The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new episode in their ZendCon Sessions series today - a recording of Eddo Rotman's talk on exception handling.

Welcome to the ZendCon 2008 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. [...] n 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 Eddo Rotman giving his talk: "Elegant Ways of Handling PHP Errors and Exceptions"

You can listen to this episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or, of course, subscribing to the podcast feed.

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 of their "ZendCon Sessions" podcast series (as recorded at the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2008). This episode is Wez Furlong's talk on PDO.

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 is Wez Furlong giving his talk: "PDO: PHP Data Objects"

The usual three ways for listening are still there - download the mp3, listen in-page and, of course, subscribe to their feed to get each new (and some older) episodes delivered right to your desktop.

On the Zend Developer Zone today they've published the latest in their "ZendCon Sessions" podcast series - Distribution and Publication with Atom Web Services.

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 Ben Ramsey giving his talk: "Distribution and Publication With Atom Web Services"

The usual three ways are available for you to listen - the in-page player, downloading the mp3 and, of course, subscribing to the podcast's feed.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest podcast in their "ZendCon Sessions" series (talks given at last year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo) - this session from David Sklar about data analysis at Ning.

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 is David Sklar giving his talk: "Static and Dynamic Analysis at Ning"

As always, there's three ways to catch this new episode: you can either listen via the in-page player, download the mp3 or subscribe to their feed to get this and other great episodes.

Speaking of which, if you'd like to catch up (and there's plenty of them), you can check out the ZendCon Sessions page for links to all previous episodes.

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.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest podcast in their "ZendCon Sessions" series - a talk given by Elizabeth Smith at the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2008 called "PECL Picks - Extensions to make your life better".

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 check out this new episode in a few different ways - you can either grab the mp3 directly, listen on the in-page player or subscribe to the feed to get this and other great talks delivered right to you.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a relaunch of the ZendCon Sessions podcast today with this fifteenth episode, a talk given by Matthew Weier O'Phinney at the 2008 Zend/PHP Conference & Expo - "Getting Started with Zend Framework".

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 is Matthew Weier O'Phinney giving his presentation: "Getting Started with Zend Framework"

You can both check out the slides or listen to the talk either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also subscribe to the feed to get future episodes automatically.

As a part of this year's Zend/PHP Conference and Expo (2008), the PHP Women group hosted an unconference session. They talk about the session in this new post to their site.

At ZendCon this year, Juliette Reinders-Folmer of phpwomen.org ran a session in the unconference entitled "Women in IT". In this session she invited the attendees (a fairly even mix of the genders) to discuss various aspects of women working in the male-dominated IT industry, and specifically in PHP. We were lucky enough (thanks Paul Reinheimer of php|architect!) to get the session recorded.

You can download the audio from the phpwomen.org website and check out the forum entry to continue the discussion. Their post also includes several talking points concerning women in the IT industry and how PHP Women can help.

Jamie Hemmett has a few suggestions for local user groups out there on what to do and not to do to help make their group successful. Some of it was gathered from personal experience, other tips from the recent user group panel discussion from this year's ZendCon.

I just listened to the PHP User group Panel discussion from the Unconference session at ZendCon. While I listened I took some notes to try and help our Irish PHP Users Group be awesome like some of the other groups out there. I reckon the podcast and great tips it contains will help other User Groups out there too (not just PHP).

Some of the observations/comments she mentions include:

• Freelancing PHP developers may not feel like attending a group with "the competition"
• Several factors dissuade developers from attending (distance, confusing schedules, timing)
• Some ideas that groups out there could use to attract and keep more members
• Why the groups can make you a better developer
• and some sponsorship/promotion ideas to help grow and better the group

This is a great post packed with some good suggestions and observations. If you're involved at all in your local group (or would like to be) be sure to read it.