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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) [...]

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 [...]