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March is a pretty exciting month for PHP people in Berlin, and around — so here is what we got. Berlin PHP user group Topic: Magento Commerce (webservices, integration, skinning, …), and a little bit of Zend-MVC When: 8:30 PM, 4th March, 2009 Where: Z-Bar, Bergstr. 9, Berlin-Mitte … presented by Manuel Blechschmidt, and of course for the price of nothing. :-) Berlin Flex user group The Berlin Flex user group invited Adobe Platform Evangelist Mihai Corlan to speak about Flex development with a PHP backend, using Zend_Amf and probably Zend Studio....

Disclaimer: I’ve been doing mostly PHP and Zend Framework based projects in the past two years, but the information from this article is general and should be applicable to most setups — even to non PHP-based projects (to a certain extent). Inspired by Padraic’s posting spree the other week, here’s another attempt to provide you with some hands-on usefulness. I’m all open for all feedback, and sorry for the length!...

Those of you who run high traffic websites, have probably tried php-cgi/fcgi down the road. And most of us, have gone back to Apache. But now — actually since the middle of 2007 — there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I read a blog post by Evert Pot’s last night (Apache speed and reverse proxies). Evert noted that he tried to use Lighttpd and php-fcgi, all the infamouse tricks with spawn-fcgi....

A lot of companies moved their web applications, or parts of them, to the cloud in 2008. Some people have had issues, for others (and AWS in particular), it’s been one success story. Because some of us like to focus on the business side and not run servers ourselves, providers like Mosso (a division of Rackspace) and MediaTemple offer scalable webhosting environments available to everyone. Some of them call their offering cloud, others call it grid....

Thanks to Chuck, I’ve been tagged — rejoice. (Edit: I’ve also been tagged by Greg.) Now because I’m a web2 slut, it’ll be hard to tell anyone seven things which they don’t know already, but here we go anyway! Seven things Little did you know, but my middle name is Felix. I’m deadly afraid of rodents. =( By birth, I’m a real commie. I was born in Karl-Marx-City, East-Germany, before the wall came down....