Microsoft

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.»»»

We've said it before in the announcement of Ivo Jansch as a speaker, but cloud computing is hot! Microsoft, traditionally considered an outsider in the PHP world, is stepping into this market with their Azure offering, with an amazing support for PHP. We are very happy that we've been able to get the foremost expert on using PHP on Microsoft Azure as a speaker for the PHPBenelux Conference 2010: Maarten Balliauw.»»»

PHPBenelux is proud to announce that both Microsoft and Realdolmen are giving a session on PHP and Microsoft technologies.
Now Microsoft supports PHP on their platform, they have a huge set of tools and services valuable for PHP developers.
Come and join us at our meeting and see for yourself that there's a lot of cool stuff you can do using PHP and Microsoft services.»»»

On September the 7th, Hank Janssen will be in the Microsoft offices to explain somewhat more about the vision of Microsoft around Open Source Software and PHP 5.3 on Windows (50 min). The goal is to have that session followed by an interactive discussion with the audience (50 min). The audience will consist of the people in the room and those that are following the session live. If you wish to join us live or if you want to follow the session and ask questions from behind your PC, please send a mail to agency@microsoft.com and we will send you the details.»»»

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is an America-based multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[8][7] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software»»»

De Microsoft DevDays is een jaarlijks terugkerend evenement voor Microsoft (en gerelateerde) technologien. Dit jaar besteed Microsoft ook aandacht aan PHP in de vorm van vier presentaties. Pierre Joye zal spreken over het dat Microsoft en de community hebben gedaan om ervoor te zorgen dat PHP 5.3 fantastisch zal werken op Microsoft platformen. Maarten Balliauw en Kevin Dockx zullen spreken over integratie van PHP en Silverlight. Bram Veenhof presenteert de combinatie PHP en Windows en welke Windows features je erg leuk zal vinden, en waarom IIS7 zo goed is voor PHP. Stefan Koopmanschap zal een presentatie geven over de 5 essentiele tools voor iedere PHP developer op Windows.»»»