Adding hyperlinks on sponsorships page and HTML entities for ampersands.

Author: nicksloan

resources/speakers.html

@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ <h4>Living Without Your Linemen</h4>
 
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 				<h3>Sean Coates</h3>
-				<p>Sean Coates has worked on the Web for over a decade. He has managed teams of developers, developed payment code that processed over $1M per day, and currently works on a web startup called Gimme Bar (https://gimmebar.com).</p>
+				<p>Sean Coates has worked on the Web for over a decade. He has managed teams of developers, developed payment code that processed over $1M per day, and currently works on a web startup called <a href="https://gimmebar.com">Gimme Bar</a>.</p>
 				<p>He is a member of the PHP community, has worked on the PHP manual and maintained PEAR+PECL code, speaks on the topic of PHP, and contributes to open source projects.</p>
-				<h4>Gimmie Bar</h4>
+				<h4>Gimme Bar</h4>
 				<p>Gimme Bar is a personal utility that allows users to collect interesting things they find on the Web and save them for later.</p>
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@@ -89,14 +89,14 @@ <h4>The Story of Spaz</h4>
 
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 				<h3>Drew McLellan</h3>
-				<p>Drew McLellan is Director and Senior Developer at UK web development agency edgeofmyseat.com, and lead developer for their small content management system, Perch. Prior to this, he was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and from 2006-08 was Group Lead for The Web Standards Project. Drew has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O'Reilly Media, and writes at his personal site http://allinthehead.com and, with a little help from his friends, at http://24ways.org.</p>
+				<p>Drew McLellan is Director and Senior Developer at UK web development agency <a href="http://edgeofmyseat.com">edgeofmyseat.com</a>, and lead developer for their small content management system, Perch. Prior to this, he was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and from 2006-08 was Group Lead for The Web Standards Project. Drew has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O'Reilly Media, and writes at his personal site <a href="http://allinthehead.com">http://allinthehead.com</a> and, with a little help from his friends, at <a href="http://24ways.org">http://24ways.org</a>.</p>
 				<h4>The Original Hypertext Preprocessor</h4>
 				<p>With all the technical considerations of designing and shipping PHP-based software, it's easy to forget how every line of code you write can have a direct impact on your customers. Almost any code has the potential to shape the user experience and result in repeat custom or an over-subscribed helpdesk. Allow Drew McLellan to take you through the lessons learned when building Perch - a PHP content management system that banks heavily on providing a great user experience. Hear what has worked, what failed miserably, and how a goal of eliminating all support requests has driven the technical design of the product.</p>
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 				<h3>Brian Moon</h3>
-				<p>Brian Moon has been working with the LAMP platform since before it was called LAMP. He is web engineer for dealnews.com. He has made a few small contributions to the PHP project and been a casual participant in discussions on the PHP internals list. He is the founder and lead developer of the Phorum project, the first PHP/MySQL message board ever created.</p>
+				<p>Brian Moon has been working with the LAMP platform since before it was called LAMP. He is web engineer for <a href="http://dealnews.com">dealnews.com</a>. He has made a few small contributions to the PHP project and been a casual participant in discussions on the PHP internals list. He is the founder and lead developer of the Phorum project, the first PHP/MySQL message board ever created.</p>
 				<h4>Phorum</h4>
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@@ -117,16 +117,16 @@ <h2>Workshops</h2>
 
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 				<h3>Lorna Mitchell</h3>
-				<p>Lorna is a PHP consultant based in Leeds, UK. She has a number of years of experience in building and architecting professional web applications for a variety of clients and working with individuals and teams to improve their skills. She currently consults on PHP related topics, specialising in technical areas including web services and data migration. When she's not consulting, Lorna can be found presenting at conferences and writing/editing for a variety of outlets including her own blog lornajane.net and techportal.ibuildings.com.</p>
+				<p>Lorna is a PHP consultant based in Leeds, UK. She has a number of years of experience in building and architecting professional web applications for a variety of clients and working with individuals and teams to improve their skills. She currently consults on PHP related topics, specialising in technical areas including web services and data migration. When she's not consulting, Lorna can be found presenting at conferences and writing/editing for a variety of outlets including her own blog <a href="http://lornajane.net">lornajane.net</a> and <a href="http://techportal.ibuildings.com">techportal.ibuildings.com</a>.</p>
 				<h4>Web Services</h4>
 				<p>Come along to this in-depth session covering all aspects of web services; if you want to bring your laptop and "play along" as we go, you can grab the sample code and join in!  We will cover the concepts behind web services: data formats, service types, HTTP, troubleshooting, and how to put all this together in PHP to consume services.  Finally we'll go a step further and implement a service ourselves.  Expect anecdotes, war stories and some commandments for things you should never do when working with services.</p>
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 				<h3>Joël Perras</h3>
-				<p>Joël is a CakePHP core alumni and a founding developer of Lithium (http://li3.rad-dev.org/), a web application framework that hopefully doesn't suck. Joël is also a self-proclaimed über-nerd, and a data junkie - in his free time, he tries to make sense of the tangled, wonderful mess that is today's web.</p> 			
+				<p>Joël is a CakePHP core alumni and a founding developer of <a href="http://li3.rad-dev.org/">Lithium</a>, a web application framework that hopefully doesn't suck. Joël is also a self-proclaimed über-nerd, and a data junkie - in his free time, he tries to make sense of the tangled, wonderful mess that is today's web.</p> 			
 				<h4>Lithium</h4>
-				<p>Frameworks come in all shapes and sizes, with some touting themselves as being "lightweight" or "micro-frameworks", and others brand themselves as a more "full-stack" solution. With Lithium, a new PHP 5.3+ framework, there's nothing stopping you from having both. In this tutorial, we explore how to trim down lithium to a lightweight, highly performant RESTful JSON & XML API that can fit in a single file. No hair-pulling required.</p>
+				<p>Frameworks come in all shapes and sizes, with some touting themselves as being "lightweight" or "micro-frameworks", and others brand themselves as a more "full-stack" solution. With Lithium, a new PHP 5.3+ framework, there's nothing stopping you from having both. In this tutorial, we explore how to trim down lithium to a lightweight, highly performant RESTful JSON &amp; XML API that can fit in a single file. No hair-pulling required.</p>
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