Posts by: Cal Evans

• PHP Vikinger Session: Notes From the PDM June 5, 2009

  On May 30th, 2009, eZComponents hosted the third annual PHP Vikinger Unconference in Leuven, Belgium. Among the speakers there were Derick Rethans and Scott MacVicar, both of whom were at the recent two day "PHP Developers Meeting" in Chicago, IL, US.

   

  Scott MacVicar and Derick Rethans discuss the PHP Developers Meeting from Cal Evans on Vimeo.

   

  This 40 minute video is them discussing the notes that were taken at that meeting, and what is coming for the future of PHP.

  Andrei Zmievski blogged about the same notes recently in his post titled "PHP Developers Meeting Notes". He finished editing them and they are now available for public review on the php.net wiki.

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• Announcing the European WinPHP Challenge March 23, 2009

   

  Microsoft, Ibuildings and Leaseweb are proud to announce the European WinPHP Challenge.

  We love giving stuff away to developers. So we are really happy to be able to announce that our friends at DPC09, Microsoft, and Leaseweb have come together with us to sponsor the first ever European WinPHP Challenge.

  We want you to build your next Open Source project on IIS7/PHP and win prizes.

  First prize is airfare, hotel and a ticket to MIX10 in Las Vegas, NV-US!

  Come help us celebrate the great progress that the PHP Windows team has made in making PHP a First Class citizen on Windows. Be a part of what I'm sure will be an annual event for years to come.

  Details can be found here on the DPC09 Wiki

  Registration opens April 2nd and you must register before April 15th to participate.  Winners will be announced during the closing keynote at DPC09.

  Check out the wiki for full details and contest rules and please help us spread the word.

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• Welcome to techPortal February 16, 2009

  On behalf of all of the developers at Ibuildings, I would like to welcome you to our new home on the web. techPortal is the place where we will talk about PHP. We work on a lot of interesting projects and get to work with a lot of cool technologies. Our goal with techPortal is to share what we learn with the wider PHP community. Our hope is that you will visit often, read about the technologies with which we are working, and some of it will spark your imagination.

  Ibuildings believe that Information is only valuable when it is shared. When something you read here helps you, make sure and share what you learn on your blog as well.

  As we share what we learn, we are always looking for new article ideas. If you have an idea for a topic that you would like to see covered on techPortal, drop us a line at techPortal@ibuildings.com.

  Almost all of the articles you will see on techPortal will be written by Ibuildings' developers. We realize that there are a lot of smart developers out there who do not yet work for us. If you have an idea for an article you would like to write for techPortal. All you need to do is visit out Vacancies page and apply for a position. A job offer from Ibuildings is also an open invitation to write for techPortal.

  All of us at Ibuildings hope you learn something from the articles we post and will become part of the conversation.

  Sincerely,
  Cal Evans
  Editor-in-Chief, techPortal