Over at phpbuilder.com, Jason Gilmore (a really smart guy) has posted a great article on how he used Zend_Cache to…well cache stuff. It’s an interesting read, partly because Zend_Cache is cool and partly because Jason is a good writer. Click on in, we’ll discuss it.

Zend_Paginator does a great job of creating pagination for a site. In this blog post I’m demonstrating how to use Zend_Paginator to easily create pagination of Twitter tweets using Zend_Rest_Client to access the Twitter Services. As a bonus, Zend_Cache is used to store the tweets to make the process more efficient.

A brief primer on using Zend_Cache as a stand-alone module along with APC to enhance application performance.

Pascal Opitz has implemented a caching pattern for models using Zend_Cache and the __call magic method. The goal of this pattern was for the model to be able to return calls either uncached or cached, without initializing a cache object every time, and allowing for an easy way to switch between the two in the controller.

Taken straight from the Memcached website, "Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system". In other words, Memcached helps you increase application perfomance by caching data in memory. Using Memcached to load data instead of a database or file system can have a major impact on your applications performance.

p. ZendCon is in full swing! We’ve got keynotes, we’ve got sessions, we’ve (finally) got Internet! Read up on all the happenings! Harold Goldberg, with help from Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski kicked things off with their opening keynote “Unlocking the Value”. After that, Terry Chay, IBM, the unconference…it’s all here.

p. After months of planning and countless emails exchanged, ZendCon ’07 is now underway! If you are here, read this to get your tagging info. If you weren’t able to make it, read this to find out how to keep up with everything going on.

p. Caching isn’t one of those things that many people think of when designing their first applications. However once they launch their new AJAX enabled web2.0 application, they might start wondering what they can do to get this beast to move faster. The answer is caching.

p. Alexander Netkachev has done it again. This time he has taken an in-depth look at the Zend_Cache class from the Zend Framework Preview Release 0.1.4.