The Zend DevCloud was released at ZendCon as a technology preview. I do a lot of my development work on the DevCloud now and I have my stories. But I’m interested in hearing yours. If you are using DevCloud for serious development work I would like to hear about it. We would like to put [...]
Author: Kevin Schroeder
Jason Grimes has posted an article showing how to use Doctrine 2 with Zend Framework 2.
He uses my tutorial as the starting point which enables him to concentrate on the Doctrine integration rather than the irrelevant details about setting a ZF2 application which is excellent.
He walks through 6 steps in order to do the integration:
This article shows how to set up and use Doctrine 2 in Zend Framework 2, by extending Rob’s Getting Started tutorial to use Doctrine instead of Zend_Db.
- Start with Akrabat’s tutorial
- Install Doctrine modules
- Configure the Album module to use Doctrine
- Create the Album entity
- Update the Album controller to use Doctrine instead of Zend_Db
- That’s it!
I highly recommend having a read if you’re at all interested in using Doctrine 2 with Zend Framework 2.

Author: Rob…
I’m thinking about posting a poll in a couple of days about software communities and I’m looking for some input on some of the responses. I have my set of possible responses, but I’d like some input before posting the poll. So, if you have some ideas, please post them in the comments. The question [...]
Author: Kevin Schroeder
IBM has quietly been sneaking many incredible features to DB2 on IBM i. This webinar will explore some of the more useful new features that can make data mining or general DB2 usage a breeze. An IBM speaker has been invited to join the discussion for some first-hand perspectives of the new DB2 features.
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One of the problems that anyone who has taught a programming class will know is that the worst part of the class isn’t bored students, inane questions or poor material, but, rather, getting started. I delivered Zend’s training for 3 years (myself among several others) and I can say, without reservation, that one of the [...]
Author: Kevin Schroeder