For anyone interested in such matters, I'll be speaking at a couple of events in February next year which could provide valuable Learning Experiences for your continual professional development!

First up on the 6th of February near Utrecht in the Netherlands is Sogeti Engineering World, where I'll be talking about document classification in PHP. This includes discussions of why you might want to classify things, why you'd do it in PHP, and then looks at algorithms including a Bayesian classifier, K-Nearest Neighbour and ID3 decision trees. There's some great talks on the schedule, including my main man Felix de Vliegher talking about gearman, and a whole bunch of other interesting stuff, some of which may contain Dutch. I'm quite looking forward to "Object Oriented Cobol" personally.

After that I'm speaking at the always lovely PHP UK Conference, in sunny London on the 26th of February. There I'll be talking integrating search engines into your applications, and we'll cover a bunch of interesting bits and pieces on how search works, and how you can provide better results than anyone (on your own site at least). The line up is top notch, with gurus abounding, including Lorenzo "Hollywood" Alberton talking about doing trendy things with databases, Lorna talking about webservices, the leads from Zend Framework and Symfony not talking about their frameworks, JRF talking about regex, Derick talking about D-bus, Stefan talking about patterns and Skoop talking about documentation.