7php.com has posted a new interview with a PHP community member today - this time it's Ivo Jansch (formerly of Ibuildings) now CEO at Eginiq, a mobile development company.

In this edition I talked with Ivo Jansch (@ijansch) ex-CTO of Ibuildings which is one of the biggest PHP service companies in Europe. Ivo is known for his involvement in evangelising the use of PHP technology in enterprise environments. He is also the PHP 5.x Certification Advisory Board Member at Zend Technologies. You can read more about Jansch on his blog.

The questions asked include the usual with a few extras thrown in:

• How did you start with PHP?
• To someone who wants to become a better PHP developer, what is your advice?
• How do you debug your PHP code, do you use something like xdebug or krumo..etc?
• In the next 5 years, how do you foresee the PHP ecosystem
• If you had to go back in time, would you still choose PHP?

Zend posted an official press release earlier today about some shifting happening in their senior management. Two individuals, Andi Gutmans and Mark Burton, have taken on new roles with the company.

Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced that it has appointed Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder, as its chief executive officer. Gutmans was most recently senior vice president for R&D and alliances at Zend, as well as chief technical officer. It also named Mark Burton, formerly executive vice president of worldwide sales at MySQL, as executive chairman. Harold Goldberg, who held the position of CEO at Zend Technologies during the past two years, will leave to pursue other opportunities.

The press release includes comments on both individuals. The PHP community is supportve of the changes too. Congratulations to Andi and Mark for their appointments to these new positions!

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode in their PHP Abstract podcast series - episode 36, an interview with Zend's CEO Harold Goldberg.

Today it is my privledge to present an interview with Harold Goldberg, the CEO of Zend Technologies. Harold brings more than 20 years experience in senior marketing, strategy and sales roles at top-tier organizations to Zend.

You can still catch the show in one of three ways - direct by mp3, use the in page player or, the popular choice, subscribe to the podcast feed to b notified when the latest episodes come out and have them hand-delivered for your listening pleasure.

According to this press release (as linked to by php|architect) notes the resignation of Doron Gerstel as President and CEO of Zend to move to Syneron Medical.

According to this press release (as linked to by php|architect) notes the resignation of Doron Gerstel as President and CEO of Zend to move to Syneron Medical.