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A Different Kind of Conference: the PHP Community Conference

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:46 UTC

For those who have been following along, you’ll know that I helped organize a mini-conference for PHP, along with Elizabeth Naramore, in the Fall of 2006. It was little more than an excuse for a small group of people to get together, “kamp,” talk shop, and have fun—and it was a lot of fun. It [...]

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Ben RamseyZend Certified Engineer

About Ben

Ben Ramsey is a software architect, author, and speaker. He works at Moontoast, the Social Commerce Network.

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Moontoast Is Hiring Senior PHP Developers

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 0:16 UTC

Moontoast, the company where I now work, is looking for senior PHP developers. This is an on-site (Nashville, TN), contract position that could potentially develop into a full-time position. If you’re interested, let me know, and send your resume to hr [at] moontoast.com.

Moontoast is a social commerce network for people to pursue and promote their [...]

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Rebooting Nashville PHP

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:29 UTC

I recently moved to Nashville, and as part of that transition, I’ve taken the helm as the new organizer for the Nashville PHP user group. I posted what follows to the Nashville PHP mailing list, but I thought it would be a good blog post. Enjoy!

Six years ago, I founded the Atlanta PHP user group [...]

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Blasting Off with Moontoast

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 3:58 UTC

Since I announced on Twitter that January 15 would be my last day at Schematic, I’ve received many positive responses and much encouragement. The biggest question, though, was where I would be going next.

My decision not to be very public about where I was going had nothing to do with being secretive or stealthy. Instead, [...]

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PHP Advent 2009

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 5:34 UTC

Six years ago, I became aware of the PHP community. I joined it three years prior to that.

I’m privileged to be a part of the 2009 edition of PHP Advent. This year, my post is about the PHP community. If you have any comments, feel free to leave them here.

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Microsoft Web Dev Summit 2009

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 6:30 UTC

For the past three years, Microsoft has hosted the Microsoft Web Development Technology Summit, inviting a small group of community leaders, project developers, and prominent members of the PHP community, primarily for the purpose of eliciting feedback on how to better support PHP on Windows. I’m privileged and honored to be invited back for a [...]

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CodeWorks Wrap-up

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:36 UTC

I never wrote about days 13 & 14 of CodeWorks, nor did I post the slides on October 7, like I promised to attendees of my talks. After CodeWorks, my website underwent weird spikes in traffic, causing it to be extremely slow. I thought the problem was DreamHost, so I moved everything to a slice [...]

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POST vs. PUT

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:07 UTC

This morning, Matthew writes about building RESTful services with the Zend Framework. I have a lot of thoughts on his post, and I might blog more about it later, but right now, I want to focus on David’s comment:

I think the next thing you should cover is how to retrieve put parameters and maybe even [...]

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Building Titanium with PHP

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48 UTC

Several months ago, I started the process of embedding PHP into the Titanium platform. After several sprints of work, the Appcelerator team was finally ready to merge my work into their master branch, and Martin Robinson worked to bring the implementation to maturity. The current release of Titanium Developer does not yet have the PHP [...]

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CodeWorks Days 11 & 12 (Washington)

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:51 UTC

Departing Miami, I gazed upon the Atlantic Ocean as we cut through the clouds, making our way farther from the shore, and the thought occurred to me that this tour—these two weeks—has taken me from sea to shining sea across this great country. What a fitting thought to have as this next leg of the [...]

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