Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Zend employees have been busy submitting to Call for Papers at various tech/PHP conferences and will be presenting talks around the world. Here is a list of who will be where.

Zend Platform on IBM I provides many benefits including monitoring and advanced debugging. One of the many key features of Zend Platform is caching. In a nutshell, Zend Platform caches PHP scripts and content in a byte-code format to improve performance. This is an extremely useful feature, especially when you start exploring frameworks like Zend Framework or Cake. Zend Platform has many dials and controls which affect caching on the IBM i. We are going to explore how a few of them work and shed some light on their purpose.

Currently reading Design Patterns by Erich Gamma (Author), Richard Helm (Author), Ralph Johnson (Author), John M. Vlissides (Author) (aka the Gang of Four).

Its amazing coming back and reading this book again after so many years.  I remember the first time I read this in 2002 having alot of this gloss over my head and now many of these design patterns are second nature – I couldn’t think of designing any type of OO software without these patterns.

Zend has opened a public beta of its new all-in-one web development stack, Zend Server, for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Anyone can download it, try it out, and give feedback. Two versions of this exist, Zend Server CE (which will always be free), and the full Zend Server, which after the beta will be commercial.
We welcome as much feedback as possible to make this the best package it can be.

Jani’s series on Zend Framework’s Zend_Acl continues this week. In this installment he discusses how to deal with dynamic ACLs that you would store in a database and modify as needed.

Lorenzo Alberton has written a great tip for people who are wanting to use Zend Framework under a shared hosting environment where they can’t change their document root to work properly.

Zend Framework 1.7.5 has been released to the public. Besides the usual bevvy of small enhancements, this release also includes a rather important (and controversial) security fix. Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Software Architect for Zend Framework discusses it on his blog.

I’ll let the title of this post sink in for a second. Yes, someone, Mark Karpeles in fact, has written a fully functional DNS daemon in PHP. Just another way to prove that yes, you can do anything in PHP.

My roommate asked me to make a site for him to showcase his Flickr images.  I figured out how to embed a Flickr slideshow into his site…he was happy.  Below is a sample:

I wonder if something like this could be used for Search & Rescue?  I want to see how this works underwater: