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Recent Webinars

Confessions from an RPG developer: Why use Zend Framework?
Developers may wonder if mastering a framework is worth the learning curve. This webinar will review the basics and reasons why the effort will be repaid. Learn how to build applications that are well-architected, flexible, and maintainable from an i5 perspective. Code examples will be reviewed of how to easily connect to DB2, Adobe AMF, and other i5 specific ZF code.

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Set up a complete PHP environment in minutes
You’ve probably heard about the new Zend Server native installers that are getting rave reviews from our customers. This brief webinar will provide an online demonstration showcasing these new technologies. It will show Linux installation using RPM repositories to install in Apache and Windows installation with MSI into IIS. At the end we will take general Q&A with members of the Zend Server product team.

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Advanced Management for PHP for i5
Platform for i5 is Zend's suite for PHP optimization, root cause analysis, and application management. Led by i5 PHP expert Mike Pavlak, this session will showcase how Zend Platform improves PHP application performance, manageability, reliability, integration and scalability. There will be a demonstration addressing the common business drivers that you expect from enterprise grade PHP applications. Learn how Zend Platform for i5 helps to make your PHP applications and business enterprise ready.

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How to increase application performance using caching
The three most effective ways to boost your PHP application performance are caching, caching and caching. Join this information-packed webinar, led by Shahar Evron, to learn how to apply the right caching method for your application. Using a live demonstration, Shahar will walk you through the actual steps of optimizing performance of an open-source PHP application using Zend Server.

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Fortune 50 company realizes 30% increase in developer productivity.
In this Webinar you will hear how companies, from Fortune 50 to growth up-starts are achieving significant gains in productivity across their IT with PHP--allowing them to do more with less. Reducing PHP maintenance tasks and cutting time spent on solving application errors, are some of the strategies that helped these companies increase developer productivity by as much as 30% and freed their developers to do what they do best – deliver quality code to meet business objectives.

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How RPG Programmers can Leverage Arrays
This webinar will show you how take advantage of one of the most powerful tools within PHP. As RPG has only recently gotten into multi-dimensional arrays, PHP has been exploiting the concept for years. Topics to be covered in detail will include a review of most of the 70+ array functions, in depth use of the FOREACH function and a several side by side examples comparing RPG arrays to PHP arrays.

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Unveiling Zend Server
Zend Server is Zend's next generation PHP Web Application Server - a complete solution for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security.
During this webinar you will learn how to deploy a complete PHP stack  in minutes, pin-point, diagnose and resolve application problems quickly, and achieve significant performance gains for you PHP applications.

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Getting Started with PHP for i5 shops
This introductory webcast will discuss the steps necessary to install Zend Core to immediately enable PHP development on any IBM i running V5R3 or better. The Zend Stack will be reviewed including Zend Core, Zend Studio for Eclipse i5 Edition and Zend Platform. Basic PHP script creation and operation through the stack will be discussed. Additional concepts include the debugger, an overview of the PASE, general troubleshooting and basic script creation and operation through the Zend Stack.

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A "Window" into Zend PHP Tools

Ed Kietlinski, Solution Consultant at Zend, will talk about the improved performance, reliability and stability of running PHP on Windows Servers that is a result of the Zend/Microsoft partnership.
Learn how to quickly install and easily maintain the PHP stack on Windows. Get started with Zend Studio IDE on Windows with advanced support of root cause analysis and troubleshooting a MS SQL Server database example. Run popular open source PHP applications in Windows and how to setup Enterprise Ready production environments.

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Scaling a PHP Application
With the emergence of so many startups choosing open source solutions, it is a must for web applications to be able to handle traffic surges, and for the infrastructure hosting them to be scalable. This presentation focuses on PHP software design techniques, and tools and software that help in building a high throughput, highly available system, using tools like Zend platform.
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Presenter: Maurice Kherlakian, Bell Canada

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Introduction to Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.0
Fully compliant with Eclipse standards, the new PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.0 release enables developers to leverage a wide variety of Eclipse projects, such as Web Tools Project (WTP) and Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK), for faster and easier PHP development. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the code editing capabilities needed to get started with developing PHP applications.

Roy Ganor, Zend Studio Project Leader at Zend, will demonstrate PDT 2.0's new features including creating a new project, source editing, code assist, type hierarchy, mark occurrences, PHP search and more.

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Zend Certification
Zend Certified Engineers are the most sought after PHP developers and with the expanded portfolio that now includes the Zend Framework Certification Exam, becoming a Zend Certified Engineer gives you a clear advantage. Find out about why you would want to take the exam, topics covered on each exam and the benefits the credential provides!

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PHP for Dynamic Web Application Development
As a key component of the Open Source LAMP stack, PHP is the fastest growing web development languages for developing interactive and dynamic web applications that meet the demands of the enterprise. Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is emerging as the preferred PHP programmer’s toolkit for designing Web applications with best practices. It is based on extreme simplicity, the latest Web 2.0 features, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb. This session will provide a brief overview of PHP, discuss the key drivers influencing the growth and success of PHP in supporting business critical web applications, and what Zend Technologies is doing to drive best practices and quality web applications within the PHP community and in support of commercial users. Web development design topics will include MVC, Search, Data Access, Web Services, Filter, Authentication, Cache, and more.

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i5 - Application Lifecycle Management for the Enterprise
Are you using PHP for Web application projects on the IBM i?   Are compliance and best practices important to you?  Then come to a Webinar where Aldon and Zend team up to bring you the industry-preferred approach to developing, managing and tracking Web applications on the IBM i.

