Deployment with Zend Server (Part 1 of 8)
I manage a number of websites running on Zend Server, Zend's PHP application platform. I've started accumulating a number of patterns and tricks that make the deployments more successful, and which...
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This is the second in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed getting started with Zend Server on the AWS marketplace and using...
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This is the third in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed creating recurring jobs via Zend Job Queue, Ã la cronjobs. Today, I'm...
View ArticleDeployment with Zend Server (Part 4 of 8)
This is the fourth in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed a trick I learned about when to execute a chmod statement during...
View ArticleDeployment with Zend Server (Part 5 of 8)
This is the fifth in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed how to secure your Job Queue job scripts. Today, I'm sharing some best...
View ArticleDeployment with Zend Server (Part 6 of 8)
This is the sixth in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed setting job script status codes. Today, I'm sharing some tips around...
View ArticleDeployment with Zend Server (Part 7 of 8)
This is the seventh in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed setting up and clearing page caching. Today, I'm sharing how to use...
View ArticleDeployment with Zend Server (Part 8 of 8)
This is the final in a series of eight posts detailing tips on deploying to Zend Server. The previous post in the series detailed using the Zend Server SDK to deploy your Zend Server deployment...
View ArticleFrom Zend Framework To The Laminas Project
Ten years ago this month, I was involved in a couple of huge changes for Zend Framework. First, I helped spearhead integration of the JavaScript library Dojo Toolkit into Zend Framework, and finalized...
View ArticleSplitting the ZF2 Components
Today we accomplished one of the major goals towards Zend Framework 3: splitting the various components into their own repositories. This proved to be a huge challenge, due to the amount of history in...
View ArticleOn Deprecating ServiceLocatorAware
A month or two ago, we pushed a new release of zend-mvc that provides a number of forwards-compatibility features to help users prepare their applications for the upcoming v3 release. One of those was,...
View ArticleProgrammatic Expressive
Enrico just returned from phpDay, where he spoke about Expressive and the upcoming Zend Framework 3. One piece of feedback he brought back had to do with how people perceive they should be building...
View ArticleUsing Composer to Autoload ZF Modules
One aspect of Zend Framework 3, we paid particular focus on was leveraging the Composer ecosystem. We now provide a number of Composer plugins for handling things such as initial project installation,...
View ArticleThe Future of Zend Framework
For the past thirteen years, I've been either consuming Zend Framework or directly contributing to it. Since 2009, I've operated as project lead, and, since then, shepherded the version 2 and 3...
View ArticleLooking For A New Adventure
Update As of 2019-10-01, I am once again employed full-time. Thank you everyone who reached out! Fourteen years ago, almost to the day, I received a job offer from Zend to join their nascent eBiz...
View ArticleMore Changes Coming for the Laminas Project
Progress has been happening at a furious pace on the Zend Framework to Laminas transition, with major changes still dropping even now. Most recently, we decided to rename the subprojects. Apigility...
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