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Cloud Out Loud Interview with the Authors of PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code »

Created at: 28.12.2011 02:05, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community php

We’re glad to release this podcast we did with Davey Shafik, Lorna Mitchell, and Matthew Turland, the authors of a new book by Sitepoint called PHP Master: Write Cutting-Edge Code.

You can read more about the podcast, check out related links, and have a listen at the Engine Yard Developer Center.

Thanks much to the authors for participating. You guys rock!

Future of PHP: Pear/Pyrus Panel Discussion »

Created at: 16.11.2011 22:24, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community php

We hope that you will join us in a live panel discussion on the Future of PHP: PEAR/Pyrus. This marks the first in our series, where we talk with project and community leaders in the various areas of PHP about what’s in store for the future.

When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm EST

Where: Register for details

Who: David Coallier, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson, Brett Bieber, Till Klampaeckel 

We will be taking questions live, so we hope that you can join us! As a reminder, you’ll have to register beforehand in order to receive the login information.

ZendCon After-Party: PHree Beer and Good Company »

Created at: 18.10.2011 23:19, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community events

To celebrate the fact that Orchestra has joined the Engine Yard family, we are throwing our first ever PHP Conference after-party tomorrow! If you will be in Santa Clara for ZendCon, come on out to the Faultline Brewing Company.

After-Party: PHree Beer and Good Company
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Faultline Brewing Company, 1235 Oakmead Parkway, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Full details here.

Shuttles will be picking up attendees from the Santa Clara Convention Center beginning at 6:45pm and spiriting folks away to our epic soiree. Grab some tasty appetizers and one of Faultline's specialty brews (or a few--shuttles will be running throughout the night).

Do you have a cool PHP app you want to deploy on our platform? This is also a great opportunity for you to get some face time with the experts on the Orchestra team (@davidcoallier, @EamonLeonard, @gwoo, @h) to discuss how they can make your project "sing."

See you there!

It’s All About JRuby »

Created at: 23.09.2011 19:56, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community events Open Source javaone jruby san francisco jruby meetup

[caption id="attachment_10652" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo courtesy of Flickr user veganstraightedge*"][/caption]

On the tails of an excellent San Francisco JRuby meetup last night, we're delighted to be heading to JavaOne in a few weeks. JavaOne is October 2-5 and is held right in our backyard in downtown San Francisco. The multi-track conference is devoted to innovative developments and cutting edge implementations of Java. Naturally, we'll be dishing up all the sweet, sweet JRuby goodness you can handle.

Nick Sieger will be kicking it off right on Monday, October 3 with a talk about how you can add Ruby agility to your Java web stack.

On Tuesday night, October 4, be sure to stop by Engine Yard HQ around 7:30 for even more face time with the JRuby core team at our JavaOne after-party. Socialize with your fellow conference-goers and JRuby enthusiasts of all kinds at our rooftop penthouse. Don't miss special presentations by JRuby experts--drinks, snacks and networking will follow.

On Wednesday, October 5 our own Jacob Lehrbaum and Mike Piech will give you the inside scoop on how to leverage JRuby in your cloud-centric business. Tom Enebo, Charles Nutter and Dr Nic Williams will also be out and about repping JRuby, so don't be afraid to stop by the Engine Yard booth to discuss this awesome technology with the foremost experts over a beer. Great giveaways and prizes await!

JRuby will also be a contender again this year in the JavaOne Script Bowl! With competitors weighing in from the Clojure, Groovy and Scala sides, we need the community behind us to give JRuby the righteous victory it deserves. Come check it out on Wednesday, October 5 at 8:30am at the Hilton San Francisco, and judge for yourself which scripting language supplements your Java platform best. Support Dr Nic and the JRuby core team as they show off the latest and greatest in JRuby.

Lastly, for any interested JRubyists who missed the JRuby Jam virtual session last week, you can now watch the full presentation and view the slides.

JRuby Jam Session from Engine Yard on Vimeo.

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating JRuby virtually, or better yet, in-person!

*I <3 JRuby shirt photo courtesy of Flickr user veganstraightedge.

Fáilte Orchestra Contest Winner: Daniel McOrmond’s Irish Orchestra.io Tweets »

Created at: 21.09.2011 00:45, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: community Contests events contest funconf php

It's with pleasure that I announce Daniel McOrmond as the winner of our Fáilte Orchestra competition.

Daniel's "Irish Orchestra Tweets" entry is a dead simple app that takes the tweet-stream from the @orchestra_io Twitter account, displays them against a cringe-worthy 'oirish backdrop, and translates them to what appears to be an American's interpretation of what an Irish accent sounds like.

I mentioned last week that we wanted the "smartest, wittiest or most-charming" app, and Daniel's entry was most fitting. We really felt that it was in the spirit of the competition: combining some nice cheesy Irish humour with a nice little application of technology. Nice work, Daniel! We'll see you in Ireland for Funconf!