PHP UK Conference 2012

Sponsors

If you're interested in sponsoring this year's conference, please see our sponsorship page.

Zend Technologies

Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, is the leading provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical applications in PHP. Businesses utilizing PHP know Zend as the place to go for PHP expertise and sound technology solutions. Zend's founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski are key contributors to PHP and the creators of the core PHP scripting engine, the Zend Engine. Because of their internationally recognized expertise, the company continues to provide important leadership for PHP and other open source communities, and plays a central role in the explosive growth of PHP.

Zend’s industry-leading PHP solutions, including Zend Server and Zend Studio, are deployed at more than 40,000 companies worldwide, including eBay, Best Buy, Cisco Webex, Fiat, France Telecom/Orange, NYSE Euronext, UBM, Villeroy & Boch and other renowned brands.

Bytemark Hosting

Bytemark are the UK's geek hosting outfit of choice, supplying virtual machines, dedicated servers and completely managed deals to any enterprise clever enough to put technology enthsuaists at the helm. For managed customers, we know how to keep modern web technologies up and running, and help you pick out bugs in your code and problems in your deployment. For everyone else we provide e-mail and phone support from Linux experts, root access, free backup space, DNS hosting and SMS watchdogs - all from £15 per month.

O'Reilly

Publisher of the iconic 'animal books' for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organiser of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

DeskPro

Engine Yard / Orchestra

Engine Yard is the leading cloud platform for Ruby on Rails and PHP. Trust Engine Yard’s automation, service and expertise to build, deploy and run your applications.

IPC Media

IPC Media is the UK's largest consumer magazine publisher with an unrivalled portfolio of household brands, selling over 350 million magazine copies each year. We also publish over 40 websites which collectively receive 250 million page views per month. We're based on London's Southbank in our purpose built state of the art HQ.

Our award winning digital team is currently 70 people strong and growing fast. Within it is one of the largest PHP development teams in London. The team is composed of highly skilled back-end and front-end engineers, systems administrators and product managers. Working together we manage and develop our web technology in-house, building on best of breed open source technologies.

If you would like to work with some of the best in the industry contact recruitment@ipcmedia.com and ask about our current vacancies.

Tangent Labs

We are Tangent Labs, the team charged with the development of all of Tangent Snowball’s technical projects. We take the pretty pictures, words and promises of the client services teams and turn them into rocking ecommerce sites, complex web applications, mobile apps and integrated platforms.

Basically, we’re the technical brains behind the lovely Tangent Snowball agency veneer. Some of the clients we develop for include SAP, The Labour Party, hive.co.uk and Carlsberg.

If you have tack-sharp analytical skills, experience in PHP or Python and you want to work somewhere that fosters ingenuity together with a team spirit then send your CV to ideas@tangentsnowball.com. Be sure to include a covering letter with a note on what tricky problem you’ve solved lately or something neat you’ve invented.

Webdigi

Webdigi is a PHP web development agency. We work on complex and high traffic web applications. We leverage open source technologies, cloud services, caching systems and automated testing to produce:

- Bespoke web applications
- Facebook applications
- Mobile optimised websites
- Centralised reporting and web app management systems

Clients who entrusted us with their mission critical web applications range from the British Film Institute and government funded agencies to established businesses looking to streamline their business processes online.

If you have a project you want to discuss, send us an email at contactus@webdigi.co.uk. If you are looking to work on exciting projects reach us at phpjobs@webdigi.co.uk.

DBVu

DBVu is a centralised database monitoring and performance analytics service (think Google Analytics [tm] but for databases with helpful advice when problems are found) each server monitored will be available through a dashboard with overview graphs that are suitable for management and drill-down information suitable for more technical users. So DBVu is providing remote DBA services.

The customer needs to install an open source simple set of scripts that are securely polled by DBVu, the script then connects back to DBVu via SSL and pulls all the required database data, connects to the database servers, builds an XML file which is sent back to DBVu for analysis. The client requires zero maintenance after install and uses very low resources.

Based on a freemium model, every customer gets 30 days of full service and during that time can elect to pay. If the customer doesn't pay, they'll get reduced polling and no drill-down info, but still getting useful information about what their databases are doing.

DBVu is working with various consultancies (including DBVu itself) so customers who can't fix their own problems will be able to request help, the customer can also elect to make their (read-only) data available to the consultancy who can than see any issues before they go on site or remotely access the servers, so reducing the time required to fix problems.