A little over 2 years ago we started our company blog, mainly to share our experiences and show off cool stuff we were doing. By now, it has become the most popular area of our website, and looking back I can see we have had a nice mix of technical articles, case studies, reviews, conference reports and 'php in business' posts.

Today, we are moving another step forward. Last year we announced our PHP Centre of Expertise to promote the professional use of PHP. One of the first visible results of the PCE initiative is our new techPortal.

About this time last year, we had the pleasure of announcing the launch of our UK office. I'm very proud of the team we have built there (we have about 20 very talented people in our London office), but our growth hasn't stopped there.

This year we're going to do something similarly challenging, but completely different. We've grown from a development company into a PHP services company, and we managed to attract really smart and inspiring people from the PHP community. We've also been supporting user groups and organized conferences and seminars.