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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. »»»

Most PHP developers are very used to working with relational databases such as MySQL, but have you looked at the new document-based databases yet? We are very happy to announce Kore Nordmann, developer of (amongst other things) PHPillow and Arbit, will come to Antwerp to tell us about CouchDB and how to use it with PHP. »»»

Legacy code, it is a problem a lot of us face. Your solution would be to preferably rewrite it, but unfortunately this is not always possible. But each problem has a solution. We are very excited to announce Rowan Merewood will be discussing this common problem for PHP developers at the PHPBenelux Conference 2010 in his talk "Living with Legacy Code". »»»

Any web application that grows beyond a few pages will likely add a way to search through the content on the site. Doing an efficient search with lots of different aspects taken into account requires more than a simple LIKE clause in your database query. Search is therefore an important thing that should not be taken lightly. PHPBenelux crew member Paul Borgermans will do a presentation on using the Apache SOLR project to take care of your search needs, explaining about what SOLR is and what it can do for you, and how to use SOLR in combination with your PHP application.»»»

We are very proud to announce another new speaker tonight: Lorna Mitchell. Lorna is one of the leading women in the PHP world, being involved in PHPWomen, one of the organizers of the annual PHPNW conference in Manchester, and combining all that with a busy job at Ibuildings. »»»

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.»»»

Cloud computing is hot everywhere, and also in the PHP world. Whether Ivo Jansch is hot we'll leave to those willing to judge that, but after seeing his submission "PHP and the cloud" we were anxious to have Ivo aboard. So we're very happy to announce that Ivo will be speaking at the PHPBenelux Conference 2010. »»»