HipHop is out—and it has the potential of great impact within the PHP community. Here’s how and why.
HipHop is out—and it has the potential of great impact within the PHP community. Here’s how and why.
TEK·X’s Charter Ticket Program is a special kind of discount for a special kind of attendee. But why are we doing it?
Marco is a co-founder and one of the managing partners of Blue Parabola, LLC., a consulting firm that focuses on high-end development and architecture, with a particular focus on PHP.
Blue Parabola offers consulting in several areas of functional software development, including:
Information architecture
Web architecture
Open-source business strategy
Web development
PCI/Security auditing
Scalability and redundance
Fifteen years in the IT industry and ten years as an entrepreneur have given Marco a unique perspective on the world of software development: he can speak to developers about the business of programming, and to businesspeople about the technicalities of writing software.
Marco’s speaking style is informal, but to the point—usually accompanied by a carefully-crafted [...]
Members of the PHP community were invited to Redmond to discuss the happenings at Microsoft. Here’s a brief report.
During a trip to Seattle, I bought a brand-new eBook reader—and all I got is this really nasty heartburn.
A little e-mail from Zend sparks a few thoughts on the challenges of selling software in an open-source world.
If you need an excuse to try out PHP on Windows and win your dream HD system, here’s a really good one.
Writing slides is not a substitute for preparing a good presentation, no matter how many bullets you use.
It’s one thing to say that MySQL doesn’t belong in Oracle’s hands—and quite another to find another set of hands to hold it.