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Wednesday, 10 September 2008Building a PHP Center of Expertise
About this time last year, we had the pleasure of announcing the launch of our UK office. I'm very proud of the team we have built there (we have about 20 very talented people in our London office), but our growth hasn't stopped there.
This year we're going to do something similarly challenging, but completely different. We've grown from a development company into a PHP services company, and we managed to attract really smart and inspiring people from the PHP community. We've also been supporting user groups and organized conferences and seminars. We're about to take those activities to the next level. We are going to build a 'PHP Center of Expertise'. This department within Ibuildings will focus on all activities that have to do with PHP knowledge. Among those activities are:
Also our own open source products, such as the ATK framework, will become part of the Center of Expertise. If there's anything that you would expect from a 'center of expertise' that we may have missed, feel free to leave a comment. We're trying to build something that will be of use to many people in the PHP world. In the coming months we will be working hard to set this up. Expect a more formal announcement early next year! Oh, and we'd like a cool name for the center as well; if you have an idea, feel free to post it below. Share         Trackbacks
Cal Evans Director of Ibuildings Center of Expertise
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Very cool initiative! With such an amount of talented people at Ibuildings that already are doing those community related things, I can only say congrats to Ibuildings for supporting employees and with that, the PHP community as a whole.
As for the name, exPHPertise? 
Another great Initiative by Ibuidlings ! You guys rock at delivering top-notch PHP business without forgetting the community.
So, when is Cal sitting at Ibuildings recording his php-abstract podcasts ? Maybe that might be also a good idea, to bring the European PHP information to the people with podcasting, webinars or other online interactive initiatives. BTW, exPHPertise has my vote too.
Congratulations Ivo, sounds like an excellent initiative. I would think you would want to include something about fostering best practice methodologies: unit testing, continuous integration, etc. (or even more fundamental: using source control). There are clearly plentiful bad practice examples in the wild, it would be nice to have a "Best Practice" example to show.
Keep up the good work.
I definitely look forward to the new initiative! Especially to the training material as I want to dive very deep into PHP and I feel that this new initiative can get me deeper.
"Best practice" as Jason mentioned would be very helpful for me and lots of PHPers out there as well as all subject you mentioned in the post. It would be great to be able to learn more about software engineering in relation with web development.
Wouldn't be a good idea to sync this effort with Lukas Smith's emPHPower? Whatever happens is welcome and it will help to show for others the PHP is currently a mature language and has all the tools which make it enterprise ready.
That's not a bad idea, although I thought Lukas specifically mentioned that businesses weren't able to join. But I'll get in touch with him, surely there are ways to cooperate.
Nice! This is another great idea I wish I had thought of. Good luck.
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