ZendCon 2011 UnCon
If you were looking at the UnCon at ZendCon and wondering what, if anything, you should do, let me give you a couple of hints. The UnCon is the place where people who either
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ZendCon 2010 Podcasts
Earlier this year I started posting the recordings from ZendCon 2010 as podcasts. Unfortunately, as often happens, my time started to get eaten up by a bunch of other activities and I ended up
ZendCon Badge WordPress plugin
If you are speaking at, attending, sponsoring or exhibiting at ZendCon this year I invite you to download and install the ZendCon Badge WordPress plugin. It’s fun and super easy. Download the plugin from
Planning is underway for ZendCon
… and has been for a bit now. This year I get the distinct honor (???? 🙂 ) of being in charge of the content for ZendCon. And for those who are wondering, no
ZendCon 2010 Podcast – Pragmatic Guide to Git
Speaker
Travis Swicegood
Abstract
Git is hard; at least if you listen to the naysayers. Actually, you need to know a handful of commands to navigate Git successfully. This talk demystifies Git. Once we’re finished you’ll know everything you need to start using Git in your day-to-day projects and collaboratively with other developers..
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The ZendCon Sessions are distributed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License, Please honor this license and the rights of our authors.
ZendCon 2010 Podcast – Unit Testing in Zend Framework 1.8
Speaker
Michelangelo van Dam
Abstract
Zend Framework 1.8 has improved and simplified how you can test your applications, providing you with excellent techniques to streamline your quality assurance processes and reduce your maintenance costs.
Licensing:
The ZendCon Sessions are distributed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License, Please honor this license and the rights of our authors.
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ZendCon 2010 Podcast – Introducing Zend Framework 2.0
Speaker
Ralph Schindler (Penn) and Matthew Weier O’Phinney (Teller)
Abstract
Zend Framework has grown tremendously since the first public preview release in March 2006. Originally a slim, MVC framework with a number of standalone components, it has grown to a codebase more than 2M lines of code. Work now turns to version 2, with goals of increased simplicity and advanced PHP 5.3 usage.
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ZendCon 2010 Podcast – Do You Queue?
Speaker
Kevin Schroeder
Abstract
There has been a lot of talk over the past several years about the difference between performance and scalability. When talking about building a scalable application queuing is a concept that many PHP developers are not overly familiar with. In this talk we will demonstrate how you can use the Zend Server Job Queue to scale your application.
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ZendCon 2010 Podcast – A New Approach To Object Persistence In PHP
Speaker
Stefan Priebsch
Abstract
The object-relational impedance mismatch makes persisting PHP objects in a relational database a daunting task. How about these new schemaless NoSQL databases? We will have a look at the problems involved with persisting PHP objects, and introduce design patterns that help solving these problems. Putting the patterns to good use, we will build a working PHP object persistence solution for MongoDB.
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Podcasts are a-coming
Just a real quick note. I received the podcasts from ZendCon 2010 back in December and opened up a contest to let people choose which order they wanted to hear the sessions in. The order is in and I have already started posting them, starting with Dependency Injection. I would have done the Unit Testing after ZF 1.8 but Michelangelo is doing a webinar with us on the 19th, so I will post the recording of his ZendCon session afterwards.