| Visit our Events Page to view a list of our upcoming Webinars. Click on one of the following links to view previous Webinars: |
![]() |
Recent Webinars
![]() |
Standard Blog on standard PHP Stack - WordPress and Zend Server In this session Jan Burkl demonstrates the Software Lifecycle of WordPress and Zend Server from development to production. See how WordPress can be deployed, bugs can be fixed and performance bottlenecks can be found and eliminated. Presenter – Jan Burkl (61 min) - May 10, 2012 |
![]() |
Database Deployment with Zend Server and Liquibase Learn how to integrate Liquibase in your Zend Server and start deploying or rolling back database changes in an easy way. Presenter – Slavey Karadzhov (55 min) - May 09, 2012 |
![]() |
Advanced Functions of DB2 with PHP on IBM i IBM has quietly been sneaking many incredible features to DB2 on IBM i. This webinar explores some of the more useful new features that can make data mining or general DB2 usage a breeze. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (56 min) - May 02, 2012 |
| |
Views, Renderers, Resolvers, oh, my! Learn about Zend Framework 2.0's new view layer, and how you can leverage it to switch output formats, utilized alternate rendering strategies, and more. Presenter – Matthew Weier O'Phinney (53 min) - April 25, 2012 |
![]() |
Standard Shop on standard PHP Stack - Magento and Zend Server In this session Jan Burkl demonstrates the Software Lifecycle of Magento and Zend Server from development to production. See how Magento can be deployed, bugs can be fixed and performance bottlenecks can be found and eliminated. Presenter – Jan Burkl (61 min) - April 24, 2012 |
| |
Stored Procedures with PHP and IBM i - Part II In the first Stored Procedures webinar, Mike Pavlak explored SQL Stored Procedures and how they get implemented and consumed by PHP running on IBM i. In this follow-up session, Mike explores 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. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (38 min) - April 12, 2012 |
|
Project Development in the Cloud - Do We Still Need Internal Servers? Is the cloud able to provide everything a developer needs? This webinar highlights different aspects of modern development environments and glance into what the future might hold. Presenter – Jan Burkl - (56 min) April 04, 2012 |
|
Introducing ZendDb 2.0 Using insights from Zend_Db 1.0 usage scenarios, the ZendDb component has been refactored in Zend Framework 2, with greater flexibility, extensibility and modularity in mind. In this webinar we have a look at the new Adapter system, ResultSet iteration, TableGateway and RowGateway integration, and ZendDbSql, a query abstraction tool. We also examine how PHP 5.3's feature-set has influenced the design of the ZendDb API. Presenter – Ralph Schindler (65 min) April 03, 2012 |
| |
The Truth About Lambdas and Closures in PHP This presentation focuses on what exactly lambdas are as well as the difference between a lambda and a closure, or whether there is any given their implementation in PHP. In addition, we have a look at improvements pertaining to closures in the upcoming PHP 5.4. Far greater emphasis is on live code demonstrations as well as in-depth discussion about the code. Presenters: Sharon Lee Levy & Kevin Schroeder (47 min) - March 29, 2012 |
![]() |
Studio's Eleven - Hidden Features in Zend's IDE In this session, Jan Burkl discusses 11 little-known features of Zend Studio. Do you want to know how to debug a web service, or what Step Filters are used for? Do you want to save typing work by using Templates? If you’re interested in becoming a Zend Studio power user, don’t miss this webinar! Presenter – Jan Burkl (63 min) - March 28, 2012 |
![]() |
Standard CMS on standard PHP Stack - Drupal and Zend Server In this session Jan Burkl demonstrates the Software Lifecycle of Drupal and Zend Server from development to production. See how Drupal can be deployed, bugs can be fixed and performance bottlenecks can be found and eliminated. Presenter – Jan Burkl (60 min) - March 21, 2012 |
![]() |
Writing testable Code In this session you will gain insight into the secret of writing easily testable code and you'll learn how this relates essentially to good object orientation. Presenter – Tobias Schlitt, Qafoo GmbH (61 min) March 15, 2012 |
