In this edition I talked with [Matthew Weier O'Phinney @weierophinney], the project Lead of Zend Framework at Zend Technologies Ltd. [...] Matthew has been a speaker at so many PHP conferences and user groups. He also regularly performs and host webinars, the last one (if I'm not wrong) was about ZF2, which I missed out unfortunately. You will find more details about all those presentations on his personal blog here.

In the interview we get answers to things like:

• How he got started with PHP
• When and how he got involved in the community
• Advice to someone new to PHP
• Recommended resources and tools
• and some of his work at Zend and on the Zend Framework

ZF2 is here! Learn the basics so you can get started developing with ZF2 today. We'll cover the basics of creating your first controllers and views, as well as some core principles such as manipulating services and listening to events.

The webinar is happening tomorrow (Sept 12th) at 9am PDT and you can sign up here (Zend login required).

Cal's "three questions" for Matthew were:

• Since Zend Framework is the opposite of the ideals behind the Micro PHP Manifesto, what are your thoughts on it?
• Zend Framework 2 is close but not done - should a new project go with v1 or v2?
• What's your local user group and it's URL (hint: there's not one yet)

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by downloading it directly or by subscribing to their feed.

They spend most of the time talking about dependency injection - defining what it is and some of the plans there are to integrate it into the Zend Framework (including where the dependencies are created and used).

As always, you can either listen to this latest show via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 for listening at your leisure. You can also subscribe to their feed to make it even easier to get this and future episodes.

Welcome to the ZendCon 2010 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. [...] In this series we will be releasing sessions from ZendCon 2010! This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA and features Matthew Weier O'Phinney giving his talk: "Documents, Documents, Documents"

You can listen in one of a few ways - either via the embedded player on the Devzone site, by grabbing the mp3 itself or by subscribing to their feed to get this and other great episodes.

Late in December 2010 I started interviewing people for what will hopefully be a consistent stream of awesome podcasts. The first of those interviews was with Matthew Weier O'Phinney. In the interview he tells a little about himself, talks about Zend Framework (seriously?) where things have been and where things are going. It was quite an interesting interview to do and I am sure you will find listening to it just as interesting as it was to record it.

You can either listen in-page or you can download the mp3 of the interview to listen.

Zend Framework has grown tremendously since the first public preview release in March 2006. Originally a slim, MVC framework with a number of standalone components, it has grown to a codebase more than 2M lines of code. Work now turns to version 2, with goals of increased simplicity and advanced PHP 5.3 usage.

You can either listen via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly. You can also see the slides for the presentation over on Slideshare.

Matthew is a busy man these days working on Zend Framework 2.0, speaking at local user groups and in all his spare time being a dad and husband. I recently caught up with up with Matthew on IRC and in between answering my Zend Framework tech support questions, he agreed to answer...3 Questions.

His questions cover things like how he became the "Supreme Allied Commander" of the Zend Framework project, the major changes happening in Zend Framework 2.0's Zend_Form component and why his blog is named what it is (phly boy, phly).

Working in isolation is easy. Most developers have long lists of tasks that never get shorter, and it's trivially easy to put on blinders as you slog through the list. Good developers realize that the only way to get through the list is to start using the work of others [...] In this session, we'll look at the various ways you can contribute to open source projects, and some common tools you can use to do so.

You can either listen via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly and check out this great session.

The recording for last Friday's webcast Play-doh: Towards Better Object Modeling, hosted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney and part of our popular Summer Webcast Series, sponsored by Microsoft's Interoperability Labs is now available directly on our site.

Te webcast is a part of a series of presentations leading up to this year's CodeWorks conference with seven more to go before the big event. You can check out the webcasts page on the php|architect site for more details and to sign up for the upcoming events.

If you want more information on the touring CodeWorks conference, check out its main site.