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Welcome to the March 2012 edition of the Zend IBM i Newsletter. This is a monthly newsletter dedicated to PHP for the IBM i community.
NOTEWORTHY NEWS
Performance Tuning PHP on IBM i
There are many things that impact performance of PHP applications and the IBM i community has reaped significant benefits in this area. Zend has seen a great focus on speeds and feeds and has worked with customers to help implement PHP with sub-second response times.
Our forums are full of ideas about performance tuning that range from administrative ideas to PHP coding tips. There is a recorded webinar that provides real world examples from Alan Seiden and Mike Pavlak. And Zend can deliver an application audit that examines performance and best practices of the PHP scripts in the environment and summarizes the issues and opportunities for performance improvement.
Announcing Zend Framework 2 Beta 3!
Using an application framework is a great way to help build mature and productive PHP applications for the IBM i platform. We’re excited to announce a first peek at Zend Framework 2’s new view layer, the refactored database abstraction layer, and more, and learn how you can start building your applications on ZF2 today!
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FAQ: ZF2, ZF1, and making the transition »
New Solution Partner
Zend welcomes our newest Solutions Partner, Apper Systems in Sweden. Apper is an IT consulting company with 20 years of experience in customized solutions, training and consulting on the IBM i platform and will work with customers throughout Sweden and other Nordic countries.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The year’s Summit will include a special intensive workshop about PHP for IBM i with presentations and lab sections covering the basics of PHP through RPG program calls and database access using DB2 and MySQL.
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In this COMMON webcast, noted PHP speaker Alan Seiden will share "first aid" techniques that can improve web performance within minutes.
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NEUGC will offer 17 sessions on PHP and Web Development given by some of the best speakers in the IBM i community including Jon Paris, Aaron Bartell, and Don Denoncourt.
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Learn more about the new PHP Toolkit and 5 Reasons Why to Use PHP on IBM i at the free one-day IBM i Essentials 2012 Virtual Conference.
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The first webinar explored SQL Stored Procedures and how they get implemented and consumed by PHP running on IBM i. Recording available This follow-up session will explore the creation and usage of RPG programs as stored procedures and how they get implemented in a PHP application running on or off IBM i.
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This webinar will explore some of the new features that can make data mining or general DB2 usage a breeze. An IBM speaker has been invited to provide some first-hand perspectives of the new DB2 features.
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Join the largest gathering of the Power Systems user community! Visit the Zend booth in the exhibit hall and take advantage of a wide variety of PHP sessions. COMMON will feature a special track on IBM i - PHP & MySQL. This track includes sessions on the basics of PHP as well as development of customized applications.
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UPCOMING TRAINING
Online trainings offer students the opportunity to learn from expert instructors in 2 hr per day sessions. Courses offer real-life examples and interactive hands-on training to sharpen existing skills and add new ones.
PHP I: Foundations (IBM i /OS Programmers)
This course provides ILE programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language. This course guides students through the basics of PHP with numerous examples and hands-on exercises, and makes frequent reference to the similarities and differences between the PHP and RPG languages. May 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30 & June 1 (English on-line class) from 6-8am PST (1-3pm GMT)
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