| |
Performance Tuning PHP on IBM i In this webinar, Mike Pavlak and Alan Seiden discuss some of the more fundamental areas that reveal performance bottlenecks. They explore hardware, software and configuration options that will help your PHP applications fly. The discussion reviews features for both Zend Server and Zend Server CE. Presenters – Mike Pavlak & Alan Seiden (60 min) - March 6, 2012 |
| |
Better Bug-Stomping with Zend Studio and Zend Server In this webinar, you’ll learn how the combination of Zend Studio 9 and Zend Server gives you the deep insight into PHP requests on production so you can fix problems faster and get back to what you’d rather be doing. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder (59 min) - February 29, 2012 |
![]() |
Git for Subversion Users In this webinar, learn more about the concepts of Git, the benefits of Git over Subversion as well as how to use Git successfully for your projects. Presenter – Stefan Koopmanschap (58 min) February 23, 2012 |
| Dev & Prod - PHP Applications in the Cloud Beyond the hype, cloud computing presents a real opportunity to build and deploy apps quickly and at low cost. If you're considering testing or deploying your PHP applications on the cloud, this session is an ideal introduction. Learn how to develop and test on phpcloud.com with a Zend Framework application and its Zend_Cloud component, and how to deploy on a dynamically scalable cluster afterwards. Presenter – Jan Burkl - (65 min) February 16, 2012 |
|
Application Deployment on IBM i Learn how application deployment can automate the process of rolling in or out a full PHP application within your web server environment and see how to implement this solution on IBM using native features. This webinar walks through the process of building a deployment package and implementing it on Zend Server for IBM i. Presenter – Mike Pavlak - (44 min) February 15, 2012 |
|
Unit Testing Zend Framework Apps Zend Framework provides excellent techniques for testing applications, to streamline quality assurance processes and reduce maintenance costs. In this webinar, PHPBenelux co-founder Michelangelo van Dam takes this a step further by testing services, work flows and performance. Looking to raise the bar on quality? Let this session be the push you need to improve your Zend Framework projects. Presenter – Michelangelo van Dam (56 min) February 9, 2012 |
|
Deployment without the Chaos Learn how to harness Zend Studio and Server to easily manage the development of version controlled projects and their deployment to various environments. As a bonus, the Web API of Zend Server is used to demonstrate a way of scripting application deployment. Presenter – Eric Ritchie - (70 min) January 31, 2012 |
| Zend Server for IBM i 5.6 Update Zend and IBM have been VERY busy plugging all kinds of goodies into Zend Server for IBM i. In this webcast, Mike Pavlak takes you on a tour of the new features of Zend Server 5.6. He will explore the new Open Source Toolkit, the new MySQL implementation called Zend DBi and the newest star of the Zend Server realm: Application Deployment. Presenter – Mike Pavlak - (60 min) January 26, 2012 |
| A shop goes shopping - running Magento on Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 provides an ideal load-tolerant architecture for Magento-based stores, as the flexibility of the Cloud allows shop operators to seamlessly respond to sudden changes in store traffic. Learn in this webinar, how Magento can be simply and effectively run in the Cloud, using Zend Server and Zend Server Cluster Manager as the deployment environment. Presenter – Jan Burkl - (56 min) January 12, 2012 |
| |
Connecting to the World with Zend Studio 9 Zend Studio 9 is the most connected and streamlined IDE we have ever built. The more common tasks have been streamlined and we’ve made connecting with your management tooling easier than ever. Additionally we have made connecting to phpcloud.com or any instance of the Zend Application Fabric easier than ever. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder (42 min) December 15, 2011 |
| |
IBM i Stored Procedures for PHP and Zend Server Stored procedures have been around for a long time. In this webinar we explore many examples of accessing Stored Procedures from PHP applications running on IBM i. Parameter passing and record set access will be explored from SQL and RPG stored procedures, and much more. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (55 min) December 14, 2011 |
