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Ivo Jansch is CTO of
Ibuildings, a UK and Netherlands based company that offers development
services, training and consultancy on PHP throughout Europe. Ibuildings
is the official Zend partner in the UK and The Netherlands. Ivo often
delivers consultancy and training on behalf of Zend and is currently
writing a book on 'Enterprise PHP' for php architect. He is an active
blogger in the PHP community, and the author of the PHP business
framework 'ATK'.
Stefan Esser, born in 1979, lives in Cologne, Germany, where he is
the lead security researcher of SektionEins GmbH, a company specialised
in web application security.
Stefan is known within the security community for numerous security advisories about vulnerabilities in many open and closed source software packages. However his special field of expertise is the security of PHP and PHP applications. He is a contributor to the PHP source code for 7 years and he is the main developer of Suhosin, which is a security extension for PHP.
He is also the co-author of a german book about PHP security and has written security articles for PHP Architect and the International PHP magazine.
Scott is the lead developer of the SQLite3 extension and the ImageMagick
PHP wrapper (imagick). He also helps with LibGD and the core in between.
Currently Scott is one of the core developers of the PHP forum
application, vBulletin. Topics of interest at the moment are image
manipulation and web application scalability with databases.
Mike is currently one of the core developers of the PHP forum
application, vBulletin. Having been involved with vBulletin since 2000,
he moved from Pennsylvania to the UK in early 2006 to join the team at
their offices. Mike has a specific interest in lexical analysis and
general data parsing techniques. When not developing, Mike spends his
time making people think he can play the drums.
Marcus has been online since 1987, raiding Usenet for info on building
synthesisers for his computer science and electronics degree. After
many years in tech support, training and multimedia production (with a
year out to do a masters in interaction design), including a stint at
Apple UK, he founded Synchromedia Limited with Andrew Mann in
1999.
Initially focused on panoramic VR photography, Synchromedia moved into QuickTime-based marketing widgets that needed an email delivery mechanism, so in 2003 he knocked together a few PHP scripts to provide one. Synchromedia soon realised that the delivery mechanism was more compelling than what they were delivering, so the product turned upside down and Smartmessages.net was born. Smartmessages now delivers over a million email messages a week for the likes of ebookers.com, The Daily Telegraph and other customers in 12 countries, using 70,000 lines of PHP.
Marcus also does the odd spot of freelancing, recently handling system and database design and administration for Google's carbon footprint gadget and the related AMEE carbon calculator engine. When he's not in front of a bunch of monitors, Marcus plays his home-built electronic drum kit, is something of a skiing nutter (aiming to break 100mph before he turns 40), goes mountain biking, and likes playing with his wife and 2 kids. Every now and again he gets around to ranting or documenting something on his blog.
A software engineer working for IBM, her current
interests are in Open Source development and in particular in writing
tests for PHP.
In the past Zoë has worked in many areas of the IT industry, she started as a FORTRAN programmer, worked on parallel systems for numerically intensive computation and managed a data archive for the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. More recently she has managed development teams working on IBM’s JVM and on Open Source implementations of the Java Class libraries.
Ant is a software developer in IBM's Java Technology Centre. His
current focus is on Project Zero, a simple environment for creating
dynamic Web applications. Project Zero integrates a runtime supporting
the PHP language which is optimised for REST style services, integration
mash-ups and rich Web interfaces.
Before joining IBM, Ant was the technical lead at Exony, an innovative startup based in Newbury, UK. In previous lives Ant worked for Sony and Microsoft and thoroughly enjoyed visiting Tokyo, Seattle and several places in between. In his spare time he plays as much sport as his wife and two children let him get away with.
Rob Allen has been programming with PHP for over
seven years and is a member of the Zend Framework community. He is a
contributor to the Zend Framework, developing the Zend_Config component
with the help of many ideas from the mailing list. He has also written a
popular getting-started tutorial available from www.akrabat.com.
He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham and started out writing C++ Windows applications. He now concentrates solely on web-based applications in PHP. Rob is the Technical Director of Big Room Internet concentrating on the company's content management framework and future technologies. He can be found on the Internet at Akra's DevNotes.
Toby Beresford is a freelance Facebook
specialist. He specialises in Facebook applications and runs the
Facebook garage
In 2007 he released four Facebook applications, all using the CodeIgniter framework, for clients including Comic Relief, Global Name Registry (.name), The Bizmo and Isaved Cashback UK.
He has been developing in PHP for 6 years and the CodeIgniter framework for 8 months. Further details can be found at: www.tobyberesford.com
I started programming PHP during my days at
Plymouth University, where I graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Computer Systems
and Networks.
I'm currently a Technical Manager for VoIP-4-U (http://www.voip.co.uk) - and have worked for a number of ISPs in the past doing a wide range of tasks, from all levels of support up to ISP systems implementation. I'm also a Linux system administrator.
I'm involved with Doctrine (first commit 2006-08-15, so 18months ish), and started using Symfony 2 years ago. I initially started using Symfony after beginning development of my own framework, and getting fustrated with the constant feel of wheel re-invention. My first site written with Symfony was the rewrite of http://www.thinkbroadband.com (formerly ADSLguide.org.uk).
My website is http://pookey.co.uk, where you can also find my resume and CV.
Derick Rethans has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP
project, including the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug
fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as project leader
for the eZ components project for eZ systems A.S.. In his spare time he
likes to work on Xdebug, watch movies, travel and practise photography.
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