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I’ve started a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies attain superior results with PHP, Zend Framework, IBM i, and related technologies such as Zend Server, DB2, and the new PHP toolkit. We...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › ZF2 and DB2 for IBM i
I’d like to address questions about DB2 support in Zend Framework 2.x. Because I helped create the IBM i-friendly DB2 adapter for Zend Framework 1.x, I’ve followed the development of a similar adapter...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Using procedures and...
The open source PHP Toolkit enables PHP applications to call procedures (functions) that are defined within RPG service programs on IBM i. (For more information on the toolkit, see my toolkit...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › How to prevent Easycom from...
Several clients have asked me how to prevent their older Easycom components from loading, now that they’ve migrated from the Easycom toolkit to the new open source IBM i Zend toolkit. Here are...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Why PHP on IBM i
A colleague asked me for a catchy quote about why IBM i aficionados should choose PHP. Some thoughts to start with: 1. With PHP you can build your dreams. 2. PHP lets you start simply and grow. 3. PHP...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Zend Server for IBM i...
If you’re looking for Zend Server for IBM i, its updates or hotfixes (such as the recent SOAP hot fix), or the latest official PHP Toolkit release, try the new Zend Server download page for IBM i. The...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Tell me how a conference...
Have you ever learned something you really needed to know, made a valuable contact, discovered a better way to do things, decided on a future direction, as a result of attending a conference? Have you...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Technical conferences make...
With COMMON’s conference starting in little over a week, I’ve written a blog post to show how managers can achieve a compelling return on investment (ROI) by sending their staff to technical...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › March updates to PHP...
All are invited to try and enjoy this update before it’s officially packaged: XMLSERVICE 1.7.8 and PHP Toolkit 1.5.0 My favorite part is in the performance improvements. There are also bug fixes to...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › High-performance PHP on IBM...
For the first time, I’m teaching how to Let Your PHP applications fly on IBM i, including how to configure Zend Server for performance, diagnose bottlenecks, leverage unique IBM i performance tools,...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › PHP Performance on IBM i:...
This Tuesday, learn how to Let Your PHP applications fly on IBM i. Busy? You can attend while getting your work done, with three one-hour class segments separated by breaks. “Our process now runs...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Performance Tweet chat...
Join me for two events this week sponsored by COMMON, a Users Group: Monday, Feb. 24: Free Tweet Chat about optimizing PHP Performance on IBM i. Use hash tag #COMMONChat. 12pm Central time. Thursday,...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › IBM i safe from OpenSSL...
Clients have asked me whether their IBM i servers may be vulnerable to hackers due to the widely publicized OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. The answer is no. IBM i is safe from this bug, which is present only...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › See you at COMMON, May 4-7,...
Hope you enjoy these four videos (plus an outtake) I made with fellow speakers Dawn May and Charles Guarino to promote this year’s COMMON conference to be held in Orlando, Florida, from May 4-7, 2014,...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › ZendCon+Tutorial discount...
ZendCon, the premier PHP conference, October 27-30, 2014, in Santa Clara, California, has a discount expiring August 15. When you register, be sure to include the tutorial day (Oct. 27). If you already...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Find the Technology Refresh...
I recently needed to know if a client’s IBM i 7.1 system had Technology Refresh 4 (TR4) installed. If it did, I could use the relatively new INSERT with remote SUBSELECT technique, which allows a...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Zendcon 2014 promo video...
About Zendcon: Premier PHP conference Oct. 27-30, 2014, Santa Clara, California Dedicated IBM i track Special day of IBM i workshop tutorials (Oct. 27; choose “conference/tutorials” when you...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Save your fingers when...
In Batch PHP I showed how to call PHP from a command line. For example, with Zend Server 6 or 7 on IBM i, one would launch a PASE command line using the command CALL QP2TERM, or launch QShell using...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Zend Framework 2...
Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) provides optimization techniques that are often overlooked by published performance tests. One excellent source for such techniques is a presentation by Gary Hockin. I was...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Free PHP still exists on IBM i
I’ve been hearing from people confused about Zend Server editions on IBM i. Yes, Community Edition was removed with Zend Server 7/8, but Zend replaced that with the no-charge “Basic” edition. The...
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