On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest episode in their DPC Radio series as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference. This episode is Martin de Keijzer's talk Let's take over the world with Zend Framework.

Many people use Zend Framework for it's MVC implementation, but it has a lot of hidden gems. Internationalization (i18n) is one of them. We will look how you can create an application that will have the right languages, currencies, dates and times all based on the location of the visiting user. This session will take away a lot of headaches in international projects and will improve the quality in overall.

To listen you can either use the in-page player, download the mp3 or subscribe to their feed to get the latest. Martin's slides are also posted to Slideshare.

The Ibuildings techPortal has started back up with their DPC Radio recordings from last year's Dutch PHP Conference with a recording of a keynote from Helgi, "First Class APIs".

APIs are commonly an afterthought, like a hot tub awkwardly attached to a house  - a shoehorned approach that produces a suboptimal app with scarce support that lacks documentation. In effect, APIs are the ugly stepchild of the Web.

He talks about why APIs are commonly an afterthought and some suggestions on how you can change that in your current and future applications. You can listen to this latest episode either by using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed. You can also see the slides over on Slideshare.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest episode in their DPCRadio series (as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference) - Stephan Hochdoerfer's talk Real World Dependency Injection.

The Dependency Injection (DI) pattern is getting more and more attention in the PHP world due to it's code simplification effects. It focuses on the complete separation of object instantiation and dependency tracking from the business logic resulting in a loosely coupled system. In addition to that the resulting code is a lot easier to test since the classes are no longer responsible for instantiating their own dependencies. This session will introduce the basics of the DI pattern to the audience in addition to share real world experience of DI in several customer projects in the last four years.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also follow along with Stephen's slides.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a new post of a video interview with Chris Shiflett from last year's Dutch PHP Conference.

Today we're delighted to bring you another video interview from last year's Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam. We're getting excited about this year's event (you can find the schedule here and if you want to join us then registration is open) so it seemed like a great time to bring you a reminder of one of the most memorable talks from last year. Enjoy!

The video can be watched in-page in the techPortal post or over on Vimeo.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest webcast in their "DPCRadio" series as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference. In this latest episode they share David Zuelke's talk Embracing Constraints with CouchDB.

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the NoSQL movement in general and CouchDB in particular. For people who are used to relational databases, a lot of CouchDB's limitations look like severe disadvantages; these constraints however can also be great opportunities. This talk will give an overview of CouchDB and then focus on embracing the system's constraints to build better products.

You can either listen in-page or download the mp3 to get this latest episode. If you'd like to follow along with his slides, you can find them on SlideShare.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest episode of their recording series from last year's Dutch PHP Conference (DPCRadio) - Sebastian Bergmann's talk The Cake is a Lie.

Scaffolding, the meta-programming method of building software applications, promises easier development and a faster time-to-market. But the "code generation bliss" can lead to problems later on, for instance with regard to maintainability and scalability. This sessions takes a skeptical look at frameworks such as CakePHP and symfony.

You can listen in one of three handy ways - either by listening in-page, downloading the (rather large) mp3 or by subscribing to their feed to get this and other great techPortal content.

The Ibuildings techPortal has posted their latest episode in their DPCRadio podcast series as recorded at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010. This latest episode is Harrie Verveer's talk about database version control.

We've all read the textbooks and are using version control systems for our code, but our databases are left out in the cold. Every team has their own workaround, ranging from patch files to SQL snippets in the bugtracker, but none is really robust. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet, but there are several tools and best practices that can help you to make your life easier. This talk shows several approaches that can help you to overcome this problem and to control database structure changes in a more sophisticated way.

You can either listen in-page on their player or you can download the mp3 and listen whenever you'd like. You can find his slides here and, as an extra bonus, an article on the same topic also on the techPortal.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a new video posted of a discussion between several of the published authors that were in attendance at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010 for a few questions.

Here's a video from the Dutch PHP Conference 2010, where we pulled together some of the published technical authors at the event (many of them speakers) and asked them a few questions about books, writing, and getting published. Here's what they had to say...

Authors included Cal Evans, Ivo Jansch, Rob Allen, Derick Rethans and Kevlin Henney who offer some of their tips on getting published and writing a book for yourself.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a video interview with a keynote speaker from last year's Dutch PHP Conference - Kevlin Henney.

To kick off 2011 here's an interview with our inspirational keynote speaker Kevlin Henney - talking about development and how we can keep bettering ourselves!

If the in-page player doesn't work, you can go directly over to the Vimeo site and watch it there. You can see other video interviews and podcasts from the Dutch PHP Conference 2010 in the dcpradio tag on the techPortal.

New on the Ibuildings techPortal site the latest episode of their DPCRadio podcast series has been posted (as recorded at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010). This episode is Johannes Schluter's talk "Under PHP's Hood".

PHP developers usually don't have to care about the inner workings of PHP and the Zend Engine as it simply works. This presentation will present some of the inner workings, like teaching the truth about references. Additionally it will present basics of PHP's opcode, the internal representation of a script, and it's consequences for opcode caching, autoloading and other related issues.

As always, you can either listen via the in-page player or you can download it and listen later.