Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of version
1.9.0!

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Kudos and thanks go out to the huge number of community contributors who helped
make this release possible. This release has been almost entirely community
driven, with the Zend team contributing primarily feature additions to existing
components and working on maintenance of the project. If you submitted an
issue report, a documentation improvement, a patch, a documentation
translation, or a component, let it be known that you helped make
this release what it is!

Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Eddo Rotman giving his talk: “Elegant Ways of Handling PHP Errors and Exceptions”

One more PHP Abstract coming at you! In this episode I took Ed Finkler of Funkatron Productions aside while at php|tek in Chicago and got to talk with him briefly about his work on Spaz, one of the original twitter clients.

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of the first
Release Candidate for 1.9.0:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Note that because these packages are not stable, they will not be found on
the zend.com CDN; please scroll to the bottom of the above page to find
links to this release.

Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Brian DeShong giving his talk: “Rickroll To Go With PHP , WURFL , and Other Open Source Tools”

The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of a
beta release of version 1.9.0:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Note that because these packages are not stable, they will not be
found on the zend.com CDN; please scroll to the bottom of the above page to
find links to this release.

It’s about time for some more PHP Abstract! In this episode I sit around a table with Keith Casey and Cal Evans as we ramble on a bit discussing the future of PHP (including PHP 5.3 and PHP 6) as well as talking about the framework standards group that has been formed. This was recorded while at php|tek in Chicago, before PHP 5.3 was released.

With their promise of massive scalability and high availability, Amazon Web Services (AWS) are getting a lot of attention from PHP developers. In particular, EC2 can run fully optimized and configured PHP environments that can be used to test and deploy applications without the headaches of hardware provisioning and management.

But developers have been left with the chore of building and finely tuning these PHP images. No more! Zend has built a full-featured Zend Server CE Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that can be spun up and ready to do your bidding within minutes.

In this article, I’ll show how easy it is to find and launch this AMI.

Cal Evans has been working with a new feature included in the recent PHP 5.3 release for a project he’s been working on – phar .

The guys over at Hack a day found this computer hardware poster of pretty much all the connectors in use by the industry today.  Very useful especially for someone like me who really hasn’t been a hardware geek for quite some time.

You can also buy the print as a full-sized poster.