I had the great privilege to interview Matthew Weier O’Phinney for my podcast, Voices of the ElePHPant. Click on in and I’ll share the details.

The always insightful and devilishly handsome Andi Gutmans recently wrote a very interesting gust blog post for VentureBeat.com. PHP developers should read it but team managers and directors must read it. Click on in, I’ll give you the tl;dr and the link to read it once you realize what you missed.

Conference season is in full swing, have you made plans to attend one or more this year? Click on in and we’ll give you the low down on the ones we know about between now and summer.

Those wacky coders over at mayflower.de have released the most comprehensive exampe of a Zend Framework Application.ini that we’ve ever seen. Click on in, we’ll share.

Over on his blog, Jason Grimes has written a great tutorial on how to integrate Doctrine 2 into Zend Framework 2. His work is based on Rob Allen’s tutorial and is a great next step. Click on in and grab the URL.

Here at Zend we get a lot of good press for our products. We don’t want to turn DevZone into just a feed for those that write cool things about us, but some of these are helpful if you are considering using our products. So instead of flooding your feed with individual articles about how great the products are, occasionally we’ll post a roundup. That way they won’t get in your way, but there are here when you need them.

Want to check your file uploads with ClamAV? We’ve got a link to a tutorial to show you how.

There’s a new survey series worth checking out called the Zend Developer Pulse™. Zend is taking the pulse of developers regarding technology and career topics. Findings from the first survey, conducted online in Q4 2011, are available in a summary report. Zend received over 3,000 responses in 48 hours. Not bad. Take a peek at the report, and send your feedback to Zend.

Got your beta invite to phpcloud.com but not sure where to start. Read on, we’ll take a look at the concepts involved and the staps to take to not only get up and running quickly but to be productive in this interesting tool.

ZendCon is coming and the time to save on ticket prices is getting short! You know you want to go, so go ahead and get your ticket now. Click on inside, I’ll share the link.