Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Matthew Weier O’Phinney for the Zend Framework Project

We recently interviewed Matthew Weier O’Phinney, technical lead for the Zend Framework Project. Zend Framework, a product of Zend Technologies, is an open source web framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Technologies was founded by two Israeli college students with a love for the PHP language. From humble beginnings to becoming a leading provider of products and services for developers around the world, learn about Zend's history and their aspirations for the future.

Listen and Learn:

• How Zend was originally envisioned 
• Zend Framework's competitors and what they're doing 'right' 
• Predictions surrounding the introduction of Middleware 
• Zend Framework's scalability and relationship with different environments 
• Various release strategies over time 
• How to take part in the community and become a contributor

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Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series of Interviews.  I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Matthew Weier O'Phinney, who is technical lead for the Zend Framework Project.  So, the obvious question to start out with here is, who is Zend, and what's the Zend Framework?

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Eli White from php[architect]

We recently interviewed, Eli White, co-owner of the popular tech journal, php[architect] and key influencer in the PHP world. php[architect] is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the world of PHP offering books, web training, and conferences aimed at spreading knowledge and unifying the community.

From PHP’s early beginnings to running 82% of the web today, learn about the creation and resurgence of this popular language.

Listen and Learn:

• How did PHP, with a seemingly “bad” reputation, became a fully featured object-oriented language? 
• What does movement towards cloud deployment mean for PHP? 
• How to get involved in your local PHP community/meetup group

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Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series and Interviews.  I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Eli White, who's one of the co-owners of php[architect] and a pretty big noise in the PHP world generally.  How's it going, Eli?

Eli White:                    All right. It's going well.

Stuart Langridge:       One of the things I want to talk about here is that PHP has something of a bad reputation, but it has a bad reputation among people who don't know anything about it. Specifically, the language as well as the structures have changed quite dramatically since a whole bunch of people wrote PHP in about 1999.  Can you talk a little bit about what's changed and how?