The Zend Developer Zone has posted episode eleven of their ZendCon Session podcast series today, Brian DeShong's talk from ZendCon 2007 on development methods.

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Brian DeShong present "The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development".

There's two ways to get this new episode - either download it directly from the ZDZ or you can subscribe to the feed and get this and other great recordings from the 2007 Zend conference.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted episode 8 of their ZendCon Sessions series podcast today - Shahar Evron's talk on methods for creating scalable development environments:

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Shahar Evron present "Building Scalable Development Environments".

The standard three methods for listening to the episode apply - subscribe to the feed, download the mp3 or just visit the page and use the built-in player.

The Zend Developer Zone has published their latest episode of the ZendCon Sessions series (as recorded at last year's ZendCon) - Eric David's talk on project management and standards.

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Eric David present "Project Management Methods to Maintain IT standards ".

You can either grab the mp3 to listen, use the in-page player or point your favorite aggregator at the feed for the series to get this and the other great episodes.

DevShed is starting up a new series this morning with this new tutorial, part one in the creation of a simple blogging system using PHP and MySQL.

In this three-part tutorial we are going to be creating an open blogging system. We are also going to provide scripts that will make it possible to switch to a closed blogging system. This article, which is the first part, will cover the creation of the login scripts for a closed system.

They start with a definition, the difference between an open blogging system and a closed one (if users have to register or not). They start with the creation of the database to store the users in followed by the PHP code for the simple login page. It uses sessions to keep track of which user is logged in. Of course, where there's a log in, there needs to be a log out and they give the simple code for that. Finally, they include a "forgot your password" script to help users when they can't remember the info they'd signed up with.