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We were lucky enough this year to be able to sponsor the Launch48 event in Leicester this year. It was a perfect opportunity to be with pre-startup businesses to provide mentoring and assist in their development.

The PHP North-West Conference 2014 was certainly one of the biggest things we have been looking forward to, here at Viva IT. We waited patiently for months, and then, in the last few weeks things seemed to fly by quicker than we’d anticipated.

In recent days we’ve been very busy with some projects for our major clients, but it hasn’t all been about work.

This year we are joining RS Components in sponsoring the Launch48 even being held in Leicester. We feel that the technology community in Leicester is something that should be nurtured and encouraged to grow.

As you may know, us here at Viva IT are die-hard supporters of Symfony2. We love the way it works with our code, and our clients love it as so much of the boilerplate functionality is pre-built and managed. When the opportunity arose, we just couldn’t resist going to Symfony Live in London this year.

Today marks the first birthday of Dock, an innovation centre at the core of Leicester’s technology growth, and we just had to join in with the birthday celebrations!

The last few months here at Viva IT have seen some incredible challenges conquered and projects delivered. We feel that it is time to broaden our skill-set and increase our capacity by opening up some new roles.

I’ve been with Viva IT for just over a month now, almost straight out of university. Based at Dock in Leicester, the office has huge windows and is surrounded by trees, a nice change from the windowless office I worked in at my previous job.

Like most companies, we travel in and out of work, each day. We would come into work a little later usually, in order to avoid the traffic, and work later too. It worked well, but with the early morning sun poking through the curtains in the morning, we were more eager to come into work earlier.

When we found the Symfony2 framework back in 2013, we could see the power and potential it could have to the PHP community.