Just thought I would drop by and post an introducing thread, I've been registered here for a couple of months but I havn't really posted but I hope to change that in the new year ;)

My name is Kalle Sommer Nielsen and I'm a Zend Certified Engineer as of the 20th December 2007. I've been playing around with PHP development since early 2002 and have no past programming experince except for HTML/CSS/Javascript ect. ofcourse. I'm writing new features and managing the development team over at ClanTemplates where I'm administrator and lately I've been working on an open source forum software which will be released later this year.

I've been going to a few php conferences in Paris in 2005/2006 where I've meet the creators of PHP and other key people in the PHP group such as: Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski, Andi Gutmans, Andrei Zmievski and Derick Rethans.

Links:
Zend Certified Engineer page:
PHP Education - Zend PHP Certification - About the Exam - The Industry Standard that Recognizes PHP Expertise
Tuxxedo:
The Tuxxedo Network (Not yet open, but it will within the next month, the forum software will also be released there)

Hope to see you around and happy new year ;)