On my personal site last week, I talked about Contributing to Open Source projects in a variety of ways ranging from helping with documentation to writing code to just finding and talking about the tools you find useful.

I talked about it without considering a simple question that - luckily - Dennis Crane of Dr Explain asked:

Keith, why [do] you help and contribute [to] open source projects? What's your motivation?

It's a very good question and the answer should sound familiar to quite a few people...

This post is the second part of a series covering the feature set of the Magento PHP-based e-commerce package. In particular, it will review the product browsing features.

Elizabeth Smith sits down to talk about PHP-GTK and why it might make more sense than Adobe AIR for desktop development.

Elizabeth Smith's site

Travis Swicegood sits down to talk about Git and playing well between Git and Subversion.

Travis Swicegood's site

Arbi Arzoumani - publisher of php|architect magazine - sits down to talk with us about php|architect magazine, php|tek planning, conference chaos, and some of the things that most attendees will never notice.

Sebastian Bergmann, Stefan Priebsch, and Arne Blankerts talking about Code Review, Best Practices, and their thoughts on each.

I grabbed them for this discussion as their session on Code Review received quite a bit of negative intention questioning their motives in reviewing Open Source projects.

Their sites: Sebastian Bergmann, Stefan Priebsch, and Arne Blankerts

Just after the closing keynote, I talked with Robert and Matt about the conference, their thoughts, and the chaos that went on.

Their sites: Matt Schraeder and Robert Purcell

Just after the closing keynote, I tracked down Aaron to talk about his experience at php|tek 2009 and a couple of his favorite presentations.

I managed to convince Brett to talk with me for a few minutes about his efforts with PEAR2, etc. Unfortunately, the last 5-10s got cut off by some moron repeatedly calling... arg.

Brett Bieber's Site

I sat down to talk with Wez Furlong - creator of PDO and many other things - about the recent core PHP developers' meeting, their priorities, and related topics.

Wez Furlong's site