Wez Furlong is the Oracle's PHP Developer of the year 2005
Maybe its a little late, but I wanted to congrats Wez for being choosed as the Oracle's PHP Developer of the year 2005, mainly a result of his great efforts in developing PDO, the PDO OCI driver and my role in the redesign of the oci8 extension.
"I got involved with PHP in 2001 because I needed to write a patch to enable SSL support and modify how PHP handled files and network resources," says Wez Furlong, Oracle Magazine's PHP Developer of the Year. "It was a big patch that's used by many people now because it really made things easier."
Furlong took his PHP expertise to OmniTI, which builds a highperformance message transfer agent (MTA), Ecelerity, used to power the e-mail operations of service providers and enterprises such as MoveOn.org. Furlong also helps OmniTI to solve difficult Web problems for clients such as Feedster.com, UltraDNS, and Sleepycat Software. More recently he's been working with software company and Oracle partner Zend to help redesign the Oracle driver for greater performance and higher reliability, as well as working on PHP Data Objects (PDO), a uniform data access layer.
"Historically PHP developers have not been as skilled as traditional enterprise developers, but we're now at the point where you can create some serious applications with PHP and Oracle," comments Furlong. "I think Oracle's a real workhorse—really strong and very reliable. Oracle's commitment to PHP is very reassuring and puts the language in a much stronger position."
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