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Soila Patajoki Marketing Manager |
| Soila is one of the creative minds of the Ibuildings marketing team. She handles the UK marketing activities, including our website, newsletters, events and conferences. |
Dinsdag, 14 oktober 2008Future of Web Apps 08
We just spent two fantastic days at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. There were so many PHPers around, most of whom we'd never met before, and it was so cool to hear about your current projects - there seems to be so much going on at the moment, despite the economic downturn! When we weren't playing with Microsoft Surface or riding the Sun "surfboard", we heard the founder of Digg bashing PHP - or at least announcing that they are moving some of their software into Python. The rumour says this is because of a need to use real threading and some other features that PHP cannot provide at the moment, and in that case - for those components - it's the right decision (it's as important to know when to use PHP, as it is when not to).
We also saw Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, who really is a master of answering questions without actually answering them. Myspace could have done a slightly better job with the somewhat dodgy conference WiFi (a two-day radio silence cannot be healthy for any self-respecting geek), but overall the event was very well organised and the crowd seemed to enjoy themselves.
During the event, visitors had a chance to take part in our raffle for a free one-day Zend Framework training. The second and third prizes, a Zend Framework certification voucher plus "php|architect's Guide to Programming with Zend Framework" by Cal Evans, were kindly donated by Zend. We will be announcing the winners on our website by 1st November, and the lucky ones will be contacted directly, too. And if you didn't get to go to FOWA, don't worry - we will be giving away another seat for the Zend Framework training at PHPNW, so you'll still have a chance to participate! Share         |
