Zend Newsletter
March 2007

 NEWS: 

• Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2007 -  Call for Papers
• Zend 2.0 Gets Certified
• Zend Goes Straight to the PHP Core
• Reminder – Keep Your APPS Healthy

WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK!

• Take three minutes and participate in our PHP and Java Survey

OFFER: 

• “March Special” featuring “The Complete Solution to all Your PHP Development Needs”

 EVENTS: 

• WEBINAR (Upcoming) – “Enterprise Enable Your PHP Applications”
• MySQL Conference, April 23-26, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
• COMMON 2007 Annual Conference & Expo, April 29-May 3, 2007, Anaheim, CA
• MIX07, April 30-May 2, Las Vegas, Nevada
• PHP | Tek 2007, May 15-18, 2007, Chicago, IL
• Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2007, October 8-11, Burlingame, California
• WEBINAR (Recorded) – “Getting the Most From Your Opcode Cache”

PRODUCTS: 

• Zend Platform – Update
• Zend Framework – Beta Release

ZEND SERVICES

• New Security Training

TIPS AND TRICKS FROM THE ZEND DEVZONE: 

• The Definitive Guide to symfony – Sample Chapter
• Avoiding XSS Security Attacks to Sites that use HTML Editors
• PHP Security Tip #13

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NEWS: 

1.         Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2007 – Call for Papers 

Mark Your Calendars! The Zend/PHP Conference and Expo will be held from October 8-11 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California.  This year’s conference will again be the best ever.  The Call for Papers is Now Open!

Do you have a topic that is hot and perfect to present at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2007?  Please click here to submit: Zend Conference 2007

2.         Zend 2.0 Gets Certified

Discover what Infoworld’s Matt Assay has to say about Zend, open source, PHP and Zend Core 2.0. Check it out in Matt’s blog: Matt Assay at Infoworld

3.         Zend Goes Straight to the PHP Core  

Sean Michael Kerner chimes in with his comments and opinion about Zend’s latest Core release.  Check it out in an InternetNews.com story: InternetNews talks about Zend Core

4.         Reminder - Are Your PHP Applications Healthy?

Make sure your PHP applications run at peak performance, without suffering from bugs or security problems.  Your application’s health is much like taking care of your physical health. With a small amount of routine care and maintenance you can avoid many issues that may become serious if neglected.

For more information: Product Updates

WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK

We would appreciate it if you would participate in our brief survey which asks your opinions on the integration of PHP with Java.  One person who completes a survey will win an iPod Nano from Zend.  

Click here to begin your survey: PHP and Java Survey

MARCH SPECIAL OFFER: 

1.       The Complete Solution to ALL Your PHP Development Needs: 

Maximize your PHP development cycle with the tight integration of Zend Studio Professional and Zend Guard.

and
            Zend Guard – Zend Guard

Use the leading PHP IDE to develop bug free applications, then seamlessly encode and obfuscate your applications for worry free distribution.  Buy BOTH Zend Studio Professional and Zend Guard for only $799 (save $495!) 

Check out the Zend Store for more details: Studio and Guard Bundle

EVENTS: 

1.       WEBINAR (Upcoming) – “Enterprise Enable Your PHP Applications” – Register Today

This Zend Demo and Webinar is for anyone, particularly managers, responsible for the operations of his/her organization’s business-critical PHP applications.  Zend’s Ed Kietlinski will show you how Zend’s enterprise PHP solutions can help address key production challenges with your application’s performance, scalability, reliability, and integration.  No one wants downtime or resources allocated because of unresponsive applications, a bad user experience, and unreliable application issues. These are hard to diagnose, even harder to reproduce and correct.  Learn how the most advanced PHP shops are tackling these issues quickly ensuring that businesses are running at peak performance. 

To register for the Demo at 9:00AM California, 12:00PM New York Time please goto: Demo Time Slot #1

To register for the Demo at 5:00PM California, 8:00PM New York Time please goto: Demo Time Slot #2

2.       MySQL Conference, April 23-26, 2007, Santa Clara, CA

3.       COMMON 2007 Annual Conference & Expo, April 29 – May 3, 2007, Anaheim, CA

At this IBM System i event of the year, experts from around the world deliver education on leading-edge System i technologies – IBM (Erwin Earley) and Zend (Ed Kietlinski) will jointly present an all-day workshop that will take a comprehensive look at the essential elements of PHP 5. The workshop will prepare attendees to use tools to create scripts that are secure, efficient and reliable.  For more information: Ed Kietlinski at Common

Join Zend Co-Founder Andi Gutmans at MIX07 in Las Vegas.  MIX is Microsoft’s conference for Web designers, developers and decision-makers who make their living at the forefront of the consumer Web. Join the conversation with Microsoft and others on how to harness the latest technologies, unlock new revenue opportunities, reduce development costs and improve customer experience. MIX is for cutting-edge Web professionals designing and building next-generation experiences.  

5.       PHP|Tek 2007, May 15-18, 2007, Chicago, IL 

Meet up with Cal Evans from the Zend DevZone who will be covering the event.  

6.       ZEND PHP CONFERENCE & EXPO, October 8-11, Burlingame, CA

This year’s Zend/PHP Conference and Expo will be held October 8-11 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport - Burlingame, California.  The Hyatt is minutes away from the San Francisco International Airport and a short BART ride away from San Francisco.  Check out the Call for Papers information above and submit your best today. To find out more information go to: Zend Conference 2007 Home Page.

7.        WEBINAR - Getting the Most from Your Opcode Cache – Available Now 

Are you a PHP developer interested in improving the performance of your applications?  Do you want a better understanding of how bytecode caching in PHP works?  Check out this Zend Webinar which will show you how to use bytecode caching in the most efficient manner and what issues could arise when using it. 

Stas Malyshev , Zend’s own PHP internals developer, presents a webinar on optimizing your use of PHP Opcode caching software.

Click here: Opcode Cache Webinar

PRODUCTS:

1.       Zend Platform 3.0.2 – UPDATE AVAILABLE NOW 

Zend Platform 3.0 delivers a comprehensive feature-set geared towards facilitating enterprise PHP production environments. Zend Platform 3.0 comes in three configurations - PS, IS and ES - focusing on performance, integration and scalability respectively. The top-of-the-line Zend Platform ES allows PHP Applications to easily scale to multiple server clusters. It offers support for multi-machine session clustering, job queues, high availability and graceful server shutdown, all with an easy to use web-based management console. 

3.0.2 Update Includes:

·        Support for Mac OS X PowerPC & Intel

·        Support for Windows x86 XP, 2003 and Vista

·        Support for IIS 7

Now Available for Windows and Mac Platform:

For more information about Zend Platform: Zend Platform
 

2.       Zend Framework Beta Release      

Zend Framework 0.9 is the first Beta Release marking a new milestone for the Framework project. We are establishing the base feature set for Zend Framework 1.0, and are adopting a commitment to backward-compatibility and interface stability.

Framework is not complete.  Great new features will be added.  For the current feature set we target backward-compatibility going forward, so that applications that use the Framework are reliable, and benefit from the high quality of this class library.

For more information and to see the release highlights go to: Zend Framework