sponsors
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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
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.
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
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.
network social sponsor
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
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'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 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, 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.