In This Edition
New Whitepaper: PHP on Windows
Concerns over ICT staff training
New Whitepaper: PHP on Windows
As a regular subscriber to the Ibuildings newsletter, you will now have access to all Ibuildings whitepapers before everyone else! We will inform you by email as soon as a whitepaper is available for download, as part of our bimonthly newsletter.
Our first whitepaper, PHP on Windows, discusses options that are available for installing and managing PHP on a Windows server. It also reviews several commercial and open source tools that can make the process easier.
Concerns over ICT staff training
The latest ICT Inquiry, published by e-skills UK, makes an interesting read of the concerns and needs of IT managers with regards to staff training.
Common problems identified include:
- Understanding exactly what training is needed among ICT staff
- Finding good value training
- Finding training that can be delivered flexibly
How can these issues be tackled in the world of tight project deadlines and ever-decreasing training budgets?
Read moreEnterprise Content Management: what's new?

Event: IMS 2009
Date: 1st to 3rd December
Location: Olympia, London
IMS is a must-attend event for IT professionals interested in enterprise or web content management, content publishing, digital asset management, intranets and web 2.0 technologies.
IMS contains a free seminar programme dedicated to the latest content management topics, running for three days. One of the talks will discuss Content Management Strategy & Software Selection, presented by Ibuildings' CTO Ivo Jansch.
Register now for free!Buongiorno Italia!
After months of frenetic preparation, Ibuildings has opened its doors in Milano, Italy. Our UK and NL teams are now complemented by a group of top-notch web professionals providing all Ibuildings services to Italian organisations leveraging the power of PHP.
We are especially excited about the IBM System i / i5 experience that our Italian colleagues have brought on board. Expect to hear lots of interesting new things happening around this powerful technology in the near future...
Visit the Italian websiteSearch
Recent Blog Entries
Migrating a development team to an OO team
Outlining challenges of putting object orientation in practice within development teams.
Based on open vacancies, PHP seems better able to withstand the economic slowdown than other languages.
Working with IBM System i?
The i7 framework combines the power of System i, the flexibility of PHP and the productivity of the PHP business framework, ATK. Benefits include:
- Code minimisation
- High efficiency
- Focus on implementing business logic
- Modular construction
- Out-of-the-box, but 100% customisable
Upcoming PHP Events
PHP North West 2009
10th October
ZendCon 2009
19th to 22nd October
PHP Barcelona Conference
30th to 31st October
International PHP Conference
15th to 18th November
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