If you don’t know Josh Holmes, come to TEK·X and meet him. Officially is a UX Architect Evangelist for Microsoft. Unofficially though, he is the Microsoft Ambassador to the PHP community. More than a few community members can credit Josh for helping them with problems or just finding answers and contacts within Microsoft.

Cal Evans sits down with long-time friend and tech recruiter Scott Gordon to talk about jobs and recruiting.

Everyone says “I could build that in an afternoon/weekend/marathon session of caffeine-fueled code-debauchery” but to actually do something well, unsurprisingly, it usually takes longer. Blue Parabola’s own Keith Casey takes a look at a forum built in only 964 bytes.

Doctrine 2’s first beta release is out. We will take a look at how this Orm lets you almost ignore the existence of a database.

We are happy to announce the release of the April 2010 issue of php|architect, in which we cover PHP in the real world. In this issue you will also find our new JavaScript Corner column that lays down the foundation for more advanced subjects coming in the near future.

Bonus: wondering what the magazine looks like now that we’re electronic-only? Take a look at a free article, “Drupal Corner: Creating Custom Displays with Views”

Of course it’s desirable to write concise code, but don’t assume this always equates to fast code.

“Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself” by Watts S. Humphrey is Addison Wesley’s latest book on managing the software development process. Click through and see what our own Cal Evans thinks about it.

Kristina Chodorow talks about scaling MongoDB.

If you’ve only ever used a framework to do data-driven or object-oriented programming, you might not know as much as you think. Read why it’s important to learn object-oriented programming and SQL…even if your framework does all the heavy lifting for you.

Adobe’s new Flash Builder 4 comes with a shiny new wizard-driven data access interface. How does it measure up to the “old-school” way of interfacing to remote APIs? Our own Cal Evans investigates.