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Chapter one is pretty much an overview of frameworks including Zend Framework and 13 bullet points why you should consider Zend Framework. Very informative and the bullets get right to the point. Some minor tweaking and this chapter could possibly be a pretty good white paper for customers thinking about deploying ZF.

Chapter two get down to the nitty-gritty of frameworks and a little bit of history behind design patterns. A topic that can be very confusing and controversial between developers. Chapter two ends with a quick overview of the Model-View-Controller design pattern in which ZF uses.

Overall the two chapters were very informative.  I am looking forward to the rest of the chapters, including the full chapter about Models in MVC and some in depth ZF Code.  I suggest if you are looking to learn more about Zend Framework you add this to your list of bookmarks as it will be growing regularly.

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Tuesday’s are here, Wednesday’s are here, and Thursdays are here.

• PHP Developer Best Practices (SlideShare) – Matthew Weier O’Phinney &Mike Naberezny
• Introduction to Object Oriented PHP – Marcus Börger
• PHP Security Crash Course – Part 1 – Kevin Schroeder
• Zend PHP5 Certification Crash Course – Part 1 – Christian Wenz

• SQL Query Tuning: The legend of the Drunken Query Master (SlideShare) – Jay Pipes
• Quality Assurance in PHP Projects (SlideShare) – Sebastian Bergmann
• PHP Security Crash Course – Part 2 – Kevin Schroeder
• Zend PHP5 Certification Crash Course – Part 2 – Christian Wenz

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Monday’s are Here, Tuesday’s are here and Wednesday’s are here.

Thursday, September 18th

• Scaling Mozilla’s Websites with PHP – Laura Thomson
• Make your PHP Application Software-as-Service (SaaS) Ready with Parallels Open Platform (SlideShare) – Jack Zubarev
• Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and Javascript (SlideShare) – Edward Finkler

• What’s New in PHP 5.3 (Panel Discussion) – Andi Gutmans, Stanislav Malyshev, Marcus Borger, Elizabeth M Smith
• Taking it All Offline with SQL Anywhere (SlideShare) – Eric Farrar
• End-to-end Web Testing with Selenium (SlideShare) – Stefan Priebsch
• Solving the C20K Problem: Raising the Bar in PHP Performance and Scalability – Luxi Chidambaran

• How Shaklee Used PHP & Zend to Build a Featherlight Front-end That Just Won’t Go Down – Chris Jones
• I need more servers! What do I do? (Scaling a PHP Application) – Maurice Kherlakian
• Digging Through the Guts of Enterprise PHP: A Case Study (SlideShare) – Shawn M. Lauriat

KEYNOTE: Closing KeyNote with American Cancer Society (SlideShare) – David J. Neff

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Monday’s are Here, Tuesday’s is here and Thursday’s is here.

Wednesday, September 17th

KEYNOTE: Magento eCommerce and the Next Generation of PHP Applications (SlideShare) – Roy Rubin (Varien), Yoav Kutner (Varien), Wil Sinclair (Zend)

• The Zend Way: Best Practices, plus Lessons Learned and “Not So” Best Practices – Gaylord Aulke
• Architecting for PHP5 – Why “Runs on PHP5″ is Not “Written for PHP5″ (PDF) – Elizabeth M Smith
• Creating an Earned Value System for the Department of Defense (SlideShare) – Scott Hathaway
• Pick your Protocol: Creating Web Services with Zend Framework (PDF) – Matthew Turland

• Lesser Known Security Problems in PHP Applications (PDF) – Stefan Esser
• The Power of Dojo (PDF) – Alex Russell
• PHP Clustering Solutions: Zend’s View – Alexander Abramovich
• Digital Identity (PDF) – Rob Richards

KEYNOTE: State of Ajax (SlideShare) – Dion Almaer

• Security-Centered Design: Don’t Just Plan for Security; Design For It (PDF) – Chris Shiflett
• Phar Scape – Marcus Boerger
• Server-Independent PHP Programming (SlideShare) – Eddo Rotman
• Building RIA with ZF and PHP (SlideShare) – John Coggeshall

• Zend_Layout and Zend_Form (SlideShare) – Matthew Weier O’Phinney
• PHP and AJAX Made Easier with Zend (SlideShare) – Roy Ganor
• VIM for (PHP) Programmers (PDF) – Andrei Zmievski
• Quickstart to Continuous Integration (SlideShare) – Sebastian Bergmann

• High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques (PDF) – Eli White
• PHP in the Enterprise (SlideShare) - Ivo Jansch
• PHP on Windows: The Undiscovered Country (SlideShare) – Garrett Serack
• Zend_Tool: Rapid Application Development with Zend Framework (PPT) – Ralph Schindler

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Monday’s are Here, Wednesday’s are here and Thursday’s are here.

Tuesday, September 16th

• KEYNOTE: Insights from the Experts: How PHP Leaders Are Transforming High-Impact PHP Applications – Harold Goldberg CEO of Zend Technologies, Inc.

• Microsoft’s PHP Community Involvement (SlideShare) – Tom Hanrahan
• Of Haystacks and Needles (PDF)- Derick Rethans
• Facebook Development with Zend Framework (PDF) – Brett Harris
• Join-Fu: The Art of SQL Tuning for MySQL (PDF) – Jay Pipes
• DB2 Storage Engine for MySQL and Open Source Applications – Erwin Earley

• Tiery Eyed (SlideShare) – Kevin Schoeder
• Leverage ZEND Framework for Your Next Flex RIA (SlideShare) – Wade Arnold
• Static and Dynamic Analysis at Ning (PDF) – David Sklar
• Modernizing i5 Applications (SlideShare) – Jon Paris
• Getting Started with Zend Framework – Matthew Weier O’Phinney

• PECL Picks – Extensions to Make Your Life Better (PDF) – Elizabeth M. Smith
• Make’em Talk (SlideShare) – Joe Stagner
• Scaling PHP Applications with Zend Platform (SlideShare) - Shahar Evron
• Internet – Working Your i5 – Larry Bolhuis
• Distribution and Publication with Atom Web Services (SlideShare) – Ben Ramsey

• PHP and the Secure Application Development Life-Cycle (SlideShare) – Robert van der Linde
• PHP Security on i5/OS (SlideShare) – Pat Botz
• Engaging Customers at One of the Largest Telecom Companies in the World – Gaylord Aulke
• PDO: PHP Data Objects (SlideShare) – Wez Furlong
• The Knight Rider Methodology to Software Development (PDF) – Eli White

• Customer Case Studies – HarrisData and APi Group (SlideShare) – Lane Nelson
• State & Ajax – How to Maintain Browser and Application State in an Asynchronous World (SlideShare) – Paul Reinheimer
• Top Zend Studio Secrets (SlideShare)- Guy Gurfinkel
• Rickroll To Go With PHP, WURFL, and Other Open Source Tools (PDF, MOV) – Brain DeShong
• PHP Extensions Writing – Sara Golemon

• Test Driven Development (PDF) – Derick Rethans
• (In)secure Ajax-y Websites with PHP (SlideShare) – Christian Wenz
• Elegant Ways of Handling PHP Errors and Exceptions (SlideShare) – Eddo Rotman
• Managing Permissions for Robust Applications (PDF) – Brandon Savage