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The coming weeks are gonna be a little hectic for me, as I fly to Atlanta on the 12th to attend php|works / PyWorks 2008. I’ll be doing the following talks:

• Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and Javascript in AIR
• The CodeIgniter Framework

I’m pretty excited about php|works / PyWorks 2008, especially because we can interact with the Python community and learn more about each other’s tech. Cross-pollination is a Good Thing.

I’m flying back to IND on the 15th, but then I’m leaving again on the 16th for San Francisco and the Adobe MAX 2008 conference. I’m giving the following talk:

• Developing Rich Applications with jQuery and Adobe AIR

Originally this talk was going to be given by John Resig, creator of the jQuery library, but he ran into some time constraints and thoughtfully suggested me. Of course, the description still mentions his name, which likely means I’ll be tarred and feathered by the audience. This also looks like it may be the largest audience I’ve ever given a talk before: there are currently about 70 folks listed as attending, with ~300 capacity. So if I wet myself on stage, please forgive me.

Update: Audio is now available, thanks to Kevin Hoyt.

ZendCon was pretty fun, although I was feeling under the weather most of the time. Still, I was able to offend lots of folks with my DearZend project, which was also the source for one of my three examples in my talk. You can get the code for my examples, and the slides in PDF, from here or from SlideShare:

• Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR - slides
• Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR - code
• Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR - audio

You can also get the code for the DearZend client app and server app on GitHub. For those curious, I wrote the server app in CodeIgniter.

Remember when you went to SXSWi last year, and you said “I love the parts where I meet cool people and eat free food and drink free booze and throw up, but I wish the presentations and panels weren’t so goddamn fluffy?” Me too. That’s why Alex Payne (aka “The Guy Who Has Actual Name Recognition”) and myself submitted the talk “Security for the Social Set.”

The idea is that we give some solid, useful information about the security problems social networking apps have to deal with, and how to deal with them. While we can’t get too focused on specific languages and frameworks, client-side defense with JavaScript will certainly be demonstrated, and I intend to show examples in PHP and probably a couple other platforms (coughRailscough). It will be hard to get into heavy detail within the alloted time, but it’s my hope that we can kickstart awareness and understanding of fundamental secure web app programming techniques.

Plus, I need a justification for dropping the coin for hotel and air fare on this boozefest, so please, vote for us.

• Security for the Social Set (SXSW 2009)

Oh, and a few other meaty talks you should consider include:

• Practical JavaScript Development
• More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (this was packed last year)
• 200s, 304s, HTTP Compression, and You
• Hackproofing Ruby-on-Rails Web Applications
• Functional Programming Without A (Strictly) Functional Language
• Unit Testing Back to Front: Prove it Works!

Just a quick note that my slides from my OSCON 2008 talk, “Securing the PHP Environment With PHPSecInfo,” are now online.

• PDF
• Slideshare

If you’re at OSCON, and you love security, you may or may not enjoy my talk on PHPSecInfo, a security auditing tool for the PHP environment. I’m actually going to try to show some new code, so if you’ve seen it before, you can see it again – for the first time.

The talk is at 1:45pm Thursday, 07/24/2008.

• PHPSecInfo homepage
• PHPSecInfo code repository