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phplondon would like to thank the following sponsors in helping to stage the conference and contribute back to the community.

Premier Sponsors: Zend & IBuildings

Visit the Zend website After our positive experience at the PHP London conference last year Zend are proud to attend and sponsor the PHP London conference again this year. Zend's success relies on the successful, vibrant and engaged open-source community built around PHP. We dedicate thousands of hours and significant financial resources to help open source projects. Think of it as Zend's way to stay involved and in touch with the community and businesses who build solutions using PHP. Zend Developer Zone is a community-driven site devoted to increasing the understanding and success of PHP in modern software development, laden with articles, forums and tutorials.

Zend's mission is to enable PHP as a world-class language for large-scale enterprise solutions. Deployed at more than 20,000 customers worldwide, Zend's product suite provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire PHP application lifecycle. Products include: Zend Platform, Zend Studio, and Zend Core. In addition, we offer consultancy services through our certified partner, Ibuildings UK. Whether your needs are training, development or consultancy, we are geared up to support you.

Visit the IBuildings website Zend are proud to connect you with Ibuildings.com, the leading PHP professionals both in the UK and the Netherlands, as our premier representative. Ibuildings deliver solutions to organisations that develop and deploy mission-critical internet technology based on PHP. Ibuildings' strength lies in a deep knowledge of, and total focus on PHP. As the service arm of Zend in the UK and The Netherlands, Ibuildings deliver Zend certified training courses, PHP application audits, and also provides first-class technical PHP consultancy.


Gold sponsor: PayPal

Visit the PayPal website With over 15 million user accounts in the UK and over 164 million worldwide, PayPal is the preferred online payment brand in the UK*. With a suite of payment products to choose from, the PayPal Integration Centre (www.paypal.com/integration) provides all the resources you need to build payments into an e-commerce website or application. With PHP being our most popularly downloaded SDK and widely used by our Developer Community (www.paypaldeveloper.com), PayPal are delighted to be sponsoring the PHPLondon Conference 2008. If you have any questions about PayPal or ecommerce in general, we will be exhibiting on the day so come over and say hello!

*PayPal Q3 2007 Brand Tracker, conducted by Factworks. PayPal is preferred by 27% of online shoppers versus 26% for Visa, 11% for MasterCard, and 1% for Google Checkout.


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Allegis

Allegis Allegis Group is a member of the Allegis Group Inc network of companies, one of the largest staffing firms in the world. Founded in 1983, Allegis Group is ranked the sixth largest in the world and the second largest in the United States. Currently, Allegis Group has over 80,000 active contractors, 8,000 internal employees, and nearly 250 office locations in Europe, the U.S, Canada and Puerto Rico. Allegis Group works with large national, international and global firms as well as local and regional companies in Europe.

As an IT and communications staffing industry leader, Allegis Group provides outstanding technology staffing, infrastructure and applications solutions and other related technology services delivered with the best customer service in the business. We specialise in placing people in the following fields:

Applications
We have opportunities for business analysts, creative architectural and software designers and professionals with a wide range of skills in all stages of software development.

Communications
We provide CLECs, ILECs, carriers, OEMs and non-telecommunications enterprises with wireless, landline, broadband cable technology and enterprise professional communications expertise.

Infrastructure
We can provide professionals over the complete spectrum of infrastructure needs: from installing, maintaining and supporting networks, to installing hardware and software, to providing help-desk support.

Allegis Group comprises a group of specialty service companies including: Aerotek, TEKsystems, Stephen James Associates, MarketSource and Allegis Group Services.


Bronze sponsors

PlusNet

Visit the PlusNet website PlusNet is a multi award-winning ISP based in Sheffield. We use LAMP and other open source technologies for our entire software platform, including our customer facing portal and back-end business systems. We invest heavily in the automation of our business operations, and this helps us maintain low product prices for our customers. PHP is at the heart of our industry-leading platform, so we're delighted to sponsor this event and support the number one web development language.

We're always looking for good PHP software engineers, so don't be shy to apply. All our vacancies are advertised at www.plus.net/careers


ActiveState

ActiveState ActiveState's award-winning Komodo IDE features autocomplete and calltips not only for PHP, but also for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in PHP files. There's also local and remote PHP debugging, Smarty template support, HTTP Inspector, JavaScript debugging, intelligent tools for regular expressions, plus source code control integration and project management support assists team development.

Using more than PHP? Komodo IDE also features award-winning support for Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. With Firefox-style extensibility and flexible multi-platform licensing, Komodo IDE has developer freedom in mind. Find out more www.activestate.com/phplondon08


O'reilly

O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organizer 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.


Pakt Publishing

Packt Publishing Packt, pronounced Packed, published its first book Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management in April 2004 and subsequently continued to specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions

Packt’s books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give you the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies you're using to get the job done.

For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com


phplondon aims to promote and help build networks within the php community for London and surrounding area. By sponsoring the event your company shows a commitment to the php community in the UK and gives you excellent visibility to the many developers that make up the community in the UK and around the world.


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