Trying to grow the PHP market

Sometimes recruiting efforts yield very nice results.

As of this week, Mikko Koppanen works in our Ibuildings UK team. Mikko is known from his Imagick extension, a wrapper to use ImageMagick in PHP.

The nice thing about this is that now we finally have someone on board who knows how to write PHP extensions.

A few weeks ago, Stefan Koopmanschap joined our Dutch team. Stefan is, among other things, in the board of the Dutch PHP User Group, and maintains the Dutch Symfony site.

With these 2 additions to our team, our PHP army is growing steadily, allowing us to continuously improve our support to companies in the UK and The Netherlands that are taking PHP seriously. PHP is rapidly moving into the realm of big corporations, and this means that there's a lot of demand for PHP professionals.

In the past weeks, we've been in contact with several major Dutch websites that are planning to move from java or .net to PHP, which is a very good sign.

Also, we've started working with several Computer Science institutes to add PHP to their curriculum. Most of them are already doing things with PHP, but often this is limited to very basic applications, a CMS, a blog etc. We're now helping them to breed better PHP programmers by teaching proper OO, Design Patterns, MVC, frameworks etc.

Traditionally, these institutes have been Java and .NET oriented, and we hope this will help show more people how PHP is a viable language for serious web applications.

[marketing mode] If you want to join us in our efforts to bring PHP to the business world, we still have openings [/marketing mode]

Tags: business, computer science, jobs, PHP, recruiting

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