Yesterday I attended the first day of 2.5 days of ZendCon 2008.  This was the second year I have attended and much more relaxing knowning that I do not need to take a test this year.  Last year I became a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE), this year I got a shiny grey ribbon attached to my badge.

I sat in on the following sessions:

As a whole the day was much more involved and more content than last year.  The two sessions that stood out for the day were Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services and The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development which if you know Ben Ramsey or Eli White you know why I enjoyed their talks the most.  Eli was even able to incorporate The Hoff in his presentation, which I’m sure thrilled the German attendees. I’m looking forward to using the Atom publishing and can finally see the difference between RSS 2.0 and Atom and why the developer community has been on the Atom side.

Twitter is being used by several of us heavily and you can view all messages from attendies using the following hash: #zendcon

I have gathered lots of info and looking forward to using the information I have and will learn this week during my talk at TulsaTechFest 2008.

More tomorrow.