Well I am nearly through one of the coolest weeks of my working life, this having been my itinerary, Monday to Friday: London, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, London, and LA.

All for a good cause, of course , selling the great Ibuildings story in a variety of ways. In the UK we run an intimate seminar every month, getting to the community and our customers. We try to give some theory and some practice, in the form of a talk or workshop, and presenting the Zend products (thanks to Mikko). So far we have had Ivo on Enterprise PHP (no surprises there), and a great workshop from Lorna on version control using SubVersion. We talked to nearly 50 people in Leeds and Dublin, and we hope to run these seminars once a month, if not more. One thing we need are topics of great interest to enterprise PHP users, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated. One area that we want to focus on is Zend Framework, where we could actually find many seminar topics.

Tomorrow a lucky few of us set off for LA for a brief road trip leading up to ZendCon. Since everyone there gets a chance to do the PHP Certification test, for some unknown reason I agreed to sit the thing, having never written a line of PHP code in my life. Watch this space, but miracles really don't happen. ZendCon will give me the opportunity to try and talk to every European voice I hear, as well as some serious bonding with our Dutch cousins. We'll also post regular live updates from the conference on this blog so stay tuned!

So we decided that in order to get to see all the people who are interested in PHP leadership topics, we should run an intimate seminar and invite our contacts along. If there is demand, we could run these every month. Here is the invitation that went out:

Free Seminar: Enterprise PHP and Zend

Title: Enterprise PHP and Zend
Date: 10th June 2008
Time: 9:00 - 13:00
Location: King's College London (Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Speaker: Ivo Jansch, CTO of Ibuildings and leading PHP expert