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My good friend Gerrit “Remi” te Sligte wrote me yesterday to remind me that phpGG (The newly formed Dutch PHP group) has their next meeting soon.

I'm pleased to announce I've been selected to speak at php|works in Atlanta this November. I'll be presenting my talk on Dojo and Zend Framework, demonstrating how to quickly and easily create rich and dynamic UIs using the various integration points with Dojo functionality provided by Zend Framework.

This tutorial will set you through using Zend_Tool to jump-start development on your next ZF MVC application. Zend_Tool is both RAD tools as well as a framework for exposing your own set of tooling needs to the Zend_Tool user interface. While the areas in which extending Zend_Tool are exhaustive, we will focus merely on obtaining and using the current Zend_Tool toolset.

Christoph Dorn has released an interesting tutorial over on his blog about how to use the new Zenf Framework/FirePHP integration.

That right, fire up those down-loaders and grab your headlamp and pick-axe. There’s fresh code to be had for the taking!

I'm giving a webinar on Zend Framework and Dojo Integration this coming Wednesday, 3 Sept 2008. I'm particularly excited about this webinar, as I've been developing a sample pastebin application to show off a number of features; the webinar will feature some screencasts showing the new code in action, and promises to be much more dynamic than my typical "bullet point and code" presentations.

We're getting ready to release Zend Framework 1.6.0. However, one important Dijit had to be omitted from the release as I was not able to get it working in time: dijit.Editor. This dijit is important as it provides an out-of-the-box WYSIWYG editor that you can use with your forms. Unfortunately, actually using it with forms is pretty tricky -- Dojo actually ends up storing content outside the form, which means you need to create a handler that pulls the content into a hidden element when saving.

I'll be speaking at ZendCon again this year, and have a four-course meal of sessions to deliver:

It is often said, but one of the great things about the CodeIgniter project is the community that sprung up around it.  Hardworking, smart, insightful, patient people.

It’s not often that I review a book that is a year old for several reasons. The main reason is that technology changes so fast. In this day and age a book 12 months old usually contains out dated information. As with any good rule, there are exemptions, this book is one of them.