Zend Developer Zone: ZendCon Update!
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With the date for the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo (October 8-11th, San Francisco) conference growing closer all the time, the more updates the better. The Zend Developer Zone has such an update with more details about the keynote talks, sessions, the "after hours" events and more.   Ok, it's been a few days since I've given a ZendCon update so let's burn a few bytes and talk about what is being planned.   The updates concerning the keynotes are the topics the two speakers will be presenting - Cory Doctorow on "copy machines" and Joel Spolsky with his "Great Software" talk. The sessions for the conference are still mostly the same, but the "after hours" activities have exploded.   Things on the list include a ZCE party on Monday, Happy Hour 2.0 on Tuesday and on Wednesday an all-out karaoke party poolside at the hotel.   There's still plenty of time to register for the event and to get more details on the conference and the whens and wheres, check out the main conference site.
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Zend has a new tutorial posted in their PHP 101 series - PHP 101 (part 9): SQLite My Fire!
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On his blog, Premature Optimization, Shahar Evron has posted some information about work he's done on the Zend_Http_Client package of the Zend Framework - including the push to make it live.   Earlier this week, I finally (after long and hard work) pushed the Zend_Http_Client out of the incubator and into the core of Zend Framework, and it will be released with the 0.6 preview release.   Some of the things introduced in this package include the introduction of "connection adapters", a method of having an adapter object made responsible for handling the networking connection. The default for this is the socket adapter, but work is already being done to create cURL and  future ideas for a caching adapter or a pfsockopen-based option for more preferment connection needs.   Shahar also includes some stats to show off what the new package can do and how many requests per second it can handle.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted both the Zend Weekly Summaries issues #323 and #324.   In #323, there's talk of OpenSSL integration, a CVS server change, and several PHP security discussions (a suggested read).   Issue #324 talks about runtime JIT proposals, debugging overloaded objects, more on PHP security, the release of PHP 5.2.1 RC3, and more "fine grained" control over allow_url_*   Be sure to keep up with the latest mailing list and community happenings through these great updates from Steph Fox.
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For anyone keeping up with the PHP 5 Programming Contest that Zend hosted - the final results have been posted!
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In a new post today, Mike Naberezny talks about some updates that have been made to the XML-RPC client included with the Zend Framework, spotlighting three items in particular.   A few weeks ago, I rewrote the Zend XML-RPC client as part of a customer project at Maintainable. After fixing a fair number of bugs and writing a test suite, I made some enhancements and usability improvements. You can learn more about the new XML-RPC client from its documentation.    The three new updates to the package deal with:  Calling remote methods (a new call() method) Server proxy objects have been added Faults are thrown as PHP exceptions  Get more details on this package from its page on the Zend Framework's website.
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The Zend Developer Zone is back today with the latest edition of their podcast - episode two of PHP Abstract. This time, special guest Matthew Weir O'Phinney talks about the benefits of using a change management system.   This episode is the second published by the Zend Developer Zone with the first being a look at security with some tips from Eli White.   You can download the show directly from the site or add in their podcast feed to your aggregator and get the latest episodes delivered right to your desktop.
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The Zend Developer Zone as an update posted for the entire Zend Framework community with some details about the upcoming months and milestones.   Zend Framework has been picking up its pace of development recently. Many great improvements are coming soon in areas such as MVC, Acl, Authentication, Session handling, Search engine, and Gdata. There is also some great work in progress for Locale, Date, and others.   Other updates mentioned include a mid-December release date for a new Preview Release, a wiki page to show future release dates, a mention that the ZF is free software, and that the document translation section of the team is still (as always) in need of help. If you feel like getting in on the action, check out this page on the ZF wiki for more details.
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Chris Hartjes has posted the first part of a series on the "rebirth" of a component that was contributed to the Zend Framework - Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler (to interface with the Audioscrobbler service from Last.fm).   Many moons ago I set out (along with my friend Derek) to make a contribution to Zend Framework in the form of an add-on to let people easily access the Audioscrobbler web service. We worked really hard, implemented all the features of the web service at that time. Imagine our surprise when it got accepted as part of the 1.0 release of Zend Framework! Awesome! It even has it's own entry in the manual and everything.   He admits, though, that the code is not all that it could be and cites some examples as well as ways he would make it all work so much better.
