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This is the second half of our interview with David Zülke. David is the lead developer for the Agavi Framework, and we caught up with him at Confoo where he delivered several presentations.
In this clip, David delves into the nuts and bolts of the Agavi and the various advantages it offers developers who use [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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