by Kevin Schroeder | 11:58 am

Zend Server 5.6 is out

Zend Server 5.6 is out.  I’m actually pretty stoked about this release.  Here’s a few reasons why. Zend Server CE now contains the full Zend Server stack.  Why do I find this exciting?  Because

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:51 pm

Creating deployment packages with Zend Studio 9

Deploying your work in Zend Studio is quite easy.  You have the ability to deploy directly from your IDE, which is, in general, more for local environments, the Zend Developer Cloud or testing.  The

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:42 am

Enter Deployment: Zend Server 5.5

Today Zend Server 5.5 was released.  This is actually a pretty good sized deal.  The big addition to the Zend Server feature list is deployment.  Now, you might be saying “come on, Kevin, there

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by Kevin Schroeder | 5:20 pm

Deployment beta for Zend Server 5.5 – Getting Started

Deployment for PHP applications is one of those things where it’s tough to get a general reading on where things are.  On one hand you have people who have deployment mechanisms that seemingly automate

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:32 pm

Details on building a Flex-based dashboard with a PHP backend

Yesterday (June 1st) I wrote a blog post on how to set up an example application that I did for a webinar with Adobe and building a Flash based dashboard application (I would suggest

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by Kevin Schroeder | 5:59 pm

Building a Flex-based dashboard with a PHP backend

Today (June 1st) I got to give an online talk with Adobe on how to create a stunning analytics dashboard with Flex and PHP (recording here).  I’m a horrible graphic designer and so I

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by Kevin Schroeder | 7:55 am

Selling 12k tickets in 2 minutes

One of my little projects that I’ve been working on is an example where I wanted to build a system that would scale to be able selling 100k tickets in 5 minutes.  I’m happy

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by Kevin Schroeder | 8:21 am

Added (PHP 5.3) job queuing to my WordPress instance

One of the things I liked on my old blog was the ability to have a Popular Posts section that was based off of Google Analytics. I had also like that I was using

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by Kevin Schroeder | 5:13 pm

Zend Server 5.1 Web API

This weekend we soft launched the Zend Server 5.1 update.  So soft, in fact, that I didn’t even know it was launched.  But I did know it was coming.  Most of the improvements were

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by Kevin Schroeder | 4:42 pm

New Zend Server Job Queue Library

This will probably be one of the last posts I do on the Zend Server Job Queue functionality.  From this point on they will probably be less frequent, though I’m sure several posts will

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