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30 Minutes with Jeremy Johnstone

I’ll have to admit that when I sat down to interview Jeremy Johnstone at OSCON I didn’t know who he was or anything about him. Most of the other interviews I at least knew who they were and what they had done with/for PHP. I had nothing on Jeremy, all I knew was that he was speaking at OSCON and he worked at Yahoo. As it turns out, it was a very interesting interview. Not for the normal reasons though. If you want more, you’ll have to come inside and read the interview.

Te Smith talks about ZendCon

One of the great things about my job is the people I get to work with on a daily basis. One of the people that make the experience so much fun is Ms. Te Smith. Te is managing the details of the coming ZendCon so I thought I’d call her up and see how things are shaping up. If you want more than that it will cost you a mouseclick.

Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey on the Zend Certification Exam Study Guide

The new Zend Certification Study Guide is out and the initial reviews look good. Since this was a topic of interest to me (mainly because I’ve yet to take the test) I decided to dig a little deeper. I fired up my recorder and called Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey, the authors of the new guide, to talk to them. Here to give you a little of the back story is our conversation. Click on inside and join us.

30 Minutes with Theo Schlossnagle

This is another in a series of interviews I’ve been conducting as I travel to different conferences. Most of the people I get the chance to interview are directly involved with PHP in some way. This interview is a bit different. Theo Schlossnagle is the founder of OmniTI, one of the premier PHP consulting companies in the world. OmniTI consults with companies all around the globe on issues ranging from architecture to security.

30 Minutes with Andrei Zmievski

Here’s the next installment the OSCON Interviews series. This time we talk with Andrei Zmievski of Yahoo. We talk about working at Yahoo, Unicode, PHP 6 and other interesting topics. Grab a cup of coffee and come on in as we sit down for “30 Minutes with Andrei Zmievski”.

An Interview With George Schlossnagle

George Schlossnagle’s un-official PHP Trading card describes him like this:
George Schlossnagle builds high performance email systems at OmniTI, Inc. He’s also a frequent contributor to PHP and has years of hands-on experience in building large-scale PHP sites and applications.
At OSCON06, I sat down and talked to him about email, PHP and performance. Read on to find out what he had to say.

30 Minutes with Adam Trachtenberg

This is another installment in the series of interviews I conducted at OSCON 2006. This one is with Adam Trachtenberg of ebay’s Web Services Department. It covers a variety of topics including his introduction into PHP, how he came to work at ebay, upgrading to PHP 5 and some forward lookng topics. Adam is the senior manager of Platform Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Click the magic [ more ] button to be transported to Portland Oregon for 30 minutes with Adam Tracthenberg.

Interview with Laura Thomson

One of the great perks of my job is that I get to sit down with people and talk about PHP. I’ll talk to just about anyone about how they are using PHP, what problems they have solved using PHP, or just about anything PHP related. However, most of you don’t care how my aunt implemented a PHP based photo gallery for the family so I’ll stick to publishing the interviews I think you will find interesting. Here is one of those interesting interviews.

Microformats, PHP, and hKit

Microformats are creating a lot of buzz these days and Drew McLellan wants to make sure that PHP developers aren’t left out. I recently interviewed him about microformats, PHP and his new toolkit, hKit, that glues the two together.

PHPDEVELOPER.ORG ADOPTS THE ZEND FRAMEWORK

Chris Cornutt, the developer behind phpdeveloper.org recently launched a major overhaul of his site. In addition to the sleek new look and feel, the underlying code was also rebuilt on top of the Zend Framework. I recently caught up with him for an interview. Click through to read more.