Zend Newsletter: May 2011
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Zend Newsletter - May 2011
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Improving QA on PHP Development Projects tweet

Everyone's interested in writing higher-quality code, but changes are tough to implement when you don't have a clue where to start. In this webinar Michelangelo van Dam demonstrates some of the tools that developers can use to improve code quality, including PHPLint, PHPUnit, XDebug, Phar, and more.

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Building Mobile Applications using PHP and Flex tweet

May 25, 2011 – 10:00 am EDT, 7:00 am PDT - hosted by Adobe
Without the right tools and technologies, developing in the mobile app world can be time-consuming and expensive. In this webinar, you'll learn how to use Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP to build, debug, and deploy native mobile apps for multiple devices (yes, including iOS!)

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Anonymous Functions in PHP 5.3 tweet
In this webinar, Matthew O'Phinney talks about how anonymous functions in PHP 5.3 work, and discusses a variety of use cases for which you may find them useful.
Application Development: In the Cloud, It's Not The Same tweet
Charlie Babcock of InformationWeek, Andrew Binstock of Dr. Dobb's Journal and Andi Gutmans of Zend Technologies discuss why cloud-based apps are different from older large-scale enterprise systems, and talk about general long term, distributed, scale-out design principles.
Introducing "PaaS in a Box" - Scalable, Flexible, Portable PHP in the Cloud tweet
What if you could combine the flexibility of PaaS with the customizability of IaaS, while avoiding cloud lock-in? This webinar introduces the new joint Zend-RightScale solution that provides high availability, control and massive scalability for PHP applications running in the cloud.
Making Data More Accessible at Bell Helicopter with Infobright and Zend tweet
Bell Helicopter needed to allow its thousands of employees easy access to and flexible analysis of business information from over 40 sources of data, including HR, financial, and material and manufacturing. Join this webinar to learn how they achieved their goals.
Use ZF2 Autoloaders in your ZF1 applications tweet
One Zend Framework 2 feature you can use today in your Zend Framework 1 applications is the new autoloading system; in fact, Matthew has recently backported it to PHP 5.2 so you can use it without updating to PHP 5.3. Read the article to find out how!
A use case of Zend_Acl and Zend_Auth using a database and LDAP tweet
In this article, Enrico Zimuel shows how to use Zend Framework to manage the authentication and the authorization system of a web site, using a database to store the resources, roles, and permissions of web users, and how to integrate that authentication with LDAP.
Building a data-centric application with Flash Builder for PHP tweet
Ever wished your PHP apps had richer, more interactive interfaces? Ryan Stewart, Adobe platform evangelist, walks through a tutorial on creating data-driven PHP applications with rich Flex front ends using the new joint Adobe-Zend product.
 
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Introduction to Adobe Flash Builder for PHP tweet
Join this webinar to learn how you can deliver connected, cross-platform native mobile applications quickly and efficiently.
May 18, 2011 – 10:00 am EDT, 7:00 am PDT - hosted by Adobe
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Using Doctrine2 ODM with Zend Framework tweet
This webinar will explore the Object-Document-Mapper, and how to get it running in Zend Framework and Doctrine2 ODM applications.
May 26, 2011 – 10:30 am EDT, 7:30 am PDT
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Creating stunning data analytics dashboards using PHP and Flex tweet
Learn how to analyze data visually in the web browser and how to build and debug web, desktop and data driven applications with Flash Builder for PHP.
June 01, 2011 – 10:00 am EDT, 7:00 am PDT - hosted by Adobe
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Creating Fast, Dynamic ACLs in Zend Framework tweet
Join Wim Godden to learn how to set up and manage a dynamic, reflection-based Access Control Layer system with built-in caching, and simplify maintenance as well as improve performance of Zend Framework's ACL system.
June 15, 2011 – 12:00 pm EDT, 9:00 am PDT
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Strong Cryptography in PHP tweet
What is strong cryptography and why should we use it? Learn more about using strong cryptography in PHP to protect sensitive data.
June 30, 2011 – 10:30 am EDT, 7:30 am PDT
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Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP Is Available
Zend and Adobe's joint PHP and Flex IDE is now available for trial download and purchase.
Zend and RightScale Deliver Platform as a Service (PaaS) for PHP
Deploy and manage highly-available web applications in the cloud.
Zend Framework 1.11.6 and 1.10.9 are Available
These newest Zend Framework releases include bug and security fixes.
ZendCon 2011 Call for Papers Is Out
Submit session proposals for the premier PHP conference, October 17-20 in Santa Clara.
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May 18, 2011 - 6:30 pm - West Chester, PA
Explore how to optimize efforts with PHP applications. Open source example applications like Magento eCommerce, osCommerce, Joomla, SugarCRM, Drupal, will be used.
RightScale User Conference
June 08, 2011 - Javits Convention Center, New York
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June 11, 2011 - Saturday, 8:00 am - 5:30 pm - Dallas, Texas
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Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP by Adobe and Zend - UG Meeting
June 16, 2011 - 6:30 - 9:00 pm MDT - Denver, Colorado
Join Kevin Schroder, Zend Technology Evangelist, as he goes through all of the main considerations for building an end-to-end RIA application using Flex and PHP.
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A Deep Dive Into ZendCon Topics and Themes

Kevin Schroeder, who's in charge of the content side of ZendCon 2011, gives his take on its topics and themes, and the kinds of talks his committee is looking for.
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