Wez Furlong I am Wez Furlong, Chief Software Architect at Message Systems. We're responsible for building an awesome Messaging Platform.

I'm also a PHP Core developer and OpenSource contributor, residing in Maryland, USA with Juliette, Xander and Lily. (read more)

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Interviews

Book Contributions

Awards and Nominations

  • Oracle Magazine's PHP Developer of the Year 2005.
  • Nominee for the ActiveState ActiveAwards 2003 for contributions to the PHP programming language.

Publications

Conference Appearances

I have spoken or presented at the following conferences: (or will be)

OSCON, San Jose, July 2009
Getting IT done
php|tek, Chicago, May 2009
Getting IT done
Zend Conference, Santa Clara, September 2008
PDO: PHP Data Objects
OSCON, Portland, Oregon, July 2008
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Hot Chocolate: Writing Cocoa Apps in PHP
Extending/Embedding PHP
DC PHP Conference, Washington DC, June 2008
Panel: PHP Editor shoot-out
Zend Conference, San Jose, October 2007
Extending/Embedding PHP
Best Mailing Practices
OSCON, Portland, Oregon, July 2007
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Extending/Embedding PHP
php|tek, Chicago, May 2007
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Best Mailing Practices
Microsoft MIX, Las Vegas, 2007
Panel: Can't ASP.NET and PHP just get along?
Zend Conference, San Jose, October 2006
PDO: PHP Data Objects
php|works, Toronto, Canada, September 2006
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Best Mailing Practices
OSCON, Portland, Oregon, July 2006
PDO: PHP Data Objects
MySQL Users Conference, Santa Clara, April 2006
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Forum PHP, Paris, France, November 2005
PDO: PHP Data Objects
Zend Conference, San Francisco, October 2005
PDO: PHP Data Objects
php|works, Toronto, Canada, September 2005
PDO: PHP Data Objects
PHP and COM
PHP Streams (Lucky Dip)
OSCON, Portland, Oregon, August 2005
PDO: PHP Data Objects
php|tropics, Cancun, Mexico, May 2005
PDO: PHP Data Objects
PHP Streams (Lucky Dip)
php|works, Toronto, Canada, September 2004
PDO: PHP Data Objects
PHP and COM
Linux Tag Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2004
Introducing PECL
PHP|Cruise Conference, Bahamas, March 2004
Writing Socket Applications in PHP
E-Mail Manipulation and Transmission in PHP
Extending PHP
PHP{Con West Conference, Santa Clara, October 2003
Extending PHP
International PHP Conference 2003, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2003
The Revolutionary SQLite
PHP-Irssi - A case study for embedding PHP
Linux Tag Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2003
SQLite and PHP
International PHP Conference, Spring Edition, Amsterdam, May 2003
Streams and Filters

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