| Development in the 24th and a Half Century In this webinar we examine the galaxy’s latest, greatest developer solution; the Zend Developer Cloud, part of Zend’s phpcloud.com technology preview. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder - (60 min) December 1, 2011 |
|
How to Manage Cloud Infrastructures using Zend Framework To consume APIs for cloud infrastructure management and deployment in a consistent, simple and vendor agnostic manner, the ZF team has created a new component: ZendCloudInfrastructure. See a demonstation of this new component's capabilities consuming various cloud vendor services such as Amazon's EC2, Rackspace and GoGrid. Presenter – Enrico Zimuel - (44 min) November 24, 2011 |
| |
How do I securely deploy Internet websites in PHP on IBMi? This session discusses how to set up and administer the networking, Apache Configurations, work management and IBM i security in order to support a PHP environment on IBM i. Presenters – Jim Oberholtzer, CTA at Agile Technology Architects, LLC & Mike Pavlak, Zend Technologies (60 min) - October 05, 2011 |
| |
ZendServer 5.5: Bringing the Agility of PHP to IT Operations In this webinar, Joshua Solomin shows how the newly released Zend Server 5.5 gives IT organizations the tools to release faster while maintaining quality, make sure that apps are meeting their SLAs, and cut the time needed to resolve production problems. Presenter – Joshua Solomin (41 min) September 21 2011 Este webinar está disponible también en español - Aqui están las diapositivas. |
| |
Collaborative Open Source PHP on IBM i Open Source applications are a great way to get a jump start on the project backlog and really leverage on organizations investment in IBM i. In this presentation, Mike Pavlak explores even more opportunities to consolidate workload onto IBM I and Mike will show how to leverage that investment with a look at two collaborative applications from the open source PHP world. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (45 min) September 13 2011 |
| |
Classic Design Patterns in PHP Explore classic GOF design patterns and their implementation and benefits in PHP. This webinar covers the following patterns:
Presenter – Haim Michael (33 min) September 8, 2011 |
| |
A Tale of Two Toolkits. Have you heard of the exciting new open source XML Toolkit currently being developed in collaboration between IBM and Zend? Are you curious about how it works and what you need to get started? Are you aware that it is available in Zend Server 5.1 as a beta and soon to be released as GA? Well rest assured, Mike Pavlak will fill you in on the details and a little bit more. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (59 min) August 24 2011 |
| The Zend Certified Engineer Program. Show off your Expertise! The Zend Certified Engineer certification program helps you validate the skills you use every day and take your career to the next level by showcasing your expertise. Watch this webinar to
Presenter – Debbie Otterstetter (37 min) August 23 2011 |
![]() |
Introducing "PaaS in a Box". Scalable, Flexible, Portable PHP in the Cloud. What if you could combine the flexibility of PaaS with the customizability of IaaS? And what if you could effortlessly switch between different cloud providers? Join us for a demo of a new cloud solution from RightScale and Zend, which lets you • Provision a pre-configured, high availability PHP environment in minutes • Autoscale your application based on system and application load metrics • Receive system, server and application-level monitoring, alerting and diagnostics • Easily port your applications across cloud providers, such as Amazon and Rackspace. Presenter – Uri Budnik and Claudio Gentile (RightScale), Kevin Schroeder (60 min) August 17 2011 |
| |
