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Like Marc Gear, I also got the email from Zend this morning announcing the new Zend Studio beta, codenamed Neon and based on Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM). I’ve been a Zend Studio Professional user for a couple of years and spend probably three-quarters of my computer time using the [...]

I finally went out this morning and sat the Zend PHP5 exam (and passed!). It seemed a great deal easier than the original ZCE exam was… but then again that was 2004 and I’ve done a bit more programming since then
I thought that the new exam was less obscure than the PHP4 [...]

In a move that’s come as a surprise to many people, Zend and Microsoft today announced they’ve formed a long-term partnership to improve the performance, reliability and stability of PHP on Windows Server platforms.
The official media release is here and Reuters have more reporting here.
Hopefully this will just mean better deployment options for PHP in [...]

The Zend Framework Project this morning released their new GData Client Library for interfacing with the Google Data APIs.
The Google data APIs (GData) provide a protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData can use either Atom or RSS and has a feed-publishing system built on Atom with some custom extensions for [...]