Fourteen years ago, Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of PHP. It’s been a long journey from there to where PHP Is today—with many bumps along the road, a few flat tires and some great scenery. The question on our mind, however, is this: how is the PHP community growing up and evolving?

We are thrilled to announce the first of our fantastic speakers for CodeWorks 2009! Derick Rethans will be joining us for all seven cities. Derick is a well-known and well-respected PHP expert who has spent years actively contributing to the PHP project and spreading his PHP knowledge to others. He will be speaking on the topics of Xdebug, date/time specifics, and improving your development process. We are very excited to have Derick on tour with us!

Our May issue, dedicated to the interesting world of Windows and PHP, is now available on our website and, thanks to a helping hand from Microsoft itself, the PDF edition is available for free to everyone!

We’re proud to introduce our newest and most exciting conference initiative yet: a touring series of two-day conferences designed to take a great community atmosphere on the road for a unique learning and networking opportunity. CodeWorks will visit seven different cities in the US from September 22 and October 5—and, with prices starting as low as $99 per attendee, there’s bound to be a conference near you that you don’t want to miss!