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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 41: Zend Framework 1.8

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:46:10 -0700

Episode 041: "Zend Framework 1.8"

Guest:: Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Topic:: Zend Framework 1.8
Release Date:: 5/6/2009

Welcome to PHP Abstract: The Podcast for PHP Developers, by PHP Developers

In this episode I interview Matthew Weier O'Phinney, recently promoted to Project Lead of Zend Framework for Zend Technologies, to find out about all the new features in Zend Framework 1.8. He talks about Zend_Tool, Zend_Application, and much more.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 40: Data Importing

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:06:49 -0700

Episode 40: Data Importing

Special Guest: Lorna Mitchell
Release Date: 05/15/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today our special guest is Lorna Mitchell. Lorna is a Developer at Ibuildings in the UK, and is based in Leeds in the North of England. She is a Zend Certified Engineer and the senior member for phpwomen.org in Europe.

Today, Lorna will be talking to us about Data Importing

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 39: Interview with Derick Rethans

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:34:22 -0700

Episode 39: Interview With Derick Rethans

Special Guest: Derick Rethans
Release Date: 05/08/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today I'm going to talk to Derick Rethans. Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to PHP, including the mcrypt, Date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as project leader for the eZ components project for eZ systems A.S. In his spare time he likes to work on Xdebug, watch movies, travel and practise photography.

Derick and I will be discussing Xdebug.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 38: Interview with Zak Greant

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:57:36 -0700

Episode 38: Interview With Zak Greant

Special Guest: Zak Greant
Release Date: 04/24/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today I'm going to talk to Zak Greant. Zak's web page tells us: Zak Greant's love of Free Software and Open Source is turning him into a penguin. When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he passes the time running the Foo Associates strategic consultancy and by working with various Free Software and Open Source projects and companies.

Zak and I will be talking about copyright and his talk "Age of Literate Machines".

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 37: Zend Framework 1.5

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:15:12 -0700

Episode 37: Zend Framework 1.5 Release

Special Guests: Wil Sinclair and Brad Cottel
Release Date: 04/03/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today we are going to talk to Wil Sinclair and Brad Cottel. Wil is the manager of the Advanced Technologies Group at Zend. Brad is evangelist for Zend Framework and other open-source projects and products at Zend.

We will be talking about the newly released Zend Framework 1.5.

Show Notes for Episode 37

Zend Framework

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 36: An Interview with Harold Goldberg

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:45:07 -0700

Episode 36: An Interview with Harold Goldberg

Special Guests: Harold Goldberg
Release Date: 03/20/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today it is my privledge to present an interview with Harold Goldberg, the CEO of Zend Technologies.

Harold brings more than 20 years experience in senior marketing, strategy and sales roles at top-tier organizations to Zend.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 35: An Advanced Look at APIs

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:21:44 -0800

Episode 35: An Advanced Look at APIs

Special Guests: Davey Shafik
Release Date: 02/21/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Davey Shafik. Davey Shafik is a full time developer with 10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. He is an author of both books and magazines and no stranger to the regular listeners of PHP Abstract.

Today, Davey is going to talk to take an advanced look at APIs.

Show Notes for Episode 35

Davey's Blog

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 34: Streams Abstraction

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:16:42 -0800

Episode 34: Streams Abstraction

Special Guests: Manuel Lemos
Release Date: 01/31/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Manuel Lemos of phpclasses.org Manuel is from Portugal and currently lives in Brazil where he works full-time on PHPClasses.org that he created in 1999.

Today, Maunel is going to talk to us about Streams Abstraction.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 33: Book Review: PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:18:45 -0800

Episode 33: Book Review: PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects

Special Guests: Matthew Turland
Release Date: 01/17/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Matthew Turland (Elazar to those of you who hang out on the #phpc channel on irc.freenode.net) Matt has been building PHP applications since 2002. He joined the ranks of PHP-Oracle developers in 2006 when he became a programmer for METHODS Technology Solutions. He is a regular on the PHP Community channel of the Freenode IRC network. He regularly shares his experience on his blog, iShouldBeCoding.com.

Today, Matt is going to review PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects from Packt Publishing.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 32: Introduction to symfony

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:51:02 -0800

Episode 32: Introduction to the symfony framework.

Special Guests: Stefan Koopmanschap
Release Date: 01/17/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Stefan Koopmanschap. Stefan is web application developer and professional services consultant for Ibuildings.nl. He is the initiator of the SymfonyCamp event in 2007, and is also trying to promote symfony in The Netherlands with his local website symfony-framework.nl. His own website can be found at www.leftontheweb.com

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 31: Book Review of Sitepoint's PHP Anthology, Second Edition

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:49:53 -0800

Episode 31: Book Review: Sitepoint's PHP Anthology:101 Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Special Guests: Cal Evans
Release Date: 01/11/2008
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Let's start the year off right with a book review. Today, I will review SitePoint's new PHP book, The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks.

Show Notes for Episode 31

The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 30: CouchDB

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:39:30 -0800

Episode 30: CouchDB

Special Guests: Jan Lehnardt
Release Date: 12/21/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Our special guest today is Jan Lehnardt. Jan is an Open Source software consultant specialized on internet technologies. He has years of experience building both small and large scale database applications. He has a keen eye for user experience and typography. He co-founded Freisatz, a company bringing typographic bliss to everyone. Jan also contributes to several Open Source projects.

Today, Jan is going to talk to us about one of those projects, CouchDB.

