For those that will be in the New York City area tomorrow night (10/25), Daniel Krook has something you should consider attending - the New York PHP User Group is having a meeting with a talk on MongoDB (and a ZendCon Recap).

PHP on IBM System i consultant ZendCon. 10gen MongoDB evangelist Steve Francia will provide an overview on using PHP with MongoDB.

You'll need to RSVP to get a spot or, if you can't make it in person, you can always watch the live stream starting at 6:30pm.

Have a user group meeting you'd like to let the community know about? Let us know!

On the Zend Developer Zone today the latest episode in the ZendCon Sessions podcast has been posted. This episode is from Michelangelo van Dam's presentation Unit Testing in Zend Framework 1.8".

This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA and features Michelangelo van Dam giving his talk: "Unit Testing in Zend Framework 1.8"

You can either listen to the session via the in-page player or download the mp3 to have locally. He's also made the slides available so you can follow along.

Several of the people that attended this year's ZendCon conference in California last week have posted their own perspectives on the days of the conference (as well as some overall wrapups). Here's the list so far:

• Keith Casey's ZendCon 2010 Recap
• a summary from Neal Anders
• Ligaya Turmelle's wrapup post (and her look at tutorial day)
• Michelangelo van Dam's thoughts on the conference
• Another summary from Bulat Shakirzyanov

If you have a wrapup of this great conference and want to share it here, email me and let me know - I'll add it to the list!

The Zend Developer Zone has an update about the upcoming ZendCon conference coming in just two weeks.

ZendCon is now only two weeks away, and we've been hard at work in preparing for it. We've got a number of things in the works that we hope you are going to really enjoy!

Updates include new developments on the Unconference sesions, the creation of two new types of tickets - a First Day pass for $299 and a pass for just the UnCon/Expo Hall and opening Keynote. More information can be found on the registration website. There have also been two new keynote speakers added to the schedule - Andi Gutmans speaking on "PHP at the Heart of Mainstream IT" and Scott Baker's talk "A Series of Fortunate Events".

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest in their ZendCon Sessions podcast series, recordings from the ZendCon 2008 conference. This episode is Chris Shiflett's presentation on application security - "Security Centered Design".

In this series we will be releasing regular sessions from ZendCon 2008 as we lead up to this year's ZendCon. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Chris Shiflett giving his talk: "Security Centered Design"

The usual ways to get and listen to this latest episode are all there - the in-page player, download the mp3 or you can subscribe to their feed and get the latest delivered right to your doorstep.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new episode of their "ZendCon Sessions" podcast series as recorded at last year's Zend/PHP Conference in Santa Clara, CA. This time it's a recording of Christian Wenz's "(In)secure Ajax-y Websites with PHP" talk.

Welcome to the ZendCon 2008 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself. [...] This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Christian Wenz giving his talk: "(In)secure Ajax-y Websites with PHP"

You can grab the mp3 of the episode, use the in-page player to listen or subscribe to the podcast feed to get this and other great episodes.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode in their "ZendCon Sessions" podcast series (as recorded at last year's ZendCon conference) - Brian DeShong's talk titled "Rickroll To Go With PHP, WURFL, and Other Open Source Tools".

Welcome to the ZendCon 2008 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself. [...] This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Brian DeShong giving his talk: "Rickroll To Go With PHP, WURFL, and Other Open Source Tools"

You can listen to this new episode in the usual three ways - via the in-page player, downloading the mp3 or subscribing to their podcast feed to get them automatically. You can also check out Brian's slides on Slideshare to follow along.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode in their "ZendCon Sessions" series of podcasts. These sessions were recorded live at last year's Zend/PHP Conference. This episode is from Sara Golemon's talk on writing extensions for PHP.

The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself. [...] This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA...and is Sara Goleman giving her talk: "PHP Extension Writing".

You can get this new episode one of three ways - the in-page player, via the mp3 or by subscribing to the podcast feed.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode in their "ZendCon Sessions" series from the Zend/PHP Conference 2008. This time it's Matthew Weier O'Phinney's talk on the Zend Framework version 1.8 (which was just released).

In this episode I interview Matthew Weier O'Phinney, recently promoted to Project Lead of Zend Framework for Zend Technologies, to find out about all the new features in Zend Framework 1.8. He talks about Zend_Tool, Zend_Application, and much more.

You can grab it in the same three ways as always - download the mp3 directly, listen using the in-page player or subscribe to their feed and get this and other great sessions downloaded for you automatically. (iTunes too!)

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their "ZendCon Sessions" podcasts from last year's ZendCon conference in Santa Clara, CA. This episode is a recording of Derick Rethans' talk "Of Haystacks and Needles".

Welcome to the ZendCon 2008 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself.

You can listen to this new episode in one of three ways - either download the mp3 directly, listen via the in-page player or you can subscribe to their podcast feed and get each episode delivered right to you.