Zend Framework Filters: The Secure Man's Best Friend The Zend Framework Filter is one of the most powerful tools in your security arsenal when creating secure, quality code in your Zend Framework Projects. ZF comes with a standard set of filters which can handle most of your day to day needs. More advanced projects may require more complex filtering scenarios, however. In that case, creating your own Zend Framework Filter may be the answer. This screencast will cover the concepts behind a filter, describe and demonstrate some of the built in filters in Zend Framework 1.11, and then step you through creating your own filter using the HTML Purifier library. Presenter – Aaron Saray, Kevin Schroeder (41 min) July 20 2011 |
| |
Application Deploying With Zend Server 5.5 Beta Zend Server 5.5 is now available for public beta evaluation! Join Kevin Schroeder, Zend Technology Evangelist, for a look at how Zend Server 5.5 helps streamline the application deployment process and helps bring consistency and automation to the entire application lifecycle. If you’re already trying out the beta, you’ll learn how to leverage its application deployment features, and if you’re not, you’ll learn how to take it for a test drive. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder (57 min) July 19 2011 |
| |
The Ideal Development Environment for IBM i Programmers The development environment for PHP begins with Zend Studio. But then where do we go? In this presentation, Mike Pavlak will explore several of the key productivity features of Zend Studio for IBM i. In addition, a discussion of plug-ins and add-ons will round out the experience. Remote project creation and code portability will also be reviewed. Presenter – Mike Pavlak, Michael Scarpato (50 min) July 17 2011 |
| |
Multibyte string handling in PHP with the mbstring extension Daniel Rhodes explores the mb_string module of PHP: what it is and (sometimes more important) what it isn't, how to get it and what the key directives are. He discusses the functions that mb_string gives us as well as regular expressions on multibyte strings, sheds a light on the gotchas and pitfalls, and shows how to get your database and HTML to also talk multibyte. Presenter – Daniel Rhodes, Warp Asylum (58 min) July 14, 2011 |
| |
Practical guide to column oriented databases in PHP This webinar is a quick crash-course and practical session that will explain:
Presenter – Slavey Karadzhov (48 min) July 8, 2011 |
| |
Strong Cryptography in PHP If you are a professional web developer, security is an important aspect of your job. If you are planning to store critical or sensitive data in your web application (passwords, credit cards, etc.), you should use strong cryptography to protect this data. But what is strong cryptography and why should we use it? Learn more about strong cryptography in PHP in this session. Presenter – Enrico Zimuel (56 min) June 30, 2011 |
| Creating Fast, Dynamic ACLs in Zend Framework Zend Framework's Access Control Layer system is simple and straight-forward; however, as the number of rules increase in size and complexity, maintenance and performance suffer. The solution: a dynamic, reflection-based ACL system, with built-in caching. Sound complicated? Don't worry, it's easy to setup and a lot easier to manage! Join this webinar to learn how! Presenter – Wim Godden, Cu.be Solutions (60 min) June 15, 2011 |
| Introduction to OOP for IBM i Programmers This presentation builds upon basic skills and begins to explore the very powerful Object Oriented model of the PHP. Fundamental Object Oriented concepts will be discussed along with practical examples. The session wraps with an real life implementation of an open source class taken from a public forum and loaded on IBM i. This is a great session to allay any fears about how to implement the optional OO model of PHP in an IBM i shop! This session is a great primer for anyone looking to explore Zend Framework and has little to no Object Oriented experience. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (65 min) June 1, 2011 |
| |
Anonymous Functions in PHP 5.3 Learn about how anonymous functions in PHP 5.3 work, and a variety of use cases to which you may put them to use. Presenter – Matthew O'Phinney (48 min) May 3rd, 2011 |
| Application Development: In the Cloud, It's Not The Same The large scale enterprise application has provided a poor model for the scale-out, cloud application. Have you gone to the wrong school? Netflix, among others, decided it had with its large Java/Oracle application. Now it's moving to a distributed, cloud architecture. And that architecture looks different from what came before.
