Despite what you may read on the side of Yahoo!'s Caltrain shuttle, Yahoo did not invent PHP. Rasmus Lerdorf invented PHP. Fortunately, Rasmus now works at Yahoo! and he'll be at OSCON on July 23rd along with Thomas Sha, progenitor of the Yahoo! User Interface library, for an intensely practical half-day tutorial called You Got JavaScript in My PHP! And.... In a mere 3.5 hours, the duo will "build a sample modern web application with Lerdorf driving the backend and Sha the frontend," according to the tutorial description. Expect some top-notch AJAX and PHP hacking from two experts in their respective fields.

Jason Levitt