English session
Introduction to PHP 5.3, covering both major and not-so major but useful features and functionality PHP 5.3 brings to the table. This talk would be of particular interest to people considering migrating to PHP 5.3 or have already done so and would like to know how PHP 5.3 can further simplify their tasks.
Ilia Alshanetsky (Centah Inc.) View speaker page
Ilia Alshanetsky is a CIO at Centah Inc., a company specializing in providing solutions to retail and construction industries. Over the last 10 years Ilia has been heavily involved in development of PHP, as a Core Developer and Release Master, authoring many extensions and language improvements. Ilia is also quite interested in security and performance, and frequently is writing or speaking on these and other PHP related topics. In his spare time he pretends to be a pro-photographer and engages 