Whether you are an IBM i user or not, and PHP is on your development radar, you need to start thinking about process, automation and change management for your Web application projects. Tune in for a webcast where the folks from Aldon and Zend team up to bring you the latest in Application Lifecycle Management for Web Applications on the IBM i. 

Industry speakers Mike Pavlak and Modi Ronen will provide tips and tricks to help you address today’s challenges --from data tracking and compliance to team management.  During this web cast and demo you will get a first-hand look at how the latest features from Aldon and Zend Studio for Eclipse provide a complete solution for managing your PHP application code across the entire application life cycle.  So if you care about what is important to compliance auditors, or you just want to ensure you are ITIL compliant, register today and find out how to quickly close the compliance-gap through simple code management.

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RIA with Flex and Zend Framework
Learn the basics of using Adobe Flex with the Zend Framework to create Rich Internet Application. In this eSeminar, follow along as we step you through building a simple application, allowing you to start to use Zend to build your next Flex and PHP based applications.

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Give Your IBM iSeries an Extreme Makeover with Zend and PHP!
The PHP open source web development language, once considered only a hobbyist language, has moved into the mainstream and is being adopted broadly by enterprise customers and the IBM i community. This session discusses the value of PHP in the enterprise and how midrange shops can leverage the power of PHP and IBM Power Systems to help their own enterprises flourish in ways that had not been considered in the past.

We will explore how PHP is implemented, where PHP is used and what the support model is from both corporate America and the community.
The speaker for this webinar is Mike Pavlak, who has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. Mike has developed applications using RPG, CL and PHP and for the last several years has managed IT development and operations for Tripp Lite.
Recently, Mike joined Zend as a Solutions Consultant.

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Using PHP and System i to Improve Vendor Productivity
Communicating with your suppliers can be easier, and best of all it can save you time and money. Join NSC, Inc. along with Zend Technologies to learn this exciting new way of improving productivity. Including keynote speakers Tim Nies and Eric Nies who have years of experience in software development and PHP, to show you how to improve your vendor productivity today. This webinar will also be comprised of a compelling real-life account from a manufacturing company demonstrating how this process has changed the way they communicate with their suppliers.  A question and answer session will follow the webinar.
Presented by  Tim Nies and Eric Nies, NSC Inc.

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Zend and Kargo Present: Using PHP to Build a Mobile Internet Platform
If you’ve ever hunted ghosts along with the television show Most Haunted, texted in a New Year’s Eve marriage proposal on the Travel Channel, received a critical pop culture alert, or voted for the one you thought “Wore It Best” in US Weekly then you probably have already used Kargo’s technology. Using its technology platform, Kargo assists brands and content owners in designing, developing and delivering tailored mobile products for the marketplace rapidly and easily.

Kargo’s always-on mobile messaging architecture and mobile internet platform was built using PHP 5 and Zend Framework, the leading open-source PHP application framework. Learn how they use PHP to deliver rich mobile messaging and browser experiences across a broad range of handsets and carriers.
Presented by  Florian Hoenig, Kargo

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Get "Rich" Quick : Building Ajax-based RIAs with the Zend Framework and Appcelerator
One of the more daunting challenges of building rich internet applications is the overwhelming amount of JavaScript necessary to create truly compelling user experiences. By leveraging the message-oriented architecture of Appcelerator with Zend Framework, you can build rich internet applications with 90% less code. An overview of the open-source Appcelerator Platform will be presented and a sample application will be constructed live using Appcelerator and Zend Framework.
Presented by  Matthew Quinlan & Martin Robinson, Appcelerator

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Rich UIs and easy AJAX with Dojo and Zend Framework
This past spring, the Zend Framework team announced a partnership with Dojo toolkit to provide out-of-the-box support for Rich Internet Applications. The 1.6.0 release of Zend Framework provides the first steps in this partnership: Zend Framework now ships the Dojo Toolkit distribution, and provides several components for utilizing Dojo's widget layer, Dijit; a JSON-RPC server implementation; support for creating dojo.data envelopes for XmlHttpRequest payloads; and a view helper for setting up the Dojo environment for your application.

In this webinar, we will explore some of this functionality to demonstrate how you can use Zend Framework and Dojo to create beautiful user interfaces with native remoting capabilities.
Presented by Matthew Weier O’phinney, Software Architect

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What's New in Zend Framework 1.6
Watch this presentation to hear the entire Zend Framework team talk about what to expect from Zend Framework 1.6, soon to be released.
Presented by Wil Sinclair, Development Manager, Matthew Weier O’phinney, Software Architect, Alexander Veremyev, Software Engineer and Ralph Schindler, Software Engineer.

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Platform for i5/OS - What i5 shops need to know
As the Director of IT at Trippelite I never considered researching Platform for i5/OS. Knowing what I NOW do Platform would have increased the productivity of my developers, shortened the time to production of PHP apps, and eased the transition to PHP from RPG. In this presentation I will guide you through the functionality that most leverages the i5 shop’s investments in people and hardware.
Presented by Mike Pavlak, Sales Engineer for Zend Technologies.

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PHP Security Rerun
Tune in to hear (and watch)  PHP Expert Jesse Lesperance's Webinar on PHP Security.

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PHP Security
Security is not just important when you are doing financial transactions - an insecure Web site can be used by others for malicious purposes to launch attacks against other Web sites. There are a few must-knows for anyone who ventures out into the world of PHP Web development. In this webinar, Zend's Kevin Schroeder will focus on the absolute necessities when doing secure Web development.

Presented by: Kevin Schroeder, Zend Technologies

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