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    On Monday I arrived back in Germany from the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo.
    Other people already posted detailed round ups 1 2 3 on this great event,
    so from my side only few words on the actual event: It was damn cool! :)
    The conference itself was a very well working mixture of business and geek
    talks, the sessions were chosen really good. As usual I met a whole lot of
    old friends (like Markus Börger, John Coggeshall, Christian Wenz and even
    Sterling Hughes) and made another lot of new ones. The location was really
    nice and the events they organized were real fun. So, all in all: My
    appreciation to Zend for this great event!

On Monday I arrived back in Germany from the `Zend/PHP Conference & Expo`__.
Other people already posted detailed round ups `1`__ `2`__ `3`__ on this great
event, so from my side only few words on the actual event: It was damn cool!
:) The conference itself was a very well working mixture of business and geek
talks, the sessions were chosen really good. As usual I met a whole lot of old
friends (like Markus Börger, John Coggeshall, Christian Wenz and even
Sterling Hughes) and made another lot of new ones. The location was really
nice and the events they organized were real fun. So, all in all: My
appreciation to Zend for this great event!

.. __: http://zend.kbconferences.com/
.. __: http://shiflett.org/archive/163
.. __: http://netevil.org/node.php?nid=630
.. __: http://www.hauser-wenz.de/s9y/index.php?/archives/143-Zend-Conference-Expo,-Day-4.html

**Update Oct. 30**: I recently added 2 movies Gregor made during our heli trip
to `my gallery`__. Really cool! :)

.. __: /applications/gallery/sf2005_after_conference_day3_heli_trip?page=7

But now, let's come to the more unofficial part: On Friday, after the last
keynote, Gregor Streng (from `Mayflower`__) and me moved to a hotel downtown
San Francisco, `directly at the Union Square`__, to have 3 more days of
enjoying San Francisco itself (since the Conference took place in a town near
SFO airport: `Burlingame`__). We had 3 fantastic days in "`the City`__" and
did lot's of sight seeing, like flying over SF with a helicopter, touring to
Sausalito with a bike, going out for party with Sterling, and much more. Just
to make you curious, here just a few of the amazing pictures we took:

.. __: http://www.thinkphp.de
.. __: http://www.google.com/local?q=union+square+hotel+loc%3A+San+Francisco,+CA&ll=37.785700,-122.407641&spn=0.053170,0.109181&f=l&iwloc=A&iwstate2=page%3Abasics&hl=en
.. __: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+francisco&ll=37.583171,-122.325833&spn=0.013327,0.032290&hl=en
.. __: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+francisco&ll=37.755244,-122.416534&spn=0.106372,0.258316&hl=en

|image_1| [`4`__] |image_2| |image_3| |image_4|

.. __: /applications/gallery/albums/sf2005_after_conference_day3_heli_trip/abh.thumb.jpg

.. |image_1| image:: /applications/gallery/albums/sf2005_after_conference_day2_ferri_trip/abh.thumb.jpg

.. |image_2| image:: /applications/gallery/albums/sf2005_the_conference/aak.thumb.jpg

.. |image_3| image:: /applications/gallery/albums/sf2005_after_conference/album05.thumb.jpg

.. |image_4| image:: /applications/gallery/albums/sf2005_after_conference_day2_cable_car/aah.thumb.jpg

`See all photos...`__

.. __: /applications/gallery/zend_php_conference_expo_2005

All in all it was an amazing trip and I love San Francisco, it's flair, the
people and the whole city. I will definitly come back one day... Hopefully
this is next year for another Zend/PHP Conference and Expo. Thanks so much for
bringing me there!!! :)


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- Kare Anderson at Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:10:03 +0100

  so happy to hear you enjoyed the bay area, including Sausalito... too bad
  you can't visit next Feb when we have the first ever Tour de France-style
  race, the tour of California, from S.F. to Redondo Beach.... and stopping in
  Sausalito... see further comments at sausalitobythebay.com