Appcelerator was a sponsor at ZendCon 08 this year but obviously they were much more as well. They created a series of videos from interviews they shot while there.

Ben Ramsey, Software Architect at Schematic and PHP community leader, and Keith Casey, founder of CaseySoftware, held an UnCon session at ZendCon this year to discuss PHP user groups. Click on in and have a listen. See how you can

Unless you live under a rock or code in Ruby, you know that last week, php|architect rebooted itself. They now have a new look, new options and a concern for the environment not usually seen in the publishing industry.

Refcardz is a cool project by my friends over at dzone.com and last week it just got a lot cooler because they released their first PHP RefCard.

Adobe's technical evangelism team is packing up the bus and hitting the road to show PHP User Groups how cool Flex and PHP can be when used together.

I have run into a few situations recently that made me think about when and why I would fire a contracting organization (assuming they did not resolve the issue immediately). Obviously there are exceptions, so use some common sense. But

PHP events are ramping up in Vancouver, BC. This includes a new meet-up group, workshops, and more... If you are nearby, join in the fun, and Let's PUMP UP THE PHP VOLUME in BC!

phpNW, a regional conference for readers in the Northwest England, posted it's schedule last week. From the look of it, there is a great mix of the names you normally see at PHP conferences and local talent.

Ok, ZendCon is over and I'm back to surfing for things you will find interesting. Two articles posted that I didn't cover but feel they are content rich enough to mention are "Create a productivity package with the Zend Framework

Here they are, the slides from ZendCon 08! (or at least all the ones I've been able to collect so far) Whether you were able to attend and need slides for a refresher or you weren't able to make it

Wow, what a week ZendCon 08 was! I know a conference was good when I am just too tired to move after it. Last Friday after it was all over, I spent most of the day recuperating. It was so

Scaling. The Final Frontier. Or is it? All too often scaling is left until the day it is needed causing havoc to a business model that was ready to succeed. There is nothing like the sound of crushed hopes and

I am very excited to announce that Zend Studio for Eclipse 6.1 has been released, and would like to share with you some of its new features.

Today started Day 0 of the fourth annual ZendCon. While I plan to provide coverage of each day, this one is about the Unconference.Just after lunchtime today, I posted the semi-final Unconference schedule in the main hall. We have conference

My good friend Gerrit "Remi" te Sligte wrote me yesterday to remind me that phpGG (The newly formed Dutch PHP group) has their next meeting soon.

This tutorial will set you through using Zend_Tool to jump-start development on your next ZF MVC application. Zend_Tool is both RAD tools as well as a framework for exposing your own set of tooling needs to the Zend_Tool user interface.

Christoph Dorn has released an interesting tutorial over on his blog about how to use the new Zenf Framework/FirePHP integration.

That right, fire up those down-loaders and grab your headlamp and pick-axe. There's fresh code to be had for the taking!

It's not often that I review a book that is a year old for several reasons. The main reason is that technology changes so fast. In this day and age a book 12 months old usually contains out dated information.

My good friend Lorna Mitchell (programmer extraordinaire at Ibuildings) announced yesterday the Call for Papers for PHP Northwest '08 which takes place on 22nd November 2008 in Manchester, United Kingdom.