I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at the annual PHP Quebec Conference on March 31st and April 1st. I will be giving a talk on Web services and a workshop on the same topic. The conference includes talks by many great speakers on variety of topics and should be of interest to all PHP users.

I've been fortunate to be invited to speak at two conference so far this year. The first of those two conferences, PHP West will be happening in about a week in Vancouver on January, 14th 2005. I will, be giving a talk on XML support in PHP 5. While the conference lasts only a single day it costs merely $40 to attend and given an impressive list of speakers Rasmus, John, Terry, etc... it is certainly worth attending. The second conference, PHP|Tropics, is still a few month away will be happening at the all-inclusive (alcoholic drinks are included, WOOHOO!) Moon Palace Resort near Cancun, Mexico between May 11th and 15th, 2005. Which should give you plenty of time to convince your boss and/or spouse to let you attend. I will be giving a talk on making PHP run a whole lot faster as well as an introductory tutorial on PHP 5. Marco has been working hard at giving reason for people to stay away from the beach by inviting many other great speakers such as Wez, Derick, Marcus and many others. So aside...