On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's the latest episode (and the last) of their Dutch PHP Conference session recordings from the 2009 conference - Eli White's "Code and Release Management" presentation.

Programmers seem to have a fairly good grasp on 'how to write code', but not always what to do with it once it's been written. This talk with delve into details about how to manage your codebase, and how to manage releases (often intertwined). It will cover topics of coding standards and focus heavily on how you choose to use versioning tools to handle your development and release processes. It will have a distinct Subversion(SVN) flavor to the talk, but the concepts will not be specific to SVN.

You can either use the in-page player to listen or you can grab the mp3 directly and listen at your leisure.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest podcast recording from the 2009 Dutch PHP Conference sessions, Paul Reinheimer's look at maintaining state with Ajax ("in an Asynchronous World").

This talk will examine the two greatest problems in Ajax development (except for that pesky browser issue): Exactly what that "Asynchronous" word means, what problems it creates, and how they can be effectively managed, next the YUI Browser History object will be examined, finally handing control of Ajax applications back to the user via their familiar back button.

You can listen to this new episode in one of two ways - either by using the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a new post with the latest in their Dutch PHP Confernece 2009 sessions podcasts. This episode is Juliette Reinders Folmer's presentation Everything you always wanted to know about UTF-8 (but never dared to ask).

With PHP6 in the works and said to be fully UTF-8 compliant, the interest in the community in using UTF-8 has grown. On top of that, with PHP entering the - often multilingual - enterprise web playing field, the benefits UTF-8 can bring are getting more attention. Unfortunately most developers at one point or another run into problems implementing UTF-8.

Her presentation included some basic linguistics, client side things you'll need to consider and things to watch out for on the database side too. As usual, you can listen either through the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly.

On the Ibuildings techPortal there's a new post with the latest episode of their Dutch PHP Conference sessions (from 2009's event) - Dustin Whittle's talk on open source at Yahoo.

Join us for a case study on using open source tools to build a platform for enterprise web applications. Find out what worked and what didn't when building scalable web applications with open source tools (apache, php/apc, mysql, memcache, symfony, yui). Learn how you can tools Yahoo! offers for developers and how your team can leverage Yahoo's Open Stack for your next web project. We will examine the components that make up Yahoo's open stack: developer tools (YUI), data APIs (YQL), and the application platform (YAP).

You can either listen to this latest episode on the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly from Ibuildings and listen at your leisure. You can also find his slides for the presentation here.

The Ibuildings techPortal has published the latest episode in their Dutch PHP Conference series of recordings - Andrei Zmievski's talk All the Little Pieces: Distributed systems with PHP.

Quick, what do memcache, MogileFS, and Gearman have in common? They are scalable, distributed technologies, and they can also interface with PHP, your ubiquitous Web development language. Digg uses all 3 (and a few more) in its quest for social news domination, and this session will share much of what we've learned about them and how they are best utilized with PHP.

You can either listen to this latest episode on the in-page player or you can download it directly. If you'd like to follow along with the slides, you can find them here.

On the Ibuildings techPortal they're posted the latest podcast in their Dutch PHP Conference 2009 sessions series - Boy Baukema's talk on why every PHP developer should love Javascript.

In this talk these and more comparisons will be drawn between the two languages. The main weaknesses and strengths of JavaScript will be discussed and compared to PHP. Examples will be given of closures and lambda functions in JavaScript and they will be compared to the implementation of these same features in the upcoming PHP 5.3. And through comparison the speaker will demonstrate that the two languages are quite similar.

To listen you can either use the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly and listen offline at your leisure.

On the Ibuildings techPortal site today they've published the latest episode in their Dutch PHP Conference 2009 podcast series. This time it's Eli White's talk on highly scalable web applications.

A constant pariah on web applications is scaling once you become popular. It's not always an easy task (ok, never). This talk will go into depth on a few of the most common techniques for making your website scalable. So that you can leave with enough knowledge to apply this, if needed. Or just to plan ahead so that your future projects don't preclude taking these steps when needed.

You can listen this new episode in one of two ways - either via the in-page player or by just downloading the mp3 directly and listening to it in your audio player of choice.

The Ibuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode of their Dutch PHP Conference 2009 podcast series, a session given by Peter Verhage on handling the ups and downs of server loads and traffic.

NU.nl is a well known news website in its homeland, The Netherlands, and is actively expanding into other countries. On an average day NU.nl will serve up 7 million page views; peak traffic days are more than triple that number. [...] In this [episode] we want to look at the front end that we architected for NU.nl, and how we designed the system to handle both regular traffic and peaks.

To listen you can either use the in-page player or you can grab the mp3 directly.

The Ibuildings techPortal has published two new episodes of their DPC09 Sessions podcast today - one from Sebastian Bergmann and the other from Michal Wittke.

>Sebastian's talk covered the internals of the PHP language and gave a step by step tour though how the code is parsed and executed. You can either listen to this episode via the in-page player or via the mp3 download

The next episode is Michael Wittke's talk in getting PHP up and running on embedded devices like web-enabled cameras or mobile devices. As with the previous episode, you can either listen via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3.

The Ibuildings techPortal has posted their latest episode of their presentations from the 2009 edition of the Dutch PHP Conference. This new episode is Jan Lehnardt's look at CouchDB.

Learn how to use CouchDB replication for load-balancing, fault tolerance, offline work and backup. We are showing how to set up each and what you need to look out for. Finally, this talk is sprinkled with neat tricks and best practices for deploying CouchDB. Which load balancers are people using, how to make the best use of caching, etc.

You can either listen via the in-page player or you can download the feed directly.