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Who can afford to pay the $995 to go to one of these? Has anybody here ever attended one of these? Is it worth the friggin thousand dollars it costs to go?

http://www.zend.com/store/zend_php_conf ... rence_1006
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Those are for companies, I think. More so that the companies can send their developers to the conference to get 'smarter'? I tossed my invite.
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Featuring speakers from companies such as Zend, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Amazon, EBay, and Digg
These sites use PHP? The only extreeemely large site I've seen using PHP is Yahoo. I'm sure other sites do as well but their mod rewrites make it hard to tell.
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$1,000 is pennies to a company, especially when the experienced or knowledge gained will likely generate much more income in the long run. As for going to one of those, I don't see myself going to one of those in the near future, perhaps in a couple years when things settle down.
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Well regardless of $1000's relative worth to a large company, my question remains... Is it worth paying?
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I can't speak for myself, but from what I've heard absolutely.
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scottayy wrote:
Featuring speakers from companies such as Zend, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Amazon, EBay, and Digg
These sites use PHP? The only extreeemely large site I've seen using PHP is Yahoo. I'm sure other sites do as well but their mod rewrites make it hard to tell.
Digg were recruiting php programmers last week.
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This is a bit off-topic....

but why do people go so out of their way for a mod-rewritten URL that looks worse than if they just left it alone? I can see optimizing URLs for search engines, but they don't even do that!

For example:
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/features/ ... ades/week8

I was just actually reading that, so it's not like I went searching for a long url. Perhaps it's for organization.. but that is 6 "directories" deep.
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scottayy wrote:I was just actually reading that, so it's not like I went searching for a long url. Perhaps it's for organization.. but that is 6 "directories" deep.
These aren't directories, they are being parsed by a front controller. That's why http://www.sportsline.com/monkey/bananas/shake works.
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I think that's why he "quoted" the term directories.
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Ahhhh. What's the fuss about then? :P
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Overhere most of the crew goes to teched, barcelona... i believe tickets are around $2500.. so yes, $1000 is peanuts :) (I'm not going to any of them this year.. In case of really interesting things i'm pretty sure my collegues will make a nice summary and presentation themselves :))
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