2004 PHP Quebec Conference

Cyril Pierre de Geyer

Anaska (Session)

President of the French association of PHP users.
Manager of the websites phpfrance.com and phpteam.net
PHP Teacher: Polytechnique Paris/EPITA
Author of a PHP book (March 2003)

Utilisation professionnelle de PHP

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Edward H. Trager

Gladiator Project (Session)

M. Trager am a Bioinformatics Programmer working in two laboratories in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the W. K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Kellogg is a world-class vision research center with approximately 17 basic research scientists and over 50 research staff. His Open Source programming experience began in earnest when he developed *Madeline*, a C/C++ program for preparing and visualizing human pedigree data used in genetic linkage studies. Madeline was released under a GPL license in 2001. After Madeline, he developed *Cicada*, a PHP/Apache/MySQL-based system for managing marker data used in genetic linkage analyses. He is currently serving as the senior architect on a new PHP-based clinical database for use at Kellogg called *Gladiator* which will be the subject of this session. Prior to working at the Kellogg Eye Center, he was an Experienced Consultant in the Internet Development Center of Arthur Andersen, LLP, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Gladiator: Using Open Standards for clinical and research

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Alex Pukinskis

Independant Software Developper (Session)

Alex Pukinskis is an independent software coach and developer in Boulder, Colorado. He works with software teams that want to reduce risk by becoming more agile. Alex has been developing custom web applications since 1995, and currently provides PHP-based solutions to a wide range of clients. Prior to working independently, he led development of a PHP-based knowledge management system, developed a web-based video network management system, and worked for several other high-tech firms. Alex is a member of the advisory board for XP Denver, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.

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Derick Rethans

eZ Systems A.S. (Session)

Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the mcrypt extension, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as developer for eZ Systems A.S.. In his spare time he likes to work on SRM: Script Running Machine and Xdebug, watch movies and travel. You can reach him at derick@php.net

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Ilia Alshanetsky

Senior Developper, Advanced Interned Designs Inc (Session)

Ilia has been developing with PHP for about 5 years and been active in the actual development of the PHP language on an on and off basis for the last 3. As a PHP user he's worked on a number of open source projects such as FUDforum and Horde. As a developer of PHP, he's authored and co-authored a number of extensions and is actively involved in resolving various bugs in the PHP language. At present time Ilia is the Release master for PHP 4.3.X releases.

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John Coggeshall

Author and consultant (Session)

John Coggeshall is a PHP consultant and author who started losing sleep over PHP around five years ago. Lately you'll find him losing sleep meeting deadlines for books or online columns on a wide range of PHP topics. You can find his work online at O'Reilly Networks onlamp.com and Zend Technologies, or at his website http://www.coggeshall.org/. John has also contributed to Apress' Professional PHP4 and is currently in the progress of writing the PHP Developer's Handbook published by Sams Publishing.

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Martin Legris

Savoir-faire Linux (Session)

Martin Legris is trainer at Savoir-faire Linux since 2003. He also work as independant consultant in PHP/MySQL developement since August 2000. His experience in oriented object programming, C, C++ and Java date back to 1996. Mr Legris has developped a transactional architecture for the web since 2001. This software feature database abstraction, internationalization, e-commerce, multi-media, multiple currencies and Flash integration with XML.

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Pierre-Alain Joye

Independant (Session)

Freelance developper, Pierre-Alain is a member of the PEAR group. He is responsible of the installation scripts and of the PEAR library in the official distributions of PHP. He is the maintainer of multiple packages. Digital imaging enthousiast, he spends some time improving the graphic functionalities of PHP, especially the GD extension and a new library for PHP 5 (pimp).

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Aaron Greenspan

Havard College SEC (Session)

Aaron Greenspan started Think Computer Corporation as an IT consulting firm in 1998. In response to demand from the company's clients, Greenspan began developing web-based software products, including the Whiteboard content management system for small businesses, which run on PHP. Greenspan is also the President of the Harvard College Student Entrepreneurship Council, a student group dedicated to promoting technology and entrepreneurship on the Harvard campus.

Automating Harvard College with PHP

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Frank Boumphrey

Project Manager, Cormorant Software (Session)

Frank Boumphrey is an experienced speaker and the author or part author of 8 books on XML and/or web related topics. He has been programming in PHP for several years and has used it to build several web applications. His interests include medical infomatics, project management and document management. He has supervised the building of several industrial strength applications. He has built applications for several hospitals that uses PHP and native databases (preferably MySQL) to integrate data from disparate, non-communicating proprietary software. This has allowed the readout of previously locked information on a daily basis. He has also used PHP together with MySQL & XML to build document and project management systems. He is an M.D. and Project Manager for Cormorant Software, a company that specializes in producing data mining software for hospital systems.

