
  Views: 2392
  Description:
  A three hour tutorial I gave at PHP Quebec on the challenges, theory, and concepts behind making asynchronous JavaScript calls for Web 2.0 Applications using PHP
  
  
• Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
  Tags: php5 php4 php|tropics php5 php4
  Views: 2773
  Description:
  A talk I gave at php|tropics on the potential risks and challenges when migrating an existing PHP version 4 application to PHP 5
  
  
• Building Dynamic Web Applications on i5 with PHP
  Tags: i5 i5 php php development
  Views: 580
  Description:
  A short web cast I gave with Zend's VP of Business Development Mike Pinette targeted at introducing PHP to those who manage IBM i5 servers
  
  
• PHP Security Basics
  Tags: php php security security
  Views: 947
  Description:
  A short webinar I gave with Zend on basic security practices when developing PHP applications
  
  
• Enterprise PHP: A Case Study
  Tags: case study php inticketing case study php
  Views: 3776
  Description:
  These are the slides from my ZendCon 2007 talk on a project we did in Professional Services to basically rebuild from scratch InTicketing's (TicketMaster competitor) e-commerce engine using Zend technologies. It was very well received (not even standing room) and well worth a look!
  
  
• Top 10 Scalability Mistakes
  Tags: oscon08 oscon
  Views: 2331
  Description:
  My Top 10 Scalability Mistakes talk updated for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in Portland, OR 2008
  
  
• Ria Development With Flex And PHP
  Tags: adobe zendcon08 flex php ria
  Views: 708
  Description:
  My slides from ZendCon 2008 on Rich Internet Application Development using Zend Framework, PHP, and Adobe Flex.
  
  
• Apache Con 2008 Top 10 Mistakes
  Tags: apachecon apachecon apachecon08 apachecon08 apachecon08
  Views: 152
  Description:
  The ApacheCon 2008 version of the Top 10 Scalability Mistakes given in New Orleans, LA this year