The CloudWays blog has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this latest post they talk with Rafael Dohms, originally from Brazil but now in the Netherlands and founder of several PHP User Groups.

Rafael Dohms is a very active person in PHP Community. He has more than 15 years of experience in PHP web development. This Brazilian guy moved to Netherlands to explore new horizons in development and user groups, as he believes in power of user groups. He has created 3 PHP user groups including AmsterdamPHP, PHPDF and PHPSP.

Rafael has contributed in various projects including Symfony, Doctrine, and has helped in both support and documentation. He also believes in sharing of knowledge and for that reason, he is a passionate teacher who believes in empowering new developers. He has been a speaker at different conferences of PHP in all over the world.

In the interview Rafael answers questions about:

• how he got started with PHP
• what role he plays at his job with Symbid
• some about the user groups he helped to start
• his Composer book

...and more. They also talk about Rafael's views on the future of PHP, frameworks, other members of the PHP open source community and PHP 7. Check out the full interview for his answers to these and more interesting questions.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted its latest episode in its series of community interviews. In this new episode host Cal Evans talks with Rafael Dohms, well-known PHP community speaker and founder of the Amsterdam PHP User Group.

They talk about his work with the user group, how it's currently going and the new things they're doing to draw more people into the group. They also talk about the Netherlands region and the up-and-coming speakers and talent coming up in the area. They also talk some about Rafael's "Object Calisthenics" talks and the ideas behind it.

You can listen to the full interview either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the interview be sure to subscribe to their feed.

JetBrains has announced a webinar they'll be holding on June 11th at 4:00pm CEST (10am EDT) with host Rafael Dohms covering annotations in PHP.

Annotations are more than PHPDoc comments, they’re a fully-featured way of including additional information alongside your code. We might have rejected an RFC to add support into the PHP core, but the community has embraced this tool anyway! This session shows you who is doing what with annotations, and will give you some ideas on how to use the existing tools in your own projects to keep life simple. Developers, architects and anyone responsible for the technical direction of an application should attend this session.

Space for the webinar is limited, so if you're interested in attending be sure you sign up quickly. There's no charge for the event, you'll just need to provide a bit of information prior to signup.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode - Episode 21: Attack of the Brazilians with two Brazilians, both now located in Amsterdam.

This week author of ”Vagrant CookBook” Erika Heidi and serial usergroup creator Rafael Dohms join the show to talk about… well, all of that. Two Brazilian PHP developers now living in Amsterdam, tell their stories and talk about what they do.

They talk about how they both ended up in Amsterdam, various Vagrant-related topics and some of its upcoming features. You can catch this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or through the live video recording.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released its latest episode - an interview with Rafael Dohms of the Amsterdam PHP user group.

Cal's three questions for Rafael about his involvement in the community:

• Tell us about your experience integrating with a whole new community when you moved from Brazil to Amsterdam
• Talk to us about Amsterdam PHP
• Talk some about how the leadership of the user group is set up ("enablers")

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

On 7php.com there's a new interview with a member of the PHP community - this time it's with Rafael Dohms, formerly of the Brazilian PHP community, he now lives in Amsterdam and is active in the European PHP scene.

In this edition I talked with Rafael Dohms ( @rdohms ), The Brazilian PHP Evangelist. He is to the PHP Community and specially to The Brazilian PHP Community, what Brazilian Ronaldo is to the Football World! He has founded two PHP user-groups and is seen as an AWESOME active member of the PHP Community; he is also an active contributor to some conspicuous open-source PHP projects as you will found out for yourself in this interview. Rafael is very passionate about helping out fellow developers generously; you can read more about him on his personal website/blog.

In his answers, Rafael talks about things like:

• Some of his first experiences with PHP (including a CounterStrike clan website)
• His recommendation of the book "The Art of Readable Code"
• His favorite conference (hint: It's in Chicago each year)
• His recommendation for less arguments in the community
• Thoughts on PHP 5.4 and its features
• Some of his experiences with both starting and being a member of various PHP user groups

You can read the full interview here.

On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. This time it's Rafael Dohms, a member of the Brazilian PHP community.

Cal's questions for Rafael are related to

• The Brazilian PHP community has an umbrella organization that supports the local communities - can you describe how this works?
• Can you explain the differences in the communities between the two countries [USA and Brazil]?
• What one thing from the Brazilian PHP community would you like to see other communities use?

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.