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Zend Framework - The Big Q&A
It has been almost a year since the 1.0 release of Zend Framework. In that time we've seen some of the most trafficked sites in the world deployed on ZF, many popular enterprise-oriented projects built with ZF, and some of the greatest times ever had (while coding) using ZF. Since our community has been so great in giving back to the project, we decided it's the Zend Framework team's turn to find a new way to give back.

On April 30, 2008, Zend's very own Zend Framework team made themselves available for a 2-hour Q&A session. Click below to hear the outcome!



5250 Bridge and Zend Platform

Jon Paris, co-founder of Partner400 and RPG Expert, will discuss Zend’s 5250 Bridge.  He will provide a brief 5250 Bridge technical overview and touch on how to use the 5250 Bridge API's in PHP script.  Additionally, Jon will illustrate, step by step, how to start a 5250 session, interact with the 5250 data stream, and display an HTML view of a sample RPG program bundled with the product.

Learn how to:
  • Get input/output fields info
  • Assign a value to an input field
  • Send a function key action
  • Run multiple applications from a PHP program
  • Create and display an HTML for a 5250 screen display
  • Add an image to an HTML page.
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Improve Web-application performance with Zend Platform
The overall responsiveness and reliability of PHP web applications is determined by a wide range of factors. PHP developers and web administrators often struggle with a patchwork of technologies to identify and remove bottlenecks and causes of failure. Zend Platform offers a comprehensive solution to this problem. At every stage of the application lifecycle it helps developers and administrators understand and improve the quality, performance and reliability of their PHP applications.
Zend Platform improves the performance of PHP applications by caching pre-optimized PHP byte code and content in a number of ways, including file or URL based page caching, client-side caching and in-memory or disk based data caching. In addition to the powerful caching functionality, Zend Platform also offers automatic output compression to save bandwidth, enhanced job-queues for deferred and offline processing and an improved download server for optimized delivery of large content and media files.
In this webinar we use a imaginary photo-sharing website, created using Zend Framework, to demonstrate the impact on performance and responsiveness by the various Zend Platform options.

Presented by: Shahar Evron, PHP Expert, Zend Technologies

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Modernization -- Zend's PHP Methodology for i5/OS

More and more organizations are focusing on how to leverage their i5/OS investment in order to better connect with the employees, customers, and partners. Creating web-based applications utilizing both DB2/400 data and green screen applications is one of the quickest means to accomplish this.

Zend and IBM have collaborated to create a solution suite enabling customers to rapidly produce large, complex web-based applications. Not only will companies be able to leverage their business logic and infrastructure on which these applications exist but also being able to easily provide their existing resources with a skill set in-demand in the marketplace.

This webinar articulates a methodology to develop and deploy standards-based PHP applications, and Zend’s solutions to deliver on SLAs for business critical applications. When organizations take on a new technology like PHP, then move down the operational maturity curve, and the goal of these best practices is to re-achieve the same level of maturity within 3-6 months while developing, debugging, deploying and managing these web-enabled applications.

Presented by Siddhartha Agarwal, VP Americas Field Operations, Zend Technologies

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