This was the first talk I went to at ZendCon. The provided description: The emergence of HTML 5 and related technologies opens up a new world of possibilities for web applications. Among those new technologies are WebSockets, which allow for bi-directional communication between the browser and the server. This session …

The second talk that I attended of the conference was on an overview of Zend Framework 2 (ZF2). Although I thought it was going to go over the Event Driven Actions in ZF2, they changed it due to popular demand. The ZendCon website gave this description: One of the most …

The MySQL talk was given by Dave Stokes of Oracle. He's the MySQL community manager. The ZendCon summary: MySQL had been evolving since the Oracle take over in 2010. This session will cover how new features like multi-threaded replication, InnoDB-Memcached plugin for NoSQL data access, or having InnoDB as the …

The contextual experience on the web was a talk by Jeff Carouth of Texas A&M University. The ZendCon summary: The great native apps vs mobile web debate will live on for a little while longer, but more and more we are realizing that we can get the best of …