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In this new post to his blog today, Raphael Stolt shows how to combine the Zend Framework and Phing to create a simple, quick setup utility for future ZF projects.   After spending too much time on directory and view script shifting to align an 'older' Zend Framework application to the very useful ViewRenderer Action Helper of the follow-up releases I crafted a single Phing buildfile to stick to the recommended conventions and to have a nearly 'one-button' setup solution for any upcoming projects.    He'd found some other packages that did something similar, but wanted to do it with Phing. He includes the requirements (the software) features that the buildfile makes easy to include and some future improvements that could be made to the install to make things even easier. The buildfile is included and any path or configuration changes that might need to be made.    Phing is a "make" replacement that uses XML build files to define tasks in classes.
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Well, the official announcement has been made and the Zend Developer Zone has the scoop on the latest release of the Zend Framework - Preview Release 0.6.0.    This represents a watershed for Zend Framework: we have passed the halfway point. We decided to advance the version number more than the customary "one-tenth" increment.   We are at a phase in which we are focused on finishing the components of the product. As we are approaching a state of feature-completeness, a Beta Release, and then the General Release of version 1.0, we have created a more precise roadmap for the scope and schedule of upcoming preview releases of Zend Framework.    Updates in this edition include:  Lucene-compatible search engine query language Improved Session-handling design Improved XmlRpc client and server Emerging components for I18N, Getopt, Mail folders, and others. Solutions for 126 bugs and feature enhancements, recorded in our issue tracker.    You can read up about all this and more on the Zend Framework Wiki home page.
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The Zend Developer Zone has an announcement about another "Webinar Wednesday" that Zend is putting on June 20th focusing on the Zend Framework (version 1.0).   The Zend Framework is emerging as the preferred PHP programmer's toolkit for designing Web applications with best practices. In the month's prior to the 1.0 release, Zend Framework had over 1 million downloads and multiple commercial products are already being developed with Zend Framework. In this webinar, Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager, will provide an overview of the design philosophy, the major components of the framework and its future directions. Topics will cover MVC, Search, Data Access, Web Services, Filter, Authentication, Cache and more.   You can sign up by going to the conference's website and entering all of your information. Details on how to connect and when will be sent to your email. The event if free of charge, so there's no reason not to come and get the latest scoop on this powerful framework's upcoming version.
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Alexander Netkachev has a quick announcement for users of the Zend Framework posted to his blog today:   This week we have a few important news from ZF team. First, the 0.8.0 release is ready and, as usual, you can download it from Zend's site. [...] Thanks to Vanne, we now have PDF version of Zend Framework documentation    He also mentions another guide aimed at helping you bring your Zend Framework application up to date (with the newer versions of the Zend_Controller.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the seventh episode of their ZendCon sessions (as recorded at 2007's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo).   Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Eli White present "High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques".    The usual three methods are all there for enjoying this new episode: grab the mp3 directly, listen using the player on the page or you can get this and other great episodes by subscribing to their podcast feed.
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Nick Halstead takes a look at another aspect of the Zend Framework in his latest blog post - the ACL component in the most recent release, Zend Framework RC1.   Yesterday RC1 of Zend Framework was released. I have been working away using it for several months and I have tried to give back small snippets of code as I went along. I had to do some work on my class that extends the Zend ACL and it reminded me how I like to approach coding as a whole.   He goes on to look at what the Zend Framework access control functionality is and how he plans on using it. He follows this with a few code snippets that, among other things, show how the Zend_Config_Ini component could be used to maintain the access list.
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According to the Zend Developer Zone, the Zend Framework is going to the even more powerful in the future with the inclusion of command line functionality.   So, without further adieu, it is my pleasure to announce that Zend Framework 1.5 will include a robust, powerful, and- yes- 15-minute-demo-enabled command line interface for code generation!   They've set up a default structure (that's "recommended") but doesn't have to be strictly adhered to. They know how most developers have structured their applications and made it accordingly. There's three proposals in the group - the Zend_Console, Zend_Build component and the Zend_Build for Core.
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