Wednesday, November 28. 2007
Trying to grow the PHP market
Sometimes recruiting efforts yield very nice results.
As of this week, Mikko Koppanen works in our Ibuildings UK team. Mikko is known from his Imagick extension, a wrapper to use ImageMagick in PHP.
The nice thing about this is that now we finally have someone on board who knows how to write PHP extensions.
A few weeks ago, Stefan Koopmanschap joined our Dutch team. Stefan is, among other things, in the board of the Dutch PHP User Group, and maintains the Dutch Symfony site.
With these 2 additions to our team, our PHP army is growing steadily, allowing us to continuously improve our support to companies in the UK and The Netherlands that are taking PHP seriously. PHP is rapidly moving into the realm of big corporations, and this means that there's a lot of demand for PHP professionals.
In the past weeks, we've been in contact with several major Dutch websites that are planning to move from java or .net to PHP, which is a very good sign.
Also, we've started working with several Computer Science institutes to add PHP to their curriculum. Most of them are already doing things with PHP, but often this is limited to very basic applications, a CMS, a blog etc. We're now helping them to breed better PHP programmers by teaching proper OO, Design Patterns, MVC, frameworks etc.
Traditionally, these institutes have been Java and .NET oriented, and we hope this will help show more people how PHP is a viable language for serious web applications.
[marketing mode] If you want to join us in our efforts to bring PHP to the business world, we still have openings [/marketing mode]
P.S. this is a crosspost, since Planet-PHP is still fetching the old instead of my new one.
As of this week, Mikko Koppanen works in our Ibuildings UK team. Mikko is known from his Imagick extension, a wrapper to use ImageMagick in PHP.
The nice thing about this is that now we finally have someone on board who knows how to write PHP extensions.
A few weeks ago, Stefan Koopmanschap joined our Dutch team. Stefan is, among other things, in the board of the Dutch PHP User Group, and maintains the Dutch Symfony site.
With these 2 additions to our team, our PHP army is growing steadily, allowing us to continuously improve our support to companies in the UK and The Netherlands that are taking PHP seriously. PHP is rapidly moving into the realm of big corporations, and this means that there's a lot of demand for PHP professionals.
In the past weeks, we've been in contact with several major Dutch websites that are planning to move from java or .net to PHP, which is a very good sign.
Also, we've started working with several Computer Science institutes to add PHP to their curriculum. Most of them are already doing things with PHP, but often this is limited to very basic applications, a CMS, a blog etc. We're now helping them to breed better PHP programmers by teaching proper OO, Design Patterns, MVC, frameworks etc.
Traditionally, these institutes have been Java and .NET oriented, and we hope this will help show more people how PHP is a viable language for serious web applications.
[marketing mode] If you want to join us in our efforts to bring PHP to the business world, we still have openings [/marketing mode]
P.S. this is a crosspost, since Planet-PHP is still fetching the old instead of my new one.
Tuesday, October 23. 2007
PHP4 to 5 migration webinar
Tomorrow I'm doing a webinar for Zend: I will be talking about migrating from PHP4 to PHP5. I won't go into the technical details so much, but I will talk about why to migrate and how to migrate. I will talk about both the benefits and the risks.
It's at 9.00 am PDT (18:00 CET), and you can enroll through the Zend site. (It's free)
Oh and it's live, so you have the opportunity to ask questions.
It's at 9.00 am PDT (18:00 CET), and you can enroll through the Zend site. (It's free
) Oh and it's live, so you have the opportunity to ask questions.
Links
About me (linked-in profile)
ATK homepage (my business framework)
ibuildings.com (daytime job)
epointment.com (my 'dotcom')
frekfly.com (my other dotcom)
simulism.org (weird thoughts)
ATK homepage (my business framework)
ibuildings.com (daytime job)
epointment.com (my 'dotcom')
frekfly.com (my other dotcom)
simulism.org (weird thoughts)
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