icon for podpress  Enterprise Level Web Development with Doctrine 2: Download

This is an interview with Jonathan Wage from SensioLabs.com. We caught up with Jonathan at Confoo where he’d given a presentation on Doctrine 2 for enterprise level development. Jonathan discussed with us how Doctrine 2 is an improvement on earlier versions of its implementation, as well as what are some of the barriers to open-source technology obtaining wide-scale use by corporate America. He also shared with us his thoughts on Microsoft’s recent engagement with the open-source community — namely, how he sees it as an opportunity for open-source developers engage the corporate world with their technologies.

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icon for podpress  Jeremy Pepper at the Audience Conference 2009 [12:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jeremy Pepper, a public relations specialist, was a speaker at the first Audience Conference on Friday, November 6, 2009 in New York City.

Jeremy’s bio: Work in PR/Comm/Marcom. Have lived and worked in Detroit, Scottsdale/Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco Bay Area. Have a dog. He’s great.

Get details on the Audience Conference at http://www.theaudienceconference.com/.

More Audience Conference audio available at http://geekcast.fm/archives/category/audience-conference/.

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In this interview, we chat with Cory FowlerCory Fowler, one of the developers from Innosphere.ca. Cory was a speaker at Confoo, and his presentations focused on Windows Azure and how developers can use it for their cloud computing projects. Amongst other things, Cory shared with us what he sees as some of the key advantages that Windows Azure has over Google App Engine and Amazon’s hardware — namely that Windows Azure offers developers more flexibility because it supports more languages.

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This is an interview with Stefan Koopmanschap, a bad-ass PHP developer from the Netherlands. We caught up with Stefan at Confoo where he was giving two presentations: one on the myths surrounding the Zend framework, and another on how to use the Symphony and Zend framework together. Stefan discussed with us the advantages of using multiple PHP frameworks, as well as what he thinks about Microsoft’s recent efforts to engage the open-source community and support open-source languages, such as PHP.

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icon for podpress  She Shops Around 20: Spring Beauty [36:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Now that we have done the “spring forward” thing with the clocks, it is time to start thinking forward to spring shopping. For most of us, that means changing out our beauty products, skin care products, and wardrobes. In this episode of She Shops Around, Tricia and Cindy from Sunshine Rewards talked about various merchants where you can pick up some great spring products at good prices.

Show Notes:

  • Tricia loves lip venom and tinted moisturizer for spring and has been buying them at glow.com and Sephora.
  • Cindy and Tricia talked about the importance of cleansers and exfoliators (check out Mario Badescu and Dermstore and the products that Cindy and Tricia use).
  • New nail polish colors are out and you can get good deals on OPI (including the Alice in Wonderland colors) at HairCareDiscounters.com.
  • Sunscreen and self tanning is big in the spring.
  • Cindy loves her Crocs and they have a number of different styles and colors that do not look like traditional Crocs.
  • New clothes are a must for the warmer weather!

(Podcast participants: Tricia Meyer, Cindy Ballard)

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