Zend Newsletter: July 2010 Having trouble viewing this email? Read the online version. Featured Tips & Tricks Guidelines for Deploying PHP Code Moving PHP code from development to production may sound easy, but without the proper code, tools and methods you may find yourself spending too much time on deployments, rollbacks and troubleshooting. Kevin Schroeder presents best practices for PHP deployment. Watch recorded webinar » View more Tips & Tricks Featured Webinar— register now! Using a Column-oriented Database for Developing High-performance Analytic Applications July 22, 2010 - 9:00 am PDT A column-oriented database is a great choice for anyone building data warehouse and BI applications. By using the open source Infobright database and PHP you can quickly build high-performance, scalable analytic applications while keeping costs at bay. Join a webinar by Infobright and Zend to learn more. Register for webinar » View more Webinars Learn Industry Tips & Tricks Implementing PHP Session Clustering A new technical white paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of common methods for storing PHP session data. Using Microsoft SQL Server for Session Storage Zend Server Cluster Manager provides an excellent session storage mechanism, however you may choose to save PHP sessions in SQL Server. Enrico Zimuel explains how. Creating Zend_Tool Providers Learn how to extend the ZF command line tool by writing your own Zend_Tool providers. Optimizing Joomla Performance A new benchmark compares the performance of the Joomla Content Management System when using different PHP caching methods, such as Zend Optimizer+, APC and Memcached. Code Faster with PDT 2.2 and Eclipse Helios Take a tour of the new PHP Development Tools (PDT) release. Learn about the source editing enhancements that will help you code faster, and hear an update on the Eclipse Helios release from Roy Ganor, the Eclipse PDT Project Lead. How to Set Up a PHP Cluster in Under 10 Minutes Watch a 10 minute YouTube video to learn how you can easily set up a cluster with Zend Server Cluster Manager.   Check out our new Webinars Bring your Intranet to the IBM i with Drupal and Zend Server 5 See how easy it is to add an Intranet to your IBM i. This session will walk you through the steps necessary to download, install and configure a basic Drupal site. July 20, 2010 - 9:00 am PDT Register for webinar » Testing Your Zend Framework MVC Application In this webinar, we'll look at what to test, how to test, some common testing patterns, and what things you might have difficulty with. July 28, 2010 - 9:00 am PDT Register for webinar » Check out what's new on DevZone Pragmatic Bookshelf: SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming Become part of the Zend Community Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Let us know what you think Get the Latest Zend News Zend Server Cluster Manager is Here! Following months of beta testing, Zend Server Cluster Manager has been released. The new addition to our production solution will help you scale up your PHP application, manage a large-scale PHP deployment and provide a fast failover solution. Learn More » New Zend Framework Advanced Course The "Zend Framework: Advanced" course is designed to teach developers already working with Zend Framework how to apply best practices when building and configuring applications for scalability, interactivity, and high performance. Learn More » Virtualization Survey Drawing Winners Announced Thank you to everyone who participated in the Zend/VMware survey, and congratulations to the drawing winners. Read More » Join our Events OCEAN - 17th Annual Tech Conference July 16, 2010 - Costa Mesa, California OCEAN will feature the latest technologies for modernizing and extending your applications and topics will include presentations about IBM i and PHP. Learn More/Register » Dallas TechFest 2010 July 30, 2010 - University of Texas at Dallas Join Kevin Schroeder for a session about Deploying PHP Applications and investigate basic methods to manage a predictable deployment. Learn More/Register » Read Kevin's Blog Zend Server Cluster Manager PHP is designed using a shared-nothing architecture. What that means is that each individual PHP request is isolated from every other PHP request. That's great! It makes for a very stable, very easy to use architecture. But what happens when you go beyond one server? Read more » You are currently subscribed to Zend PHP Updates as EmailAddress. Unsubscribe from Zend PHP Updates | Manage your subscriptions | Privacy Policy Zend Technologies Inc. 19200 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 USA