At the ConFoo Conference this week, Paul Jones has released the stable version 1.0.0 of his Solar PHP framework. This stable version comes after 5 years of development and many contributions by others from the PHP community.»»»

Thursday march 4th 2010 (starting 18:30), the first regular PHPBenelux meeting in The Netherlands will be organized in the Microsoft offices at Schiphol as we announced earlier. We are happy to announce that there will be two premier speakers at this meeting.

The first speaker is Jan-Willem Eshuis. Jan-Willem is Lead developer and architect in the New Media department of dutch public broadcaster NOS. In this role, he is responsible for the technical development of all new media applications of the NOS. Within these applications, the "in house" developed Service Oriented Architecture has an important role.

The second speaker is Josh Holmes. Josh Holmes is a passionate soul who gets his kicks solving problems with deep fried awesomeness. He is currently employed by Microsoft as a UX Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a UX or Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region. Prior to joining Microsoft in October 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development with an emphasis on mobility and RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash. You can contact Josh through his blog at http://www.joshholmes.com.»»»

PHP|Architect is making it a tradition to do a series of webcasts before their PHP|tek conference. As they did last year, they again have an excellent schedule of webcasts ready for you in the coming weeks. The first one will feature Jonathan Wage of Doctrine fame.»»»

It's already February and time for our first PHPBenelux meeting in Belgium. We have a meeting arranged in Leuven on Friday, February 26 2010 at 19u30.

This meeting will be held at Café Sport, Martelarenplein 13, 3000 Leuven. Both presentation slots are now filled.»»»

Our friends in London are organizing their annual PHP Conference again. On Friday February 26th their conference will take place at the Business Design Centre in London. The schedule includes speakers such as Josh Holmes, Stefan Priebsch, Damien Seguy, Lorna Mitchell, Ian Barber, Juliette Reinders Folmer, Fabien Potencier, Rowan Merewood and Derick Rethans. It promises to be another great conference.»»»

Symfony Live is the only official Symfony conference in the world, organized by Sensio, the company behind symfony. The schedule is full of big names from the symfony community such as Fabien Potencier, Dustin Whittle, Dennis Benkert, Jonathan Wage, Kris Wallsmith and special guest Zend Framework project lead Matthew Weier O'Phinney.»»»

Microsoft and PHPBenelux are proud to announce a PHP on Azure event with no one less then Josh Holmes presenting "Leveraging Azure with non-Microsoft Technologies".

Josh will talk about the possibilities of Azure for PHP developers, how to use the Azure eco-system efficiently using your application's architecture and will discuss topics how to best use Windows Azure OS with Microsoft SQL Azure to set up your PHP application. During the meeting on march 4th in The Netherlands, a second speaker will join Josh: Jan-Willem Eshuis of dutch public broadcasting organization NOS will speak about SOA.»»»