Zend is proud to announce the dates & location for ZendCon 2009 happening on October 19th-22nd in San Jose, California, and to let everyone know that our Call for Papers is now open! Let’s see those great session proposals come in! Submit early! Submit often! []

Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide

Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer’s Guide gives millions of PHP LAMP developers world-class tools for building state-of-the-art web applications. Now, here is a definitive guide to making the most of this breakthrough development environment. Zend Certified Engineer Peter MacIntyre and expert PHP developer Ian Morse show how to use Zend Studio for Eclipse to improve productivity, effectiveness, and code quality throughout your entire project life cycle. []
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 Events   ZendCon 

ZendCon 07 Wrapup

Wow, what a conference. I told several people that just attending conferences as press is a heck of a lot easier than actually hosting one. This year’s ZendCon was a great conference any way you look at it. Great tutorials, great sessions, great keynotes, even great parties…er…networking events. []
Frameworks are everywhere in the PHP community these days. Different frameworks fill different needs and have different personalities behind them. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Francois Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier, the driving forces behind the symfony framework. Not too long ago, symfony released their 1.0 milestone version. They have also released their extensive documentation in print from Apress, as well as on the web. []
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 Adobe   Flex 

Adobe Survey for PHP Developers.

Adobe has a survey they are asking all PHP developers to help them with. []
HTML editors are special form fields that allow Web site users to visually edit (WYSIWYG) rich text content formatted with HTML tags. HTML editors are powerful, but without proper security care, sites may be abused. []
You know you’ve been waiting for it, here it is. The final installment of Chapter 7 of “PHP in Action” by Dagfinn Reiersol. []
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 News   PEAR   Zend Framework 
Thanks to the phpmafia, the Zend Framework has a PEAR channel that you can use to install it from. Details can be found on on the authors blog, however, they are in French. Babelfish will translate them for you but it ends up sounding like a passage out of Borat. So I’ll paraphrase for you and give you the details. []
My buddy Olivia over at Manning Publications sent us part two of their soon to be released title, “PHP in Action”. This one has a short intro by the author, Dagfinn Reiersol. Click on inside, I’ll share. []
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 Interviews   MySQL 

30 Minutes with Chris Hartjes

Last year at php|works in Toronto, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Hartjes, who was presenting his “What PHP Can Learn From Rails” talk. We spent some time just talking about PHP and programming. Click on inside, I’ll give you the whole interview. []