This is coverage of Day 2 of ZendCon07. Previous days coverage are here - Day 0 Tutorials, Day 1 Part 1, Day 1 Part 2 - and my presentation given on Day 1 is available here. This post will likely be updated with photos once I dive into the Flickr steam.

The opening keynote of the day was from Lee Brimelow from Adobe demo'ing Flex and some other nifty toys. He showed off a few live demos and live applications that are out there including Google Finance and Buzzword. But more than anything, he focused on using Flex on the frontend to wrap a PHP backend and how they can play nicely together. Just a few years ago, the message seemed to be that Flash was The Way and we ended up with an entire generation of entirely Flash websites... and their creators went into hiding ala the humans in Terminator. Obviously since Adobe's purchase of Macromedia, something fundamental changed in their message and it's good to hear a more pragmatic approach.