Some days ago, the awesome guys at Interlutions announced the new edition of the Symfony Day on October, 20th and 21st in Cologne (Germany). The call for papers keeps opened until July, 31st. I will be giving a Symfony2 & Doctrine 2 workshop with two other awesome guys from the Symfony Community: Jordi Boggiano and Ryan Weaver. If you are interested in learning the basics of Symfony2 and lots of usefull tips from the experts' voice, just keep track of the soon to be opened registration process...

Although I have a good knowledge of the PHP API and object oriented programming concepts, I learned something very interesting about interfaces in PHP. You probably know that an interface can extend another interface like a class does with another class. But, did you know that an interface can extend multiple interfaces in a row unlike classes? I didn't until today. I just discovered thanks to one of the best contributors of the Symfony2 framework: Bernhard Schussek aka WebMozart (love his nickname by the way :) ).

Template engines are really famous in the PHP World nowadays. As of today, I always disliked template engines written in PHP and I always advocated to use pure PHP templates to generate views.

Some of you still probably follow the same opinion. In fact PHP sucks as a template engine. Why? Because PHP is so much verbose, PHP doesn't support automatic output escaping and modern templating features, PHP doesn't ease separation of concerns (aka MVC architecture)... Of course, there is Twig to the rescue! A modern and powerful template engine you will love.

From March, 7th to 11th I will attend the great Confoo conferences meeting in Montreal, Canada. During this full week, I will give a Symfony2 two days training sessions to a small group of developers and two talks about Symfony2 and continuous integration.

The last week, I was glad to know I was choosen by the Confoo staff members to give two french talks about Symfony2 and Continuous integration with PHP & Hudson from wednesday 9th to friday 11th in Montreal, Canada. The conference will take place at the Hilton Bonaventure hotel in the heart of Montreal.

But before the event, I will also give one Symfony2 training on monday 7th and tuesday 8th.