Tuesday, January 5. 2010
2009 just ended, and since we've only just commenced work in 2010, there's still time to look back at 2009 and see what events have shaped the way we work with PHP and what happened in the general PHP ecosystem. PHPdeveloper.org has a nice overview from a community perspective. I'll cover some community aspects briefly as well, but will focus on the broader PHP ecosystem, including its adoption in the enterprise and industry participation.
Tuesday, June 23. 2009
Part of the mandate for the PHP Center for Expertise inside of Ibuildings is an ongoing series of Business Process Re-Engineering projects. The first of these projects, "Estimating Best Practices", was recently completed and released. It contains the collected best practices from estimators inside Ibuildings, as well as input from external experts and published works.
Our estimating team spent two months thinking and discussing how software companies create estimates; we discussed what works and what doesn't. While the final document itself, along with the accompanying workbook, are available internally only, some of what was learned about the meta process of estimating may be interesting to others. Here are four Best Practices that came out of the process that we want to share with everyone.
Continue reading "Best Practices in Estimating"
Tuesday, May 5. 2009
PHP is at an inflection point. We are at a once in a lifetime place where several factors are coming together to help boost the profile of PHP up and above the "scripting language" label and into a serious tool for enterprise development.
Many developers inside the PHP community have looked at PHP as serious development tool for years. Major companies like Digg, Expedia, Yahoo and facebook are trotted out during every discussion of PHP to prove what a useful tool PHP is. However, companies like Ladbrokes, Channel Five, Fiat, Panasonic, and the BBC, all use PHP as not only their backend glue language but for serious, enterprise level, transactional workflow systems. In a growing number of large development shops, PHP has gone from "why" to "why not".
Monday, August 4. 2008
Following the success of our two PHP seminars in London, we have decided to make it a tour and to visit other parts of the UK and Ireland as well. Next up are Leeds and Dublin - come and meet us in your city! Find out more about our events below.
Early-Bird Offer: Sign up for any of our events by 15th August, and receive a free copy of the new php|architect book on Enterprise PHP Development, written by our CTO Ivo Jansch!
Continue reading "PHP Events in the UK and Ireland"
Thursday, July 17. 2008
 This week it was finally delivered and I had the honor to receive the first copy of the book in our office. I'm talking about php|architect's "Guide to Enterprise PHP Development" written by my dear colleague Ivo Jansch. Last year he confided in me, said he wanted to write a book. And he actually did, within the year, 275 pages describing the complete development life cycle. For each phase in the development cycle, Ivo describes the common pitfalls, ways to get around them and tools others use to keep things running smoothly. Because Ivo covers the whole development cycle there should be interesting pieces for every software developing company.
You can find more information about the book on the book's official website. And find out what others think about this book here and here.
Monday, May 26. 2008
Over the last month I've been to quite a few of the GeekUp events which are local to me in Leeds, UK. These are where a selection of technologically-minded people get together, usually have a few small presentations, and then mostly chat and drink beer all night. I've been to these events as both a visitor and a speaker, and met lots of people and learned a lot.
The month started with a visit to the Leeds Geekup in April, where I gave a talk entitled "Enterprise Web Development" - the slides are available on slideshare.
Thursday, May 15. 2008
So we decided that in order to get to see all the people who are interested in PHP leadership topics, we should run an intimate seminar and invite our contacts along. If there is demand, we could run these every month. Here is the invitation that went out:
Free Seminar: Enterprise PHP and Zend
Title: Enterprise PHP and Zend
Date: 10th June 2008
Time: 9:00 - 13:00
Location: King's College London (Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Speaker: Ivo Jansch, CTO of Ibuildings and leading PHP expert
Continue reading "Intimate PHP Seminar"
Friday, April 18. 2008
Last week I read a book covering SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). I thought I'd share some thoughts with you. " Understanding Enterprise SOA" (Manning Publications), is written by Eric Pulier en Hugh Taylor. The target audience for this book are managers and technical architects.
Working with web services, SOAP and mashups with Google maps or flickr, I was anxious to learn more about the architectural part of setting up an SOA in applications. Using webservices is one thing, but designing them in an application environment (which usually contains more than one service component) is another. Maybe because of my technical background I was hoping to get some more insight in how you design SOA applications from a functional analyst and technical architect point of view, but as it turns out, the book is more useful for managers than for technical guys.
Sunday, September 30. 2007
After building a solid company here in the Netherlands for the past 8 years, we are now ready to take the company to the next level: Ibuildings has now become Ibuildings International, with main offices in the Netherlands and United Kingdom.
Our mission is to deliver PHP Software Services and Products for the enterprise market in Europe. By expanding to the UK we will be able to deliver to UK companies the PHP expertise we've build here in the Netherlands.
We will focus on delivering the right mix of software tools, methods, experience and knowledge to more and more companies that are investing in PHP technology for their business critical systems. It's an exiting time for all of us both witnessing the HUGE growth of PHP usage in small, medium and very large companies around Europe, and to be part of that growing business community.
Next week I'll be attending the Zend/PHP Conference in San Francisco to learn how PHP is growing worldwide, and I look forward to sharing the highlights on this blog!
Tom
Monday, November 20. 2006
Met veel trots zijn we bij Ibuildings vandaag onze benoeming als officiele vertegenwoordiger van Zend Technologies aan het vieren. We hebben met veel plezier de afgelopen maanden deze strategische samenwerking voorbereid, en hebben de afgelopen maand al vele bedrijven bezocht in deze nieuwe rol.
Behalve dat we dit als een belangrijke stap zien om PHP verder te laten groeien in de breedte maar ook in de 'enterprise' markt, is het vooral ontzettend leuk en inspirerend om samen te werken met een succesvolle internationale organisatie met een heldere visie op webtechnologie. We staan direct in contact met de uitvinders en bouwers van PHP en de Zend software zelf, en delen mee in hun visie op de toekomst van PHP en webtechnologie.
Op vele vlakken dragen de mensen achter Ibuildings deze visie concreet uit en bouwen we aan een sterke positie van PHP als technologie in Nederland. Samen met Zend en onze eigen organisatie van zo'n 40 professionals kunnen we de technologie inzetten op enterprise-niveau.
De komende maanden gaan we ook werken aan het bouwen van een community van Zend gebruikers in Nederland. Een van de doelen van Zend is om te leren hoe PHP professioneel wordt ingezet bij de verschillende gebruikers, welke uitdagingen men heeft en welke successen behaald zijn. Zend gebruikers kunnen in deze nieuwe community hun ervaringen met PHP en Zend delen.
Graag zie ik u als professionele Zend/PHP gebruiker in deze community terug! En laat vooral ook uw reactie achter op onze benoeming onderaan deze blog!
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