Bruno Pedro is a systems engineer with over ten years’ experience in database related applications who’s been developing PHP Web Applications since 1995. He’s the author of Auth_Container_SOAP, PEAR’s SOAP based plug-and-play authentication package. Currently he’s interested in studying the usage of the Web as a data storage container and in the management of Large Scale Web Development projects.
Startup projects
- tarpipe (co-founder) - a publishing mediation and distribution platform
- JobTide (founder) - a job aggregator and search engine
- Adegga (technical advisor) - a social wine discovery application
Published books
- B. Pedro and V. Rodrigues, “PHP et Smarty pour du développement web à grande échelle” (in french), Editions O’Reilly, ISBN 2-35402-072-4, November 2007
- B. Pedro and V. Rodrigues, “PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web Development“, O’Reilly Media Inc., ISBN 0-596-51379-8, June 20, 2007
Conference presentations
- B. Pedro, “A Evolução de uma Ideia” (in portuguese), Take Off 2008, April 19, 2008
- B. Pedro, “Web Services em PHP5” (in portuguese), SAPO CodeBits 2007, November 13, 2007
- B. Pedro, “PHP, Smarty e o Template View Pattern” (in portuguese), FSL 2007, October 12, 2007
- B. Pedro, “PHP and Web Services“, CITOT 2007, May 20, 2007
Published magazine articles
- B. Pedro, “Caching techniques for the PHP developer”, php architect, Vol. III, issue 2, pp. 51 — 57, February 2004.
- B. Pedro, “Transforming XML with PHP“, XML.com, June 18, 2003.
- B. Pedro, “Using The PEAR::XML Transformer”, php architect, Vol. II, issue 4, pp. 52 — 60, April 2003.
- B. Pedro, “Miképp növelhetjük PHP-programjaink sebességét?” (in hungarian), Linuxvilág, Vol. 15, pp. 34 — 35, April 2002.
- B. Pedro, “Improving the Speed of PHP Web Scripts“, Linux Journal, Vol. 95, p. 78, 80 — 81, March 2002.
- B. Pedro, “The Future of Web Hosting: Web Content Management“, Business International, p. 174, Spring 2002.
- B. Pedro, “Deleting Temporary Files Created by Web Sites Using PHP”, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX Systems Administrators, 11(2), p. 30, 32 — 33, February 2002.
Open Source projects
- Horde Template compilation code (used by the IMP Webmail Client), November 2006
- PEAR Auth_Container_SOAP, 2003 — now
- ProFTPD Quota LDAP Module, May 2003
- phdwait (PHP Database Web Application Toolkit), September 2002
Contacts
Bruno is currently living in Lisbon, Portugal, but is available to work remotely in projects anywhere in the world. If you’re interested, check out his full profile at Linkedin, write him a note to bpedro@computer.org or follow him on twitter.
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