Please give a brief introduction of yourself.

I am founder of AmiWorks, company behind PHPCamp.net. I have organised various events like PHPCamp, Barcamp and Joomla day.

What are your contributions to FOSS projects ?

Apart for organizing various events of OSS community like PHPCamp, Joomla day, I have also released bunch of open source plugins and extensions for Joomla, WordPress and jQuery. A list of which can be found on my blog.

What will your workshop be, exactly ?

My workshop is about showing how to build web applications quickly using Codeigniter framework. I will cover the basics of MVC, and how to do common web task using codeigniter.

What do you hope to accomplish by conducting this talk? What do you expect ?

I hope that students learn about various option that are available to them, and know at least one framework with which they can tinker and play.

Why PHP and not Perl or Python ?

I believe that PHP was built to solve the web problem, and since all my work is focused on web, I prefer to use PHP.

Why did you choose codeigniter over other PHP frameworks ?

Codeigniter is one the fastest framework out of box, learning curve is low and most important thing that i like about CI is that after setting few ground rules it gets out of my way and let’s me focus on things that i want to build.

If not codeigniter then which PHP framework will you choose ?

If not Codeigniter I would most probably go to DooPHP framework.

Other than PHP which other languages do you use ?

As my work is focused on web, I mostly use PHP. In past I have used Java and C.

Have you enjoyed previous editions of gnunify ?

Yes, I have also been speaking at gnunify since 2008. It is one of the best conference for students.