The CloudWays blog has posted their latest in their series of interview with members of the PHP community. In their latest they talk with Ligaya Turmelle about PHP Women, Oracle, MySQL and php[tek].

Ligaya Turmelle is a MySQL support engineer at Oracle and a co-founder of PHPwomen. She has also attended Oracle conferences as a speaker. In this interview, she shares her experience as a speaker and has also offered her advice on creating a schema of a database and deploying it.

In the rest of the interview Ligaya answers questions about:

• When and why she made the switch from PHP to database developer
• Some of her advice as a speaker to those wanting to speak
• What some of her key roles are at Oracle working with MySQL
• Suggestions for optimizing databases and preventing them from becoming "resource hogs"

Be sure to check out the full interview for her answers to these and other questions.

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!