A Web Framework for People Who Hate Frameworks
English session
All web application frameworks suck, in one way or another. Some are overly complex for the task at hand, and others don't offer enough flexibility when your application steps outside of the nice & comfy confines of the ubiquitous blog tutorial. As stated by the venerable Sean Coates, the "#1 reason to avoid frameworks: you'll spend all your time working around edge cases."
Lithium, a new PHP 5.3+ RAD framework started by several CakePHP core alumnus, is designed to help you get the job done, and get out of your way. Built from the ground up by seasoned framework developers for today's web, it attempts to learn from the past by creating a cohesive set of replaceable, uniform components with intuitive interfaces, without crippling or hiding the important details from the developer. It's a stack that doesn't reinvent, and makes the developer a priority.
Lithium, a new PHP 5.3+ RAD framework started by several CakePHP core alumnus, is designed to help you get the job done, and get out of your way. Built from the ground up by seasoned framework developers for today's web, it attempts to learn from the past by creating a cohesive set of replaceable, uniform components with intuitive interfaces, without crippling or hiding the important details from the developer. It's a stack that doesn't reinvent, and makes the developer a priority.
Joel Perras View speaker page
Plank Design
Joël is a core developer of CakePHP & a founding developer of Lithium (http://li3.rad-dev.org/), an up & coming PHP 5.3+ framework on the cutting edge of blending OOP & functional programming. Joël is a language agnost, and enjoys learning & using Python, Haskell and Ruby, and everything in between. His current interests are in the development & application of graph algorithms and machine learning to better understand the ever-increasing datasets that are the backbone of today's social Web. 
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