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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.»»»

Not able to attend the PHPBenelux Conference 2010, but you would like to see what is going on? Check in to the Live reporting page where Stijn Janssen will be reporting live during today's conference, from the start until the end. The live report is sponsored by Nocus, who graciously provided a netbook for our live reporter to do his reporting on.

We have a surprise for our delegates: In collaboration with Nocus we have set up a special Live Reporting system for those that were unable to grab a ticket for the conference, to be able to get a good idea of how the conference is and what information the delegates are getting from it, in the hopes that those that do not attend can also get this information. And one of our delegates will be able to take the role of journalist at our conference to do a live report!»»»

Representing one of our main sponsors, Zend, we added Eric Ritchie to the schedule. But don't be afraid for boring sponsor-talk, because Eric is consultant and trainer for Zend and will be giving us a highly technical talk about generating PDFs using Zend Framework and the JavaBridge. From concept to implementation, he will fill a 30 minute slot jampacked with awesome technologies. »»»

There is less than one week left until the conference, and every single member of the crew is getting more and more excited about it. We're really looking forward to the conference and seeing all of you there! But what is a conference without a social event?»»»