Welcome to BGZ

Experience and Understanding
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The greatest benefit [The BGZ Team]'s exceptional experience and understanding has brought is the unprecedented confidence it gives us to push ideas further, safe in the knowledge that they can deliver. Working with them from the concept stage of a brief has, without fail, contributed to a better final product and a happy client. The only downside has been that they have consistently over-delivered and set a benchmark that has been impossible to match elsewhere.
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» Software Development
Because we are programmers and not resellers we concentrate on constructing systems and tools designed around our clients' business needs. We do not try to shoehorn our clients' needs to fit the features of off-the-peg systems.
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» PHP in 24 Hours
Pearson are to publish the third edition of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours. The successful tutorial book by BGZ's Matt Zandstra has been translated into more than ten languages.
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» Planning For Success
As Web projects evolve from online brochures into sophisticated and dynamic tools so their development becomes harder to manage. Define what you need your project to do at the start of the process, and you can ward off disaster later on.
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testimonials:
Communicating Technology
Matt Zandstra at [The BGZ Team] is a rare breed: a consummate and cutting-edge technician who can also communicate in non-gobbledegook.
Hilary Burden, Ringmaster, Talent Circus
training:
BGZ Courses
We teach open source and open standard technologies. We aim to cover the detail of any topic we tackle, but also to reach beyond that to the principles that underlie the subject.
news:
Linux Magazine Article
January's edition of Linux Magazine includes an article by BGZ's Matt Zandstra covering a new feature of PHP. The feature, a Reflection API, improves the Web scripting language's support for object-oriented programming.