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In this first half of our two part interview with David Zülke, he discusses Microsoft’s recent efforts to engage the open-source community, as well as what he sees as some of their biggest competitors — namely Amazon and Google. David also notes that Microsoft’s efforts do seem to be moving in the right direction, and [...]

This is Guy Barrette, a .NET developer from Montreal who wears many hats: in addition to being the President of the Montreal .NET Community, he’s also a Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region, an MVP for ASP/ASP.NET, and the host of the Visual Studio Talk Show.
We caught up with Guy at Confoo where he [...]

This is an interview that our very own Alexandra Bonan conducted with Morgan Tocker from Percona. Morgan is a bit of an expert on MySQL because he used to work for MySQL, and Alex caught up with him at Confoo where he gave a presentation on MySQL, as well as a couple 8 hour work [...]

While we were at Confoo, NVI also got a chance to sit down with Joey Devilla from Microsoft Canada. It was nice to meet Joey because we’re we’re currently working on a project with Microsoft called Make Web Not War. The project is actually a conference on interoperability, and there’s also a contest component [...]

This is an interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar (aka @digibomb), an open-source web developer. We caught up with Brendan the night before Confoo at the pub that all the speakers were hanging out at. Brendan was scheduled to give a presentation, as well as sit on a panel. He told us about his new project, CreerMag.com. [...]

Meet Sebastian Bergmann, a co-founder of thePHP.cc and the creator of PHPUnit.. We caught up with Sebastian at Confoo, where he was giving a presentation on PHPUnit. For those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t until I met Sebastian), PHPUnit is the de-facto standard for unit testing PHP applications. Sebastian discussed with us [...]

This is an interview with Jonathan Wage from SensioLabs.com. We met Jonathan at Confoo where he delivered a presentation on Doctrine 2 for enterprise level web development. Doctrine is an ORM (object relational mapper) for PHP 5.2.3+. One of its key features is the ability to optionally write database queries in an OO (object oriented) [...]

Another one of the Confoo speakers we got to chat with was Cory Fowler, a developer from Innosphere.ca. Cory was giving two presentations at Confoo, and both of them focused on how developers can use Windows Azure for their cloud computing projects. We discussed what Cory sees as some of the key advantages to using [...]

Meet Paul Reinheimer, the Lead Developer at Mansef. Paul gave a presentation at Confoo last week on PHP development at the enterprise level — i.e. building sites and apps that can handle some serious traffic. We caught up with him after his presentation and Paul took some time to discuss with us what developers should [...]