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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this second and final installment of our interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar, Brendan discusses his thoughts on Microsoft’s efforts to engage the open-source community. As he explains, at first he was a little skeptical, but the more he learned about what Microsoft was doing and who else was involved, the more he realized that Microsoft [...]

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 [...]