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While we were at Make Web Not War last week, we got a chance to sit down and chat with Garrett Serack. He’s a software developer who works in the open-source technology center at Microsoft, and his job is to help open-source technologies run better on Windows.
During our chat, Garrett offered some advice for [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Let’s Start to Work in HTML5”. During this session, speaker Benoit Piette gave an overview of what’s to come in HTML5 and how to implement it and begin trying out its supported features.
Speaker: Benoit Piette
Let’s Start to Work [...]

The final session we attended at the Make Web Not War conference yesterday, was called “Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of jQuery as a substitute. For this session, speaker Nathaniel Bagnell explored the features of CSS3.
Speaker: Nathaniel Bagnell
“Cascading” into CSS3: Exploring the features of CSS3 and the use of [...]

Another one of the sessions we attended at the Make Web Not War conference today, was called “Why Just One Isn’t Good Enough.” During this session, the panelist discussed the advantages of being able and willing to develop websites in/with both Microsoft and open-source technologies. The panelists included:

Moderator: Jeremy Wright
John Oxley
Guillaume Bouchard (our CEO)
and Julian [...]

Here is the second and final part of our interview with Joey Devilla from Microsoft Canada. In this clip, Joey discusses Microsoft’s overall open-source strategy. Specifically, he shares with us how Microsoft’s philosophy has evolved, and that the company’s current efforts mean for open-source developers. He also goes into detail about Microsoft’s open-source department functions [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

This is an interview we did with Stefan Koopmanschap, a PHP developer from the Netherlands. We met Stefan at Confoo where he was giving two presentations: one presentation addressed the myths surrounding the Zend framework, and the other one covered how to use the Symfony and Zend frameworks together on the same project. Stefan shared [...]