Jan has kindly release the transcript of this episode of PHP Architect on CouchDB on his blog. Click on over if you want more details.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 29: PHP Women Podcast (Recorded Live)

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:08:43 -0800

Episode 29: PHP Women Podcast (Recorded Live)

Special Guests: Ligaya Turmelle, Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith, Sara Golemon
Release Date: 12/13/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Regular listeners are probably getting tired of hearing me say this, but today we are going to do something a little different. Back in October of 2007, PHPWomen passed their first birthday. It's taken me a while to get everything together but finally, I got a chance to sit down with four of the charter members, Ligaya Turmelle, Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith and Sara Golemon and talk about the first year of phpwomen.

We recorded this live via Skype and WebEx so I apologize for allowing our standards to drop a bit but I hope you'll stick with us as it was a fun conversation.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 28: Interview with Aviv Katz

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:45:47 -0800

Episode 28: Interview with Aviv Katz

Special Guest: Aviv Katz
Release Date: 12/06/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today, we are going to do something a little different. While I was at ZendCon 07, I had the opportunity to sit down with fellow Zender, Aviv Katz. Aviv is the product manager of Zend Core and Zend Network. Most people think that because we all work at the same company we all know each other. Zend is a very distributed company, that's one of the things I love about it. The downside of that however, is that a lot of us don't see each other during the course of a year. So when I was offered the opportunity to talk to Aviv I naturally jumped at it.

To be fair, this discussion, unlike most of my other interviews, is mainly about a product and not about Aviv. it's not the first product review we've done on PHP Abstract but I don't want anyone to say I didn't warn you.

Show Notes for Episode 28

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:05:58 -0800

Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks

Special Guest: Elizabeth Smith
Release Date: 11/30/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Todays special guest is Elizabeth Marie Smith. I quote now from her "About Me" page of her blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes. Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial but has used PHP 5 for so long now she's forgotten how she ever got by without SPL and a real object model. She is a certifiable geek, if it can be compiled on windows, she'll compile it, if not...she'll fix it so it does. She enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP as well - all this in between caring for her 4 kids and husband.

Today Elizabeth is going to share with us about PECL, the PHP Extension Community Library.

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 26: PHP in Action

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:18:58 -0800

Episode 26: Book Review: PHP in Action

Special Guest: Cal Evans
Release Date: 11/22/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today we are going to do something a little different. I've got books stacking up here that need reviewing, so I'm going to start interjecting book reviews into the podcast stream. Hey, you want to be a podcaster? You want to earn $75 and a free book? Email me, [cal at zend dot com] I'd love to talk to you.

This week's book is "PHP in Action" by Manning Publications

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 25: An Interview With Sara Golemon

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:18:49 -0800

Episode 25: An Interview With Sara Golemon

Special Guest: Sara Golemon
Release Date: 11/15/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today, we are going to talk to the PECL princess herself, Sara Golemon. Sara is one of the core contributors to PHP and when she's not coding for PHP, speaking at conferences or writing books she fills her time working at Yahoo. I had the privilege of sitting down with Sara at php|works earlier this year in Atlanta GA and talk with her about her background, why she likes PHP and anything else that came to mind. Since the PHP community is in constant motion, some of what we talk about, specifically, PHP6 and Unicode, is out dated. However, since it's interesting, I've left it in.

Show Notes for Episode 25

This Week's Contest for Busy Programmers Winners

Regular readers will know that we are currently running the Contest for Busy Programmers. Each week, I select a blog entry that discusses a PHP Abstract episode and give the author a book from Cal's Stack of Books. If you want a shot at winning a free book, make sure you check the contest rules and blog regularly about PHP Abstract!

This weeks winner is:

Marc Gear

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 24: Web Services

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:16:05 -0700

Episode 24: Web Services

Special Guest: Davey Shafik
Release Date: 11/01/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Davey Shafik. Davey is a regular on PHP Abstract and I've receited his bio enough so that those of you who listen regularly can probably recite along with me. Davey is a full time developer with 10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. He is an author of both magazine articles as well as books and regularly speaks at PHP conferences. His latest book was just released, "The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition" which he co wrote with another PHP Abstract host, Matthew Weier O'Phinney. They had a lot of help from other PHP Lumminaries including Ligaya Turmelle of phpwomen.org. A link to this brand new book can be found in the show notes.

Today Davey is going to talk to us today about Web Services.

Show Notes for Episode 24

This Week's Contest for Busy Programmers Winners

Regular readers will know that we are currently running the Contest for Busy Programmers. Each week, we select a blog entry that discusses a PHP Abstract episode and give the author a book from Cal's Stack of Books. If you want a shot at winning a free book, make sure you check the contest ruls and blog regularly about PHP Abstract!

This weeks winners are:

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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 23: Interview with Sean Coates

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:49:59 -0700

Episode 23: Interview with Sean Coates

Special Guest: Sean Coates
Release Date: 10/25/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today we are going to do something a little different. I was privileged to attend php|works in Atlanta. While there, between tasks, Sean Coats agreed to sit down with me and talk for a bit. Given his level of participation in php|works I was grateful for any time he was able to spare. Come listen as we talk about his work at php|architect, work on the PHP manual and programming in general. This is the first of a couple of interviews I was able to do at php|works.

Show Notes for Episode 23

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PHP Abstract Episode 22: Screen Scraping

devzone@zend.com (Zend DevZone Editor-in-Chief) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:58:03 -0700

Episode 22: Screen Scraping

Special Guest: Matthew Turland
Release Date: 10/18/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Today's special guest is Matthew Turland (Elazar to those of you who hang on on the #phpc channel on freenode.net)

Matt has been building PHP applications since 2002. He joined the ranks of PHP-Oracle developers in 2006 when he became a programmer for METHODS Technology Solutions. He contributes to open source projects such as the Zend and Forkr frameworks. He is a regular on the PHP Community channel of the Freenode IRC network. Matthew regularly shares his experience on his blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes.

We are going to veer off the beaten path today as Matthew talks to us about Screen Scraping.

Show Notes for Episode 22

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