[DUG-TO] Fwd: Call Windows Azure API from Zend Framework, Optimize Drupal Performance, and more

Tue Feb 9 18:36:25 EST 2010

fyi re: benchmarking of drupal by acquia and zend.

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Subject: Call Windows Azure API from Zend Framework, Optimize Drupal
Performance, and more
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   - Learn How the Zend Framework Team Manages Issues and Feature
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   - How to Use Page Caching to Improve Application Response
Times<#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_caching>
   - Zend Framework 1.10 is Available <#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_zf11>
   - PHP Foundations Training is Now Available in
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   - Webinar - Simpler Debugging, Better Performance: What's New in Zend
   Server 5.0 <#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_webinar1>
   - Webinar - Best Practices for Magento
Development<#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_webinar2>
   - Webinar - PHP Performance: Principles and
Tools<#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_webinar3>
   - Webinar - Zend Server for IBM i in Action <#126b4c9f2d5f71e0_webinar4>

 TIPS AND TRICKS Optimizing Drupal Performance: New Benchmark Released

A new paper co-authored by Acquia and Zend presents the results of
performance benchmarks for comparing Drupal response times in various common
PHP runtime environments and configurations. This one is a must-read for any
Drupal administrator or developer!
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 Creating Re-Usable Zend_Application Resource Plugins

Most developers think of Zend_Application primarily in terms of a common
bootstrapping mechanism for Zend Framework applications. However, one chief
design goal was to provide developers with a framework for creating
resources that could be re-used across multiple applications. In this
article, Matthew explores how to create configurable, re-usable resource
plugins for Zend_Application.

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 Learn How the Zend Framework Team Manages Issues and Feature Requests

Several months ago we teamed up with
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the maker of many great development and collaboration tools. Check out the
recordings of our joint webinar on Development Best Practices and see how
the Zend Framework team uses JIRA and Confluence to manage issues, feature
requests, and proposal workflows.
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Watch the Development Best Practices webinar
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 Video: How to Use Page Caching to Improve Application Response Times

Check out this new YouTube video for a short demonstration on how to use
Zend Server page caching to improve application performance.

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  ZEND
NEWS Zend Framework 1.10 is Available

The new Zend Framework 1.10 includes support for Microsoft Windows Azure
cloud services and the Deutsche Telekom Developer Garden platform. New
documentation and tutorial enhancements are also available on the Zend
Framework web site.

Download Zend Server including Zend Framework
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 PHP Foundations Training is Now Available in Portuguese

Great news for all of you Portuguese speakers! Our popular 'PHP I:
Foundations' training is now being offered in Portuguese. This online, live,
instructor-led class teaches the essentials of PHP through numerous examples
and hands-on exercises. Offered March 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24 & 26
from 9am-11am PST.

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 InfoWorld Review: Eight PHP Power Tools

InfoWorld recently put to test eight PHP IDEs, including Zend Studio and
PDT, and scored them based on value, ease-of-use, tools, SQL support,
installation and more.

Read the full review
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ZEND
WEBINARS Simpler Debugging, Better Performance: What's New in Zend Server
5.0

*February 25, 2010* - 9:00 am PST

The new release of Zend Server 5.0 will soon be generally available. Join
this technical webinar to find out how you can debug production issues using
the new code tracing feature, improve performance with job queue, and much
more.

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  Best
Practices for Magento Development

*February 10, 2010* - 9:00 am PST

Zend Framework-based Magento has become the world's fastest growing
e-commerce platform. If you are a developer looking to code for Magento or
develop Magento extensions, please join Zend and the Magento team for a
webinar introducing important development best practices.

Register for webinar
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 PHP Performance: Principles and Tools

*February 18, 2010* - 12:00 pm PST

One of the more common problems that many organizations face is the
perception of performance in their web application, or rather, the lack of
it. With this webinar we will take a look at several different performance
"best practices" and look at some ways you can analyze what is happening on
your server.

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 Zend Server for IBM i in Action

*February 24, 2010* - 9:00 am PST

This presentation explores the power of the latest release of Zend Solutions
for IBM i. Features to be discussed and demonstrated include code tracing,
code acceleration, Job Queue and full page caching.

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Ed's Corner: Need for Speed

Speed. We all crave it, whether it's for a faster laptop, or new phone, or
latest operating system, the need for speed is an ongoing quest for us
techies. So with the recent announcements from Facebook and even from us at
Zend about our latest performance
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