Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

I've been developing with PHP well over a decade now. From editing and writing plugins initially for Phpnuke (yep), to working with most CMS's (Drupal, WP, Magento), and eventually MVC frameworks (CI, YII, KOHANA, etc.) I've learned the language's good sides, and bad sides.

At around September (2012), I've released a first version of an android App I've created. Berlin On Feier is basically an app that collects all the events (mostly parties) currently going on, and displays it to use with an easy to use interface, without distractions.

After trying to implement my Database models on Doctrine ORM for about 5 hours, (I must mention that I do have experience with Doctrine 1.2, which is useless for Doctrine 2 since they change everything) I decided to try Yii Framework, and surprisingly, it worked like magic!