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.

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.

The Zend Framework community is pleased to announce the immediate availability
of Zend Framework 2.0.0beta1. Packages and installation instructions are
available at:

http://packages.zendframework.com/

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework’s
ALL ONES 1.11.11 release, the eleventh maintenance release in the 1.11 series.

1.11.11 includes around 30 bug fixes and may be downloaded from the Zend Framework site.

For those who haven’t put the recurring event in their calendar, the Zend
Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday
(the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September), we’ll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For
those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to
help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

For those who haven’t put the recurring event in their calendar, the Zend
Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday
(the 25th, 26th and 27th of August), we’ll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For
those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to
help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.