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Welcome to the August edition of the Zend IBM i Newsletter! This is a monthly newsletter dedicated to PHP for the IBM i community.
ZEND PLATFORM - Web Application Server for Multi-Server Environments
Zend Platform for i5/OS is a robust PHP environment designed for IT personnel and businesses that require commercial-grade Web applications in highly reliable production environments. Operating like the QSYSOPR Message Queue for your PHP scripts, Zend Platform provides detailed application visibility. From development, through testing and into production you can then quickly respond to application and database issues and accelerate development, meet deadlines and ensure successful deployments every time.
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Some comments from the IBM i community:
"Why wait until production to leverage Platform? We utilize Platform to help us trap out fundamental problems immediately vs. waiting until the end. We don't have time to waste time trying to find something."
Larry Nies, President of NSC, Inc.
"The caching technology of Zend Platform is critical to our applications' performance."
John Horner, IBM Power Systems Programming Manager, APi Group
"When I deploy a new web application, I always feel a mix of excitement and trepidation. Zend Platform clearly reduces the trepidation quite a bit. With it, I can monitor performance, see a stack trace, re-create any circumstance with all web server variables, and, in general, know that I can handle whatever comes up. That leaves me with just the excitement!"
Alan Seiden, Senior Developer and Technical Lead, Strategic Business Systems
ZendCon: October 19th – October 22nd
at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center
The conference will be the largest gathering of the PHP Community and will bring together PHP developers and business managers from around the world for three days of exceptional presentations and networking events. At ZendCon 2009, sessions will focus on creating, deploying and managing applications that take advantage of the speed, scalability and simplicity of PHP.
Below is a list of the i5-specific tracks and:
"Zend Core for IBM i Security Consideration" presented by Tony Cairns, IBM
Practical security considerations for PHP on i5/OS. This session will cover i5/OS specific administrative concerns with Apache setup (PASE/ILE), files, libraries, etc. Followed by i5/OS unique PHP programming APIs from i5/OS toolkit and various DB2 direct access considerations. This will not duplicate other sessions covering in-depth PHP programming security issues.
"Mazda: Advanced web services and PHP: strengths & flaws" presented by Olivier LÈpine, Quatrain Technologies
2009 has seen the launch of a brand new cars plate management system in France (web services based on WS-* exts & java). Among the 36 carmakers on the market, only Mazda decided to develop with PHP on its IBM i servers (AS/400). This session describes how PHP helped Mazda connect its IT to the Interior Ministry web services, what still lacks, what the versatility of PHP and ZF made possible.
"Mobile Applications Using Zend Framework" presented by Lane Nelson, HarrisData
Mobile devices are everywhere, and introduce new challenges for application development. Real-world experiences gathered from a mobile prototype of RTI Software SalesFirst developed using Zend Framework on the IBM i platform will be examined. Key issues include: rethinking the user experience, determining appropriate standards, and leveraging the unique capabilities of the mobile device.
"PHP and IBM i - Database Alternatives" presented by Erwin Earley, IBM
Interested in leveraging data in DB2 on IBM i with PHP web applications - then this session is for you! We will explore how PHP features such as the Zend toolkit and DB2 language extensions can be used to take your DB2 on i data to the web regardless of whether you prefer accessing the data through native I/O calls or through SQL compliant syntax. Additionally, this session will explore the IBMDB2i storage engine for those who want to deploy MySQL based open community applications on i and store the resulting data in DB2 tables.
"Scale Vertically with IBM Power Systems" presented by Sam Hennessy, Zend
The only way to scale your PHP application is horizontally? If you believe that then you could be missing a huge opportunity. This talk will layout why scaling vertically with the Power System platform can be a superior alternative to a traditional LAMP stack. With simplify development, reduce operation costs and a true enterprise quality database. You may never want to go back to LAMP.
"PHP on the i5" presented by Mike Pavlak, Zend
A lot of IBM i customers are exploring PHP as a complement existing solutions. This tutorial will cover several topics that help explain the practical application of PHP in an IBM i strategy. We will explore the use of the i5 toolkit in depth with several examples. The implementation of the next generation of the Zend Stack will be reviewed along with the various installation options and a tour of the new features. Configuration and use of advanced debugging techniques using the new features on Zend Studio 7 and Zend Platform will be discussed. A review of the implementation of an open source project on IBM i using MySQL will also be included and much, much more!
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Zend Online PHP Training for IBM i
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A-Zend PHP for the IBM i Programmer
This bundle is designed for IBM i programmers that not only want to learn to tie existing RPG applications to PHP, but also want to acquire a solid foundation in PHP culminating in the PHP 5 Certification.
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Includes:
- Zend Online Training: PHP I: Foundations for IBM i Programmers
- Zend Online Training: PHP II: Higher Structures
- Zend Online Training: Test Prep: PHP 5 Certification
- PHP 5 Certification Exam Voucher
- Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide - PDF version
- Zend PHP 5 Certification Online Practice Test - 10 pack
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* Receive an additional 10% discount when using coupon code i510. The offer is valid through August 21, 2009.
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