by Kevin Schroeder | 11:18 am

On Discovery

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Hans Gruber Perhaps I am more contemplative when I wake at 3:00 and can’t get back

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:40 am

Zend Framework 2 Event Manager

Yes, I know I work for Zend and that means that I should automatically be familiar with everything the company does.  Especially when it comes to Zend Framework 2.  But I have to confess

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by Kevin Schroeder | 2:58 pm

ZendCon 2010 Podcasts

Earlier this year I started posting the recordings from ZendCon 2010 as podcasts.  Unfortunately, as often happens, my time started to get eaten up by a bunch of other activities and I ended up

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:12 am

Why PHP?

Today on twitter there was a conversation going on about the responsiveness of the core PHP developers to PHP users.  The conversation went as follows (I believe that all the tweets here were in

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:42 am

Enter Deployment: Zend Server 5.5

Today Zend Server 5.5 was released.  This is actually a pretty good sized deal.  The big addition to the Zend Server feature list is deployment.  Now, you might be saying “come on, Kevin, there

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by Kevin Schroeder | 1:00 pm

The best developers hit F5

The best developers hit “Refresh”?  No.  Well, yes, but that’s not what I was referring to.  F5 is what you hit in Zend Studio/PDT to “Step Into” during a debug session.  A LOT of

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by Kevin Schroeder | 4:03 pm

Authentication using Zend_Amf

I forget why, but a few days ago I started doing some digging around with authentication in Zend_Amf_Server.  I had figured that I would add an adapter to the Zend_Amf_Server::setAuth() method and that would

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by Kevin Schroeder | 10:35 am

Speaking at OsCon

This year OsCon will be graced by my presence.  And by that I mean; I get to go to OsCon!! This month on July 27th I will be speaking on PHP Performance.   I’m

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:25 pm

ZendCon Badge WordPress plugin

If you are speaking at, attending, sponsoring or exhibiting at ZendCon this year I invite you to download and install the ZendCon Badge WordPress plugin.  It’s fun and super easy. Download the plugin from

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by Kevin Schroeder | 5:20 pm

Deployment beta for Zend Server 5.5 – Getting Started

Deployment for PHP applications is one of those things where it’s tough to get a general reading on where things are.  On one hand you have people who have deployment mechanisms that seemingly automate

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