My friend Kevin Schroeder recently released his latest book “You Want to Do What with PHP?” This book isn’t for everyone, click on inside and I’ll help you decide if it’s right for you.

Over on his blog, Joey Rivera recently posted a tutorial on how to interact with Facebook’s Graph API and PHP SDK. Click on in and let’s take a look at this.

Zend Server, Zend Server CE and Zend Server Cluster Manager for Linux are
provided through DEB And RPM repositories. This has multiple benefits; one of
them is the ability to easily create an internal mirror of the Zend Server
repositories, using common tools available on virtually all Linux machines. The question always comes up though, “Why Mirror? I’ll look at that plus how to setup your mirror in this article.

If you know Matthew Weier O’Phinney (MWOP) then you have probably already read this post. If you don’t know him, click on in and I’ll give you the low-down.

One of the reasons I love PHP is that all I have to deal with is back-end code. I am absolutely horrible at anything resembling design, this includes information design. Recently Ryan Stewart wrote a quick blog post showing how to use Flex and PHP to build charts in your applications. Click on in and I’ll dig up the link for you.

In a new post to his blog today Gonzalo Ayuso offers some tips for those out there wanting to cluster their PHP applications effectively.

A few days ago Bulat S. posted a very interesting post titled “MongoDB ODM: MongoDB for eCommerce”. If you missed it, click on through…I’ve got the link around here somewhere.

Development on websites when the product will run on a Varnish'ed' production environment can be a pain in the ass. The xml tag that can be used to define Edge Side Includes can't be parsed by a standard browser. While developing you often look at a half rendered website implementation. This is something you really don't want!

Varnish’s Edge Side Includes are a powerful tool that give developers a lot of flexibility. Bas de Nooijer has written an interesting blog post on how to control them from within your Zend Framework application.

New from the ZendCasts.com site today there’s this new screencast looking at the integration of the Zend_Auth_Adapter component of the Zend Framework and the Doctrine ORM library to split out the authentication from the persistence layer.