software development

Constant learning and implementation of best practices in all aspects of software development are a must! As part of this credo we actively participate in StackOverflow, the number one Q&A site for programmers.

languages and technologies

Main areas of expertise:

• Modern, object oriented PHP, Zend Framework
• MySql, SQL
• Javascript, jQuery
• (X)HTML, HTML, CSS, XML

Additional areas of knowledge:

• Matlab, C++, Delphi, Java
• Symfony 2
• Silverstripe, Joomla

quality assurance

To assure high quality of all our software we use tools like...

• Zend Studio 8 as our IDE
• phpUnit for unit testing
• Selenium for integration testing
• SVN for revision control
• phpDocumentor for full documentation of our code
• monitorix for real time application monitoring (our own tool, available as open source software)

great programming blogs we follow

• Pádraic Brady - http://blog.astrumfutura.com/
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney - http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
• Jeff Attwood - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
• Sebastian Bergmann - http://sebastian-bergmann.de/blog/
• Fabien Potencier - http://fabien.potencier.org/

great books we've read and recommend

• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• PHP in action by Dagfinn Reiersøl with Marcus Baker and Chris Shiflett
• Zend Framework in action by Rob Allen with Nick Lo and Steven Brown
• Guide to PHP Design Patterns by Jason E. Sweat
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma
• Don't make me think by Steve Krug