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: zend framework programming zend zend-framework
  Views: 7930
  Description:
  My Zend Framework talk from ZendCon 2006. It discusses Zend Framework, what makes it interesting, and some basic usage
  
  
• Enterprise PHP
  Tags: php php php enterprise enterprise
  Views: 1783
  Description:
  No Description Available
  
  
  
• John's Top PECL Picks
  Tags: pecl php php pecl
  Views: 1648
  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: scalability 30 30 scalability top
  Views: 5454
  Description:
  An extended version of my famed Top 10 Scalability Mistakes talk given at various conferences around the world.
  
  
• Top 10 Scalability Mistakes
  Tags: php scalability mysql php php
  Views: 7894
  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 ajax ajax php quebec ajax
  Views: 7808
  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: php php4 php php5 migrating
  Views: 7817
  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
  
  
• PHP Security Basics
  Tags: php security security zend levels
  Views: 3407
  Description:
  A short webinar I gave with Zend on basic security practices when developing PHP applications
  
  
• Building Dynamic Web Applications on i5 with PHP
  Tags: on i5 zend building php
  Views: 4254
  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
  
  
• Enterprise PHP: A Case Study
  Tags: case study php case study enterprise php enterprisephp
  Views: 11157
  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: media' scalability iuyi 10 scalability
  Views: 5499
  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: zendcon08 zend php php flex
  Views: 6150
  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 apachecon08 apachecon apachecon apachecon08
  Views: 1740
  Description:
  The ApacheCon 2008 version of the Top 10 Scalability Mistakes given in New Orleans, LA this year
  
  
• Beyond the Browser
  Tags: browser quebec2009 phpquebec09 php phpquebec
  Views: 3056
  Description:
  A brief keynote I gave at PHP Quebec regarding the shift away from the browser for applications and the potential impacts it will have on our development needs as an industry
  
  
• Ria Applications And PHP
  Tags: php phpquebec ria development php
  Views: 3011
  Description:
  My talk on building rich internet applications using Adobe Flex/AIR and PHP/Zend Framework given at the PHP Quebec 2009 Conference
  
  
• Building PHP Powered Android Applications
  Tags: php android phpquebec phpquebec09 php
  Views: 39892
  Description:
  This is a talk I gave at PHP Quebec 2009 on building Android applications with PHP back-ends. Posted for completeness, the majority of this talk was buried in Android/Java and PHP code.. That said, there are still some useful things in the slides themselves to share.
  
  
• Puppet
  Tags: deployment unix confoo web puppet
  Views: 514
  Description:
  My talk given at Confoo, 2011 in Montreal, Quebec on using the Puppet client/server deployment tool for complex web application deployments. This is an introduction talk, and introduces everything you'll need to get started.