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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]