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Adam Trachtenberg

Author (Session)

Adam Trachtenberg started using PHP in 1997 and is the co-author of O'Reilly's PHP Cookbook. He has an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he concentrated in general management. Before returning to school, Adam co-founded and served as Vice President for Development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Adam is currently writing another book for O'Reilly, this time on PHP 5.

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Michel Dagenais

Teacher, École Polytechnique (Session)

Michel Dagenais is professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal and co-founder of the Linux-Québec user group. He authored a large number of scientific publications in the fields of software performance analysis, structured documents on the Web, and object oriented distributed systems. In 1995-1996, he was chief architect for the Power911, object oriented, distributed, fault-tolerant, call management system with integrated telephony and databases. In 2001-2002 he worked at Ericsson Research Canada, on the Linux Trace Toolkit, an open source tracing tool for Carrier Grade Linux.

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Cedric Fontaine

Developper (Session)

Cedric Fontaine is a PHP developper since 1999. He is the founder of the phpWebZine CMS project and of pwzauth, a php web identification application. He also works on multiple open source projects, including phpAdsNew. During his free times, he works on reference websites in the field of music and auto-production.

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Rasmus Lerdorf

Yahoo! (Session)

PHP is closely linked to its inventor, Rasmus. He worked with prestigious companies such as IBM and LinuxCare, until he joined Yahoo! to manage the transition of the famous portal to PHP. These days, he speaks at conferences worldwide.

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Jean-Michel Dault

MandrakeSoft (Session)

Jean Michel is the maintainer of Apache, MySQL and PHP technologies for the Mandrakesoft Linux distribution. Between 1994 and 1999, he launched several ISP and soon realized that every customer need different functionalities, which all lead to laborious recompilation. His project, ADVX.org, is used by over 88,000 servers, and aims at optimising and modulerasing Apache and PHP so as each program may be installed and uninstalled separatedly.

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Vincent François

Consultant, Boreale (Session)

Internet consultant for 4 years (15 years total), in Montreal, he has worked with PHP since June 2001, after working with other proprietary scripting languages. His specialisation is aimed toward CMS (Content Management Systems), especially SPIP, while is based on the succes of PHP and MySQL.

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Martial Bigras

President of the GULSE (Session)

Martial Bigras is an electric engineer working to implement Linux at Goodyear. He is also the president of the GULSE (Linux User Group of the Basses Laurentides) and is very active in multiple groups in the extended region of Montreal.

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Marc Laporte

TikiWiki (Session)

IT consultant, with focus in web applications (Intranets, portals, ecommerce, etc) Business degree (specializing in Information Systems) Project admin of Tiki CMS/Groupware

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Réal Thibeault

MediaPlazza (Session)

Réal Thibeault is the technical director of the north american subsidiary of Mediaplazza. He has been working with PHP for 4 years and, since summer 2003, he has been developping the vocal applications (Voice XML) of the company. He has written many large applications in PHP. The first one was a global managing system for telemarketing and questionning companies. His speciality is development of analysis tools.

PHP et VoiceXML

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Arnaud Lahaye

FM Logistic (Session)

Team leader of the NTIC development for the FM Logistic society, Arnaud Layahe is in charge of the intranet and extranet development. They have been using the LAMP platform for over 3 years in their intranet/extranet, but also for more complex applications and specialised in the SCM with interconnections with different databases (Sybase, Oracle, MSSQL, LDAP, SAP...).

PHP et SAP

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Tomy Bombardier

Evolubiz (Session)

Tomy Bombardier is an ordinated system technician, he is in charge of the web programming and maintenance of the web server at Évolubiz, a young Sherbrooke buisness. He has mainly used PHP for the last 2 years. This design and web creation company aims to maximise the usage of internet in the buisness process of their clients with online marketing strategies, e-commerge or other services.

Oscommerce, le E-Commerce Libre

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Benoît Dubuc

Espace Courbe (Session)

Benoit Dubuc is the founder of Espace Courbe, a company specializing in Web development and in training for creating and maintaining a Web presence (HTML, PHP, Java, JavaScript, XML, CSS). He managed overthe past decade the creation of more than thirty Web sites inPHP such as the live auction site www.thedailyauction.com,the Quebec museums portal www.musees.quebec.museum and theaward-winning virtual exhibit curiousuniverse.umontreal.ca. He is a strong advocate of PHP, XML and open source Web contentmanagement systems (TYPO3, Zope, Postnuke, SPIP).

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