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| Paul is the Sales Director of our UK branch. Before entering Sales, he collected 15 years of experience in technology and projects, giving him a solid understanding of the challenges our customers face. |
Monday, June 23. 2008Post-conference thoughts
It is over a week since the Dutch PHP Conference, and I thought I would have plenty of time to gather my thoughts on the event, and put some wise words down. But since things are as busy as ever in the UK office, I guess this will have to do...
Conference organisation seemed top-rate to me - no one was looking lost or wondering what to do - all went very smoothly, and the sheer number of attendees was very impressive. Overall, people left with a great impression of Ibuildings, which is fantastic, and it seemed like our black polo shirts were everywhere, talking to each other and of course the community. For a lot of us, and especially the UK team who are spread around the country, it was fantastic to just wander (stop there - I've heard them all before) up to someone and find out that we work together, putting faces to names. I know a lot of irc goes on, and several UK people met their online friends in realtime, which is cool. In terms of the Ibuildings culture, I think it is important that we all meet up as
much as possible, so I really look forward to more events like this. So far, this years's growth in the UK has been a real joy to witness; we have such great talents at Ibuildings that we should all be proud, and I want to secure projects to show-off existing skills, and of course to create new areas of expertise. As we start to win more UK work, our delivery methodology wil mature, which will enable us to be more certain of delivery (on time and to budget), and also means more thinkng time for us up front as an investment in our future. I look forward to this challenge immensely. A couple of the talks at the conf. caught my eye:
Since we are competing with Ruby for project work at 'five', I want to mention that I believe our corporate stance on Ruby is spot on; we like the purity of the language, but we still focus purely on PHP and associated languages since there are far more opensource components out there, and we are sure that PHP scales, with some great examples. Ivo tells me that 4 out of the top 10 UK sites are in PHP, with no other language having more than 2 entries. This speaks volumes. Share         Comments
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4 out of the top 10 (UK or other) sites may or may not run on top of PHP.
Why not - it's a great tool. But how many of these sites also rely on underlying features (mysql as a database, unix as the infrastructure, etc.. ?) You can't do every trick in the book with php only. So... how many of these 10 sites rely on php only ?
None, but that's not the point. The point is that 4 of those sites use PHP, as opposed to asp.net, perl, java etc.
Sure, there's always a stack. But we're a PHP company, so that's what we focus on (and brag about  ).
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