Preparations for MarkLogic World 2013 are underway and we have a call for speakers (see the Agenda tab). As part of the conference, we are organizing a series of lightning talks covering hands-on topics. These talks are an ideal venue for sharing and getting feedback on your latest work as well as a great place to hear from fellow developers actively engaged with MarkLogic technology. If you're interested, details are available at the signup.

As we've done in the past, we're also again creating some poster displays for MarkLogic developer community projects. This is a collaborative effort that helps us learn more about each others work. Here, you provide the content and we'll make an awesome poster. If you have a project you'd like to share at the conference and have limited cycles yourself (like who doesn't!), just drop me a line directly (eric.bloch AT marklogic dot com) and we can chat about making a poster.

For those of us who like to wax nostalgic, below are a couple posters from last year's conference:

Attention PHP developers!

You can now build powerful search applications in PHP using MarkLogic Server with a new, open source PHP API, called MLPHP. The API makes it easy for PHP developers to store documents, manage document metadata, and create sophisticated search queries on a web server running PHP 5.3 or later. It communicates with MarkLogic using the server's REST API, available in MarkLogic 6 or later.

The PHP API is available for download at GitHub. See the INSTALL.txt file to get started and then check out the API Docs. After installing the PHP API, you can load documents into MarkLogic with just a couple lines of PHP code:

$document = new MLPHP\Document($client);

$document->setContentFile('myfile.xml')->write('/myfile.xml');

Searching is just as easy:

$search = new MLPHP\Search($client);

$results = $search->retrieve('cat');

MLPHP is new and is a work-in-progress. If you have questions or want to provide some feedback, you can join in and give us a holler at general@developer.marklogic.com, file issues at GitHub, or drop me a line directly at mike.wooldridge AT marklogic dot com.

To download MarkLogic Server and use the free Express license, go here.

(If you want to build applications in Java, MarkLogic also has a great Java API.)

See http://www.meetup.com/Mark-Logic-User-Group/events/92208702/

Deena Malkina, Director, Product Manager at MarkLogic, will present an overview of the new features released with MarkLogic 6 and will give you an opportunity to ask questions as well as provide feedback directly to Product Management at MarkLogic.

Deena Malkina has extensive experience in Product Management (PM) within the technology industry. Currently, she is a Director of Product Management at MarkLogic. Prior to MarkLogic, she was the Founder and CEO of a successfully acquired social commerce website that achieved industry leading conversion rates. Before founding her startup, Ms. Malkina ran a senior PM team at Symantec, where she and her team brought a number of new data center management products to market, exceeding customer adoption goals by 2x. Prior to that, Ms. Malkina developed and launched six new products to market as a Sr. PM at Symantec, achieving vast customer adoption and growing the P&L for these products from scratch to outperform revenue targets. Ms. Malkina has also held PM, Operations Planning, and Corporate Strategy roles at Level 3 Communications, where she managed a $75M P&L and received repeated recognition awards for her leadership and outstanding performance. Ms. Malkina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has also attained a Master of Science degree in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems with high distinction from the University of Colorado at Boulder.