|
| Building an Enterprise Level Single Sign On Platform in PHP With PHP marching into enterprise environments, there’s a growing need to interconnect applications. A common scenario is to want Single Sign On for a large set of applications, to lower operational costs and enhance user comfort. In this talk Ivo Jansch builds an SSO environment using tools such as SimpleSamlPHP and Zend Framework. He also looks at popular technologies such as OpenID and OAuth. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder and Ivo Jansch, CEO Egeniq (56 min) March 31, 2011 |
| Zend Framework 2 Patterns Zend Framework 1 grew organically. An effort behind version 2.0 was to identify common themes and patterns, and to unify these in order to provide common low-level patterns to use everywhere. This webinar will serve as an overview of these patterns, identifying them, and discussing the interfaces involved and the concrete use cases we plan to ship in ZF2. Presenter – Matthew Weier O'Phinney (66 min) March 30, 2011 |
| Using Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Builds Abstract: Jenkins, the successor of Hudson, can be used to continuously build and deploy your code and database upgrades. Continuous builds can be used to have snapshots of a work in progress for your customer to review for example. It can be used for applying code quality checks of course and even for ad-hoc deployment. In this webinar we will have a closer look at how Jenkins can be installed and configured to work with tools like Phing, Zend Tool, Symfony tasks and shell scripts, using one or more example projects. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder from Zend and Jonas Marien from King Foo bvba (57 min) March 29, 2011 |
| The First 5 Steps to Get Started with PHP on IBM i (IBM i Webinar Series Part 2) This webinar is part 2 in a series of webinars about PHP and IBM i. In this presentation, Mike Pavlak will focus on the five steps you need to build your first PHP application on IBM i. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (62 min) March 23, 2011 |
| Big Data & the LAMP Stack: How to Boost Performance As the LAMP stack serves as the technology basis for many websites and analytic systems, LAMP users begin to see drops in performance with little warning as the amount of data generated increases– and then try to compensate by fine-tuning databases, upgrading hardware, expanding storage systems, and archiving old data. Couple this performance degradation with inefficient monitoring tools and companies face daunting data challenges. What if you could achieve much higher analytic performance and superior monitoring with no database tuning and much less hardware? In this webinar, Infobright and Zend will discuss two products that seamlessly integrate with the LAMP stack to deliver dramatic improvements in performance before and after the integration. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder, Susan Palumbo, Jeff Kibler (53 min) March 22, 2011 |
| Your First Zend Framework Project on IBM i Zend Framework (ZF) provides a free, powerful structure for PHP Applications on IBM i. Developers love ZF's flexibility, but that flexibilty sometimes leaves first-time ZF users not knowing where to begin. Fortunately, it's not difficult after you've seen how it's done. This presentation will go step by step through creating a basic PHP application with ZF. This webinar will include: * How to download ZF or find it on IBM i * How to automatically generate ZF's directory structure * How to configure the application to access db2 and display database results. Presenter – Mike Pavlak and Alan Seiden (60 min) March 9, 2011 |
| Master your IDE - 10 Tips to improve Zend Studio Performance (part 1 & 2) There’s always room for improvement. This also goes for the leading PHP IDE. Though Zend Studio 8 already provides a significant speed advantage, there there can still be some fine-tuning adjustments. Join us in two Zend Studio performance webinars and see 10 tips to increase the speed. Every developer works 8 hours a day with his favorite IDE, so it’s very important to understand, how to leverage the features and most notably: what not to do. Performance problems are discussed and solutions shown based on a sample project. True to the maxim: You have to master your IDE! Presenter – Eric Ritchie (57 min) March 3, 2011 & (62 min) March 17, 2011 |
| Zend Framework - Getting To Grips Zend Framework appears to be a gargantuan beast to the outsider looking in. Finding where to start and picking up the basic principles can be a real headache and a time consuming business for those new to the framework. In this session Ryan Mauger, Lead Developer for Lupimedia, is going to break down that learning curve, with a few simple principles to get you started knowing where to look, so you can progress under your own steam with greater ease. Presenters – Kevin Schroeder & Ryan Mauger (56 min) March 10, 2011 Este webinar está disponible también en español - Aqui están las diapositivas. |
| Using PHP 5.3 Namespaces for Fame and Fortune PHP 5.3 introduced the concept of namespaces into the PHP language. Despite the (continuous) bikeshedding over the namespace separator, the feature is getting rapid adoption. In this webinar, Matthew Weier O'Phinney will look at the basics of using namespaces, some strategies for organizing your code to use namespaces effectively, and some tips and tricks for using namespaced and non-namespaced code together. Presenters – Matthew Weier O'Phinney March 2 2011 |
