The CloudWays blog has posted another in its series of interviews with members of the PHP community. In this latest article they talk with Stefan Priebsch of thePHP.cc (a consulting company) and some of his experiences, past and present, in the world of PHP.

Today, We are honoured to have Stefan Priebsch for this interview. He is a cofounder of thePHP.cc, a well known PHP consulting firm. He is also an entrepreneur, university lecturer and a thought leader in modern software application architecture. Stefan specializes in PHP powered enterprise applications and has built an enviable reputation as one of the best trainers in Germany.

Additionally, Stefan speaks regularly at international PHP conferences and wrote a book PHP 7 Explained with Sebastian Bergmann and Arne Blankerts. In this interview, he talks about his career, PHP 7 ebook and the latest developments in the industry.

In the interview Stefan answers questions about the benefits of the PHP 7.x releases, his work at thePHP.cc, his book, what development tools he uses and how he spends his free time. You can read his answers to these questions and more in the full interview.

On 7PHP.com today there's a new community interview, this time with Stefan Priebsch, one of the founders of thePHP.cc and well-known speaker.

In this edition I talked with [Stefan Priebsch @spriebsch] who is one of the Elite members of The PHP Consulting Company, thePHP.cc. He is regarded as a highly knowledgeable gentleman, has rewritten an array of books related to Software Development and software life cycles; in short Stefan is an acclaimed expert for PHP software development. One of his talks which I highly recommend is “Why MVC is not an application architecture“. Fortunately it’s a video, so you will be able to both see and hear Stefan talk about it.

They talk about Stefan's current involvement with the language and community as well as some of his own past. Topics include:

• How he sees the state of PHP now versus when he started with the language
• What kinds of tools he uses for his development and debugging
• What he likes and dislikes about the language
• Some of his good (and bad) moments in the community and at conferences

You can read the full interview here.

For those that weren't able to make it to either the PHP Unconference Europe or the PHP Days training that followed, Lorna Mitchell has posted her retrospective of the two events, briefly covering her experiences as both an attendee and speaker.

I spend most of the last week or so over in Manchester for a combination of excellent PHP-related events: PHP Unconference Europe on Saturday and Sunday (with a rather excellent warm-up party on Friday night!), followed by the PHP Days training on Monday and Tuesday.

She talks about the voting process at the unconference (the scientific "stickers" method) and her talk that was voted in - "Speaking Tips for Developers". She also talks about the PHP Days training where the members of thePHP.cc presented on best practices, good development, security, etc. (audience's choice).

If you're going to be attending this year's International PHP Conference you'd do well to check out some of the sessions thePHP.cc will be doing during the event.

There's ten different sessions given by the different members of the trio:

• Your Tests are lying!
• Why MVC is not an application architecture ...
• Introduction to Testing with Selenium
• Practical PHP Refactoring
• Agility and Quality
• State of the Mocks
• Security by Design
• XML with PHP: The Hidden Gems
• Hand in Hand: Dynamic and Static Testing
• Beautiful Models

For more information on these sessions or just about the conference, see the main conference site for full details.

According to this new post on his blog Stefan Priebsch, Sebastian Bergmann and Arne Blankerts have joined forces to create thePHP.cc, a PHP consulting group.

In times of tight budgets, quality is a key success factor to reduce risks in IT projects. [...] We help businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular. We support our clients in improving their employee’s qualification to overcome skills shortages.

You can get more information about the group (including conferences they'll be at and contact information) from their site - thePHP.cc.