On wednesday my entry for this year's PHP Advent calendar was published. The article provides some guidelines for visiting PHP conferences and how to get the most out of them.

Since the advent site doesn't have a comments feature, feel free to post any comments you might have below.

I'm very impressed with the quality of the advent calendar this year. Articles like yesterday's 'The Framework as Franchise' by Paul Jones are really insightful. This year, there are hardly any articles with code samples. That's a good thing, there are enough of those on the regular sites. So this year's advent is one to treasure, it will be a nice collection of insightful articles on a wide range of PHP related topics.

For an overview of the articles so far, go here.

I had the honor of writing the entry for day 9 of the PHP Advent Calendar. My entry is about Design Patterns.

The PHP Advent Calendar is an initiative of Chris Shiflett. Every day until Christmas, people from the PHP community will post entries on PHP related subjects. Topics covered so far include Testing, Security, Documentation, SPL and there are many more.

Sean Coates created a nice interface to the calendar that makes it easy to navigate through all the entries that have been posted. You can find it here.