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PHP|Architect being acquired by Musketeers.me

To me this is HUGE news in the PHP World.

If you are in the PHP community and don’t know PHP|A, then you have been missing out.  I learned about them when I decided I HAD to grow and improve my skillset.  I was a sole developer that was stuck.  I wanted to be better, but to do so, you have to work with better people than you are.  So I set out a goal of learning things, and luckily enough I kind of knew what I was looking to learn.  Part of my whole speech about needing to know what you don’t know.

PHP|A offers a magazine (used to be in print, maybe again soon?), books, trainings, and conferences.  The conferences are what first drew me in.  I attended TEK-X, back in May of 2010 and thus start of the new me.  Within 2 years, I completely transformed myself for the better, and made some huge life changing decisions.

I met all of the members of Musketeers.me while on my new quest.  I met @EliW first at Tek-X, and while he won’t remember it, I certainly do.  I got to hang out with a large group of people in his room playing Rock Band until late in the night.  I was very shy that year, and stayed to myself.  I met the rest of the team (@omerida, @SandyS1, and @kevinbruce) this year at Tek12.  I talked with them way more than I thought I would have, and it was a great experience.

The Musketeers were the team behind MojoLive.com, until funding ran out and the backers pulled the plug.  At least this is how I interpreted the story.  They decided they liked working together and formed a new company called Musketeers.met.

This is a great story for potential PHP startups.  I am looking forward to what comes of all of the changes at PHP|A.  Will the conferences continue?  If so, will they be as good as they were, or better?  Congratulations GUYS!!!

1 reply on “PHP|Architect being acquired by Musketeers.me”

Thanks John! Like you I subscribed to php|a when I was wanting to grow. I was also a sole PHP dev and was looking for resources to take me to the next level. php|architect was (and is) a great resource for PHP devs. More importantly, Marco and his team “got” the community aspect and carried it through all of their products! rest assured that will never be lost! BTW- I, too, miss the print version 😉

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