This week’s interview with Andrew Sampson is a perfect example of what we are trying to accomplish. Andrew produces stephenfry.com, actor/writer/polymath Stephen Fry’s website. By his own admission (although we suspect he’s just being modest), Andrew is not a technical person, but thanks to PHP and WordPress he and a small team run a website that handles tremendous amounts of traffic while working with someone like Stephen Fry, who travels constantly and therefore needs to be able to work in a distributed environment.

Interviewing Andrew was a real treat, and we hope that you enjoy listening to how stephenfry.com came together and runs as much as we did.

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Andrei Zmievski has been developing and tinkering with web-accessible software for more than a decade. He is a well-known personality in the PHP community, where his accomplishments include being a long-time core developer and member of the PHP Group, the author of PHP-GTK, a co-author of Smarty, and the architect and lead developer of the Unicode and internationalization (i18n) support in PHP 6.

Andrei enjoys learning new things and sharing what he has learned. He is a frequent speaker at web conferences around the world such as OSCON and International PHP Conference, a co-author of the PHP Developer’s Cookbook, and is also a well-read blogger at zmievski.org, where he writes about PHP and other topics.

Some little known facts about Andrei:

• His twitter nick is simply “a” which results in him getting lots of “sitting @a bar” or “eating @a restaurant” mentions.
• He is a native of Uzbekistan and came to the US to study when he was 16 years old.
• He is an avid beer brewer and his homemade brew is award winning.
• He recently became an official US citizen.
• His unicode t-shirts are a big hit with il8n fans.

We are thrilled to have Andrei with us for the second half of the tour. He will be speaking on VIM, Regex, and distributed systems with PHP. You will not want to miss these!

In this episode, which shall henceforth be known as the one where Marco discovers that the gain doesn’t set itself on his microphone, our host and guests discuss the PHP-related news of the last two weeks:

• Train Your Employees – Brandon Savage
• Forty Percent!
• If You Code, You Should Write

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In this episode, which shall henceforth be known as the one where Marco forgot to turn off Skype’s notification sounds and ElizabetH called in from a WWII-era u-boat, our host and guest discuss what’s new in this fortnight’s events of the PHP community:

• Gender in IT, OSS, & PHP, and How it Affects Us *All*
• Keith’s blog post, titled Web development and failures
• What is the value in Zend Studio?
• Samuel Folkes’ Where Has All The PHP Gone?

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