The Ibuildings group has officially launched their techPortal website - their new "home on the web" that'll provide resources to the community like articles and tutorials as written bu some of the Ibuildings staff.

Cal Evans (once again sporting the title of Editor-in-Chief) has this to say about the site:

techPortal is the place where we will talk about PHP. We work on a lot of interesting projects and get to work with a lot of cool technologies. Our goal with techPortal is to share what we learn with the wider PHP community. Our hope is that you will visit often, read about the technologies with which we are working, and some of it will spark your imagination. Ibuildings believe that Information is only valuable when it is shared. When something you read here helps you, make sure and share what you learn on your blog as well.

The portal has launched with the first article from Lorna Mitchell about memcached and how you can use it to make the load lighter for your application.

Here's a few other comments on the launch: the Ibuildings blog and Lorna Mitchell's blog.