Welcome to the May edition of the Zend IBM i Newsletter! This is a monthly newsletter dedicated to PHP for the IBM i community.

ZEND IBM i PRODUCT NEWS AND UPDATES

Make PHP Troubleshooting Easy With Zend Studio 7.2 IBM i Edition

Anyone developing in PHP for the IBM i platform now has a new tool in their debugging arsenal: Zend Studio 7.2 IBM i Edition reduces troubleshooting time and hassles with an integrated viewer that opens code traces captured by Zend Server in your IBM i production environment, allowing you to quickly pinpoint functional errors or performance slowdowns.

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Top 5 Reasons RPG Programmers like PHP - By Jon Paris

Jon Paris has been teaching PHP to RPGers for several years now, including his current series for System iNEWS. As a result he often receives emails from RPGers who "gave it a try" telling him how much they are enjoying this new world and describing their successes. The article shows why PHP appears to have been so much more successful among RPGers.

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System i Events

Update on TEC 2010 - Toronto Users Group for Power Systems April 27, 2010 - Seneca@York University - Toronto, Ontario

The 17th annual conference was a great success. Zeev Suraski (Zend's co-founder and CTO) delivered a keynote session covering Enterprise PHP as well as interactive demos of the leading PHP development and deployment solutions. The 3x increase in attendance over last year, the high level of participant engagement, and the insightful questions during/after the sessions were highlights of the event.

upcoming System i Events

Classroom series: PHP102 for the RPG Programmer
May 24th 2010, US

Mike Pavlak will lead a technical series that builds upon the knowledge learned in PHP101. By building the components of a CRUD application, Mike will explore more of the key features of PHP on IBM i.

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Webinar: Improving Application Performance - Submitting PHP scripts to Batch using Zend Server 5 for IBM i
May 25, 2010 - 9:00 am PDT

Learn how to leverage the multi-user capabilities of the IBM i and Zend Server infrastructure to help improve overall application performance.

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COMMON Europe Conference 2010
12 – 15 June, Stratford upon Avon, UK

Visit COMMON Europe where education, innovation, and POWER meet with IBM experts and industry professionals. Enrico Zimuel, Zend Consultant, will be delivering sessions on Getting Started with PHP on IBM i, PHP 101 Development and PHP Toolkit.

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Bring your Intranet to the IBM i with Drupal and Zend Server 5
June 23, 2010

Learn how easy it is to add an Intranet to your IBM i. Drupal is the hottest PHP open source content management system and can be the perfect complement to your PHP infrastructure. This webinar will help everyone looking to manage costs and leverage the value of IBM i.

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