Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

New on his blog today Wenbert Del Rosario has posted a tutorial about getting the Zend_Navigation helper to work in your application and correctly handle making/updating breadcrumbs as you navigate around the site.

The last two days of php|tek were so packed full and sessions, meetings, and community, that I was unable to report on them until now, the week afterwards.

The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.8.2 release. This release is the second maintenance release in the 1.8
series. Fixes for this release focus on Zend_Db and autoloading
improvements. In all, over 50 issues were closed for the release.

You may download it from the
Zend Framework
site .

On the symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted about the new “getting started” tutorial that’s been posted for the symfony 1.2 release of the framework.

High Performance MySQL

Well after my last book, I’m now reading High Performance MySQL.

My new job now has me working in a much larger server farm and so now instead of handling 10,000 users I’m handling many more times that.  This book will build on my background and make my queries work better in a distributed environment.

The second full day of PHP |tek, was also the first day of the main conference. It kicked off with a wonderful keynote, and then was jam packed with sessions full of information. Usually leaving one to have a hard decision as to which talk to see. The evening was marked by a lightning round of Pecha Kucha talks on random, entertaining, topics.

Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Nowadays if you want to connect external systems, you probably want or have to use web services. What I will discuss here is how to get your own SOAP web service up in minutes.

On PHPBuilder.com there’s a new installment in their “ABCs of PHP” series posted – a look at working with regular expressions.

I’m attending and presenting at PHP |tek this year, and will be providing daily summaries of the information and activities of the day. Day 1, May 19th, is the Tutorial Day

Vikram Vaswani has written an article for IIS .net, describing how one can configure and setup a production web server on Windows using IIS and Zend Server. The tutorial takes you from installing Zend Server, writing a basic application, and setting up both SQL Server as well as MySQL. It then wraps up by showing how Zend Server Cache can be used to increase the performance of the application without changing any code.