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Whew... it seems that some people misinterpreted the slides I picked from Tim's presentation. theserverside.com ("Your Enterprise Java community") did some kind of flame-bait for that, with Tim being unable to comment on for several reasons. Fortunately, Tim gives us a bit of context on his weblog.

[Update: I like thinking about PHP as in "PHP is the Borg". Whether we interface Cobol (yes, at Mayflower we did that), Java ($foo = new Java(...); ), Perl/Python, SAP, OpenOffice etc., it just doesn't matter. That's also what I like on the SOAP/XML-RPC etc. interfaces: I really don't have to care about the underlying protocols.]

Tim Bray, who - among many other things - co-edited the XML 1.0 and XML namespace definitions, was invited to the International PHP Conference to give a keynote about "How to combine PHP technology with Java based on Enterprise Systems". I had the pleasure to talk with him and I like his spirit. During his keynote, he presented some very interesting comparison between the popular development "frameworks" PHP, Ruby on Rails (RoR, Rails) and Java:

Of course you need to decide yourself which of those intrinsics is most important:

You can find his slides here. Thanks Tim for being at the Conference.

Live from the International PHP Conference this year, we have some announcements to make: first of all, we're now officially releasing the Chorizo! Intranet Edition. That's basically the full Chorizo! software package for your internal corporate environment, installed on one of your servers. Furthermore, you can scan an unlimited number of your own websites (we won't charge you for every server!) and create your own users inside the usermanagement. Besides that, of course Morcilla, the PHP security extension that detects deep security bugs directly on your server is included. The Intranet Edition is available for a license fee of EUR 5.800,-- including VAT (16% currently) for one installation. Support and updates are available for 20% of the license fee per year. If you're interested, just drop us an e-mail.

Second, we're launching an array of Professional Services: Security Audits. You can get them in different flavours, like the Chorizo! PenTest, the Chorizo! Standard Audit and Chorizo! Extended Audit. Automatic security scanning is good, but to get hardened web applications, Security Audits are your friends. You can download the product paper or drop us an e-mail for an offer. Clients already include the financial and logistics industry.

With the permission from Dr. Alexander Schwinn you can find the slides of his talk here.

Live from the Management-Day at the International PHP Conference 2006. Dr. Alexander Schwinn, eBay GmbH Germany and Manager Developers Program, is reporting some quite interesting numbers about the usage of eBay WebServices:

• more than 40,000 registered eBay developers world-wide
• more than 1,200 productive applications in DE
• 2002: less than 1 billion eBay WebService calls
• Q1/2006: 9,4 billion eBay WebService calls
• more than 53% of all ebay.com offers will be added through API applications
• more than 120 WebService methods available

An overview of eBay applications is available at applikationsverzeichnis.ebay.de. The PHP SDK is available at ebatns.codebase.ebay.com

He explained some innovative applications that have been developed with the eBay API and showcased a self-developed plugin for Skype (written in PHP) that integrates current eBay auctions as a new tab into Skype. Another application eBay Germany has developed for eBay France an application with PHP where you are able to create your own eBay desktop (with some nice Drag&Drop through AJAX) similar to Pageflakes.

There are also eBay clients available inside the Microsoft Media Center Edition where you can bid for eBay offers through Media Center. Pretty cool.

To be continued...

Yesterday I had a Power Workshop (6 hours) about large projects with PHP. You can find the (German) slides here.

Besides that, there were some very interesting talks in the evening at the hotel bar together with the almighty Stefan Esser, Christopher Kunz and Johann-Peter Hartmann. Today is the second pre-conference day, at 10.00 o'clock I will give the opening talk at the Management Day (with speakers from IBM, eBay, SAP and others) about the business opportunities with Web2.0 and PHP. Tomorrow, the main conference will start with a lot of great sessions.

Zitat des Tages von Dr. Volker G. beim Sinnieren über Fibonacci-Extrapolation und der Wahl zwischen roter und blauer Pille: "Das ist dann die Möhrenmatrix".

If you happen to be at this year's International PHP Conference 2006 which will start this Sunday, and are creating content of whatever form (be it photos, videos, slides etc.), don't forget it to tag it with the tag "ipc06". Check regularly at Flickr, Technorati, Del.icio.us, this blog and others.

Hope to see you there!