meeting

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.»»»

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.»»»

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. We have no schedule yet, so if you're interested in presenting something, send us an e-mail at info@phpbenelux.eu.»»»

For October, we again have a very nice meeting planned, this time at the Netlog offices in Gent. The meeting will go through on tuesday, October 13th, starting at 19:30h. This month's venue is located right in the centre of beautiful Gent, Netlog was kind enough to provide us with this venue and they are even sponsoring the drinks during and after the event. This promises to be a great PHP event once again! »»»

We are very happy that the schedule for the september meeting in Tilburg is now complete! Aside from Stefan Koopmanschap, whom we announced earlier, we are very proud to announce that Juliette Reinders Folmer will also be speaking at our meeting.»»»

On tuesday 29th it is once again time for our monthly meeting. This month, our meeting is in Tilburg, at the offices of Freshheads. And Freshheads is not only hosting the event, but also sponsoring the drinks during the event and will even take us for a nice drink afterwards! »»»

In the past week we've held two events. On wednesday there was the meeting in Houthalen, and on friday the PHP BBQ in Leusden. Both events were a succes from out point of view, with many attendees, great talks and a good atmosphere. But we also want to know how you felt about it!»»»