The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode in the ZendCon Sessions series of podcasts today as recorded at the Zend/PHP Conference 2010. This new episode is Shahar Evron's talk Best Practices in PHP Application Deployment.

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. 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 2010 in Santa Clara, CA and features Shahar Evron giving his talk: "Best Practices in PHP Application Deployment"

This new episode can be listened to in a few ways - either in-page, downloaded or by subscribing to their feed. You can also find the slides on SlideShare.

On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a reminder about an upcoming Zend webinar being helps April 22nd (4pm UTC/GMT) about increasing application performance through caching hosted by Shahar Evron.

Zend are holding a free webinar on Wednesday 22 April from San Francisco (9:00am PDT, 4:00pm UTC/GMT). The event is led by Shahar Evron and titled "How to increase application performance using caching". Shahar will give a one-hour live demonstration showing the steps required to optimize and boost the performance of your PHP applications using Zend Server.

The web conference will show how to make use of the Zend Server Community Edition to squeeze more performance out of your PHP applications. The community server includes functionality for Zend Optimizer, a Java/PHP extension, the Oracle extension, phpMyAdmin and the Zend Framework.

The Zend Developer Zone has pointed out a new white paper (written up by Shahar Evron of Zend) about data caching with the Zend Server product Zend offers.

Did you know that Zend Server not only has it’s own PHP accelerator built in (like APC). But that it also has similar functionality allowing for caching of data in shared memory? Shahar Evron, Project Manager of Zend Server, has written a white paper describing just how exactly to use this to good effect.

Caching is one of the simplest ways to increase the speed of your application and Zend Server makes it simple with its included Optimizer+, Zend Page Cache and Data Cache API tools. For more information, you can download the whitepaper here [pdf].

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.