| Top 5 Reasons To Use PHP On IBM i This is the first in a series of webinars that answers the question “Why PHP on IBM i”. The webinar will focus on why and how PHP can help modernize your legacy app on IBM i. Presenter – Mike Pavlak (62 min) Feb 23 2011 |
| Would you like docs with that? For most developers, documentation is a necessary evil they'd rather skip. But really, is documentation that evil? Or is it actually useful? This presentation with show the types of (technical) documentation that can be written (often used ones such as functional and technical design, but also some unexpected ones such as commit messages), the reasons for documenting, and the tools that you can use to ease the documenting task. Presenters – Kevin Schroeder and Stefan Koopmanschap (58 min) Feb 17 2011 |
| Application Development for the Cloud The cloud is an evolutionary step forward from previous computing styles. Development for the cloud will be, as well. In addition to a programming language, developers will be concerned with using the most effective platform for development and deployment. How do you develop for a target cloud destination? How do you target one workload for multiple clouds? What workloads should be sent to the cloud? Presenter – InformationWeek Editor-At-Large and author Charles Babcock, and Zend Technologies CEO and Co-founder Andi Gutmans (63 min) Feb 3 2011 |
| Zend Framework v1 + Doctrine v2 Zend Framework (version 1) is an enterprise grade, full stack MVC framework and component library. Doctrine (version 2) is an enterprise grade, ORM (object-relational mapping) framework for PHP 5.3. In this webinar, the ZF and Doctrine teams join forces to demonstrate how best to integrate these two frameworks and produce a ZF powered MVC application where in which the "M" is powered by Doctrine2. Familiarity of PHP 5.3 features is suggested. Presenter – Ralph Schindler, Jonathan Wage and Guilherme Blanco (87min) Dec 15 2010 |
| Develop, Run and Scale PHP Applications in the Cloud Beyond the hype, cloud computing presents a real opportunity to do things better and cheaper. However, if you're one of those considering testing or deploying your PHP applications on the cloud, there are various issued you may need to address. Join Kevin Schroeder, Zend Technology Evangelist, for an introduction of the new Zend PHP Cloud Application Platform, which helps develop, run and scale business-critical PHP applications in the cloud. Presenter – Kevin Schroeder (71 min) Dec 13 2010 |
| Search in the Magento shop - better with Zend_Search_Lucene Search in a Magento shop is not a problem, as long as you stick with the product pages. But Magento is not only used for product or category pages, but for static content pages as well. For the MySQL-Like based Magento search that's a dead end. You know this problem and would like to solve it? Join Zend and NetResearch in this joint webinar and learn about the open source search module Zend_Search_Lucene, which provides an advanced search also within the static content. Presenters - Kevin Schroeder and Stephan Hoyer, Magento Agency Netresearch ![]() |
| How to Increase Your Development Efficiencies with Zend Studio In 45 minutes, learn how to create efficiency gains up to 22% in your project development cycle. Join Bill Salvucci, CEI America's Open Source Thought Leader, for an insightful online seminar and discussion on using Zend Studio within CEI’s Global Agile Software Development process. Hear Bill discuss key strategies for development processes as they relate to the targeted areas for improvement. Presenters - Bill Salvucci and Joshua Solomin (45 min) Oct 25 2010 |
| SimpleCloud Storage APIs-Write Once, Deploy on Any Cloud This webinar covers the Simple Cloud API's Storage Service interface, showing you how to write applications that work with multiple vendors. We'll cover the basics of storing and retrieving files as well as how to copy, move, rename and delete items. We'll also look at how to work with the metadata each cloud vendor associates with items stored in its system. Presenters - Kevin Schroeder, Doug Tidwell (54 min) Oct 25 2010 |
| Customer Voices: concrete5 On Building An Enterprise-Class Application Using Zend Framework concrete5 is an open-source content management system (CMS) built in PHP on top of Zend Framework. Attend this webinar to see how using Zend Framework enabled concrete5 to solve real-world problems for a large and diverse customer base. Andrew Embler, CTO of concrete5, will talk about how they leveraged Zend Framework’s structure and tools to build an enterprise-class CMS. Presenters - Andrew Embler, Joshua Solomin (37 min) Sep 27 2010 |
| Building a Flex-based CRUD application using Zend Framework Come see how to seamlessly integrate Flex and PHP using Zend Framework. You'll see how to set up a basic application that lets you call PHP methods right from your Flex application and ways to test and optimize the connection between the two languages. You'll also see the powerful features that Flex can add to a PHP backend. Presenters - Kevin Schroeder ( 58 min) Sep 16 2010 |




















Este webinar está 