ZendCon 2010 Podcasts

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Reusable Bootstrap Resources with Zend_Application

Speaker: Hector Virgen
Abstract: This session demonstrates how to build configurable and reusable bootstrap resources powered entirely by application.ini. Covers basic and advanced bootstrapping techniques, sharing bootstrap resources between applications, and accessing resources from within your applications.

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00:57:53

Pragmatic Guide to Git

Speaker: Travis Swicegood
Abstract: Git is hard; at least if you listen to the naysayers. Actually, you need to know a handful of commands to navigate Git successfully. This talk demystifies Git. Once we're finished you'll know everything you need to start using Git in your day-to-day projects and collaboratively with other developers.

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00:57:53

Unit Testing in Zend Framework 1.8

Speaker: Michelangelo van Dam
Abstract: Zend Framework 1.8 has improved and simplified how you can test your applications, providing you with excellent techniques to streamline your quality assurance processes and reduce your maintenance costs.

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00:58:21

Introducing Zend Framework 2.0

Speakers: Ralph Schindler (Penn) and Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Teller)
Abstract: Zend Framework has grown tremendously since the first public preview release in March 2006. Originally a slim, MVC framework with a number of standalone components, it has grown to a codebase more than 2M lines of code. Work now turns to version 2, with goals of increased simplicity and advanced PHP 5.3 usage.

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01:02:10

Do You Queue?

Speaker: Kevin Schroeder
Abstract: There has been a lot of talk over the past several years about the difference between performance and scalability. When talking about building a scalable application queuing is a concept that many PHP developers are not overly familiar with. In this talk we will demonstrate how you can use the Zend Server Job Queue to scale your application.

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01:00:03

A New Approach To Object Persistence In PHP

Speaker: Stefan Priebsch
Abstract: The object-relational impedance mismatch makes persisting PHP objects in a relational database a daunting task. How about these new schemaless NoSQL databases? We will have a look at the problems involved with persisting PHP objects, and introduce design patterns that help solving these problems. Putting the patterns to good use, we will build a working PHP object persistence solution for MongoDB.

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01:01:22

Dependency Injection

Speaker: Fabien Potencier
Abstract: This session introduced one of the less-known design patterns in the PHP world, but also one that can greatly improve the decoupling and the testability of your code: Dependency Injection. I will demonstrate how to use Dependency Injection in your projects, and I will take advantage of the PHP 5.3 new features to create a fully-featured DI container live.

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