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This is the introduction to our PHP 5.3 Certification training, recorded by one of Zend’s great instructors, Doug Bierer. This Test Prep: Zend PHP 5.3 Certification TestPrep course prepares experienced PHP programmers for the challenge of passing the PHP 5.3 certification exam and achieving the status of Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE).

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PHP Case Study: SonyBMG Launches MyPlay on Drupal

January 11, 2011 5:57 am
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Myplay.com is a redesign and re-branding of Sony’s Musicbox site which showcases SonyBMG’s artists, providing free access to their videos, music and photos. Users can create lists of their favorite artists as well as review their music and embed widgets of their favorite artist’s content into other sites. Sony Musicbox was originally implemented by the Lullabots who provided the base framework for this redesign. Thanks to their diligence and teaching as well as excellent tools provided by Earl Miles (Panels 2, Views and Nodequeue), three people (Suzi Arnold, Jerad Bitner and David Burns) were able to accomplish this task in just over a month.

This case study documents how the site is put together, and provides implementation details on how we’ve combined numerous important contributed modules to build a “next generation” Drupal site.
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Corvette America is a complete resource for Corvette interiors, parts and accessories for every Corvette model from 1953 to the present. The company’s manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania boasts the nation’s largest aftermarket inventory, high tech equipment and processes, fast order fulfillment and competitive prices. To maintain market leadership and retain loyal customers, Corvette America knew it had to differentiate itself based on superior service. They turned to their IT group, IBM and Zend for a solution.
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Simplification drives organizational and technological agility, reduces systemic and development errors, reduces delivery time-lines, and reduces maintenance cost. Matt Merchant, CTO, GE Corporate, will discuss GE Corporate’s approach to simplification, combining Lean SixSigma, Agile software development methodologies and Open Source Software to drive productivity up and cost out.

Ken Harris is responsible for developing and maintaining Shaklee’s technological infrastructure, supporting the communications, information and operations systems that connect all divisions of the Company. Before joining Shaklee in 2005, Mr. Harris was the senior vice president, chief information officer at Gap, Inc. for six years, served as the senior vice president, chief information officer at Nike, and worked at PepsiCo for 10 years in a variety of operations and technology leadership positions including senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief information officer. Mr. Harris holds graduate degrees in both Management Information Technology and Accounting and a CPA in public accounting from the state of Colorado. He was recognized in 2004 as one of Computerworld’s “Premier 100 IT Leaders” and as one of Executive Technology’s “Power 50 Retailers.”

InternetNews.com: How to Build an Agile Dev Team – The GE Way

November 3, 2010 10:19 pm
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November 3, 2010 By Sean Michael Kerner Sean Michael Kerner – InternetNews.com

Building software in a waterfall approach where there is a big milestone release at the end of the process, isn’t conducive to success in the modern world, according to top executives from the NYSE and GE.

Speaking at the Zendcon PHP developers conference, Robert Kerner, vice-president at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) told developers in no uncertain terms, that the waterfall approach doesn’t work.

Kerner joined the NYSE a week before a major new software platform was set to roll out, after two years of development and millions of dollars of investment. The platform never saw the light of day, as Kerner killed the effort as it didn’t meet expectations and instead set out to build a new platform using an agile iterative approach to releases.
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Watch an interactive illustration of a day in a life of a company using Zend Platform. This specific story is about radioio, a popular internet radio site receiving over a million hits. Radioio run’s its business on PHP and Zend Platform.

http://www.zend.co.jp/products/platform/flash/

Like many companies, Digi salespeople relied on homegrown processes to manage customer. These methods led to common problems associated with sales information that is not centralized. Digi faced challenges understanding the status of opportunities, inputting data manually into multiple systems, tracking proposal approval status and lines activation status, and tracking the success of marketing campaigns.

“Management did not have a complete view ofwhat was going on in the sales cycle,” said Christian Schutt, Head of Operations at Digi. “We needed real-time visibility into what was happening with accounts and better sharing of information to make sure our sales teams were on the same page.
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Earlier this month, the Executive Office of the President of the United States of America relaunched their website, Whitehouse.gov, using Drupal. This week three members of the White House new media team presented at the Washington, DC Drupal users group. New media director Macon Phillips, deputy director of technology David Cole, and creative director Nik Lo Bue talked about their use of Drupal.
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Virgin is a brand so monumental, so alive with personality that its corporate home on the web needed to be more than a base of information. It needed to be an open community that brought together the energy and interaction of fans, the ever-developing Virgin companies, and conversations with Richard Branson himself.

ROKKAN unveils Virgin.com, a fully redesigned site alive with stories, conversations, and videos, all of which are continually being updated, commented on, and shared. It leverages Facebook Connect for fast, simple registration, but with a community all inclusive of the Virgin brand. The site is also a hub of connectivity for Virgin’s many distinct but related companies, more than 200 in all. In short, visitors to Virgin.com, whether passionate fans of the brand or simply curious, find not a website – but a world.

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