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I mentioned earlier today that I am at that I am at the PHP London Conference. And I just found out something new about PHP that I wanted to share.

Apparently PHP has quality assurance. That is to say, there are a team of contributers dedicated to QA for PHP. One of the members, Zoe Slattery from IBM gave a talk here today with the superb name “test||die”.

Anyone who has compiled PHP from source should be aware that there is a test suite for PHP, but fewer are likley to know that it is actively maintained.

All the tests use standard PHP, so if you know PHP, you can contribute tests. Check out qa.php.net for more information. (I didn’t even know that website existed).

Today I am at the PHP Conference London 2008, with about 300 other developers. We’ve all listened to Ivo Jansch in his “PHP Enterprise” talk, which is a good discussion of software engineering for php developers.

I’m currently listening to Stefan Esser’s”Binary PHP Analysis” talk which is a really useful insight into php security auditing.

The PHP London user group just announced PHP London 2007 conference. Tickets are just £50, and speakers are Rasmus Lerdorf, Cal Evans, the editor of Zend DevZone, Kevlin Henney and Simon Laws, the lead on PHP’s new SCA_SDO extension.

Looks like it should be a good conference and I hope to see you there (-: