I posted a comment on http://blog.digitalstruct.com/2007/12/23/zend-framework-performance-zend... but wanted to go into a little more depth.

When you use Zend_Loader your files are wrapped in conditional statements. These statements prevent APC and all other cache/accelerator programs to have problems properly caching your file.

In some past articles and in a couple places online I advocate using a custom memcache/db based php session handler. Lately I have gotten a few people ask me why use both? The complaint being that using both increases overhead.

One of those articles is http://www.cyberlot.net/improving-php-sessions. The main issue people seem to have is number 3.

There are a number of reasons to use both, if your site uses any type of persistence having the sessions in the database will allow your sessions to live through a reboot while memcache only sessions would not!

The following are from Wikipedia

"A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve a complex issue."

"A software framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project. Various parts of the framework may be exposed through an API."

After reading http://www.tonybibbs.com/ it maybe me think about some of the technologies I have dealt with and its been a lot. Being the only tech person at the company I am at for a while made me the defacto programmer/system admin/tech support/if it is electronic its my job go to guy!

This has lead to some pretty interesting projects with technologies I knew nothing about at the time. Pulling phone stats from our Altigen phone system, Putting together a calendar using data from our Timeforce time clock, Integrating our admin area with Microsoft SBS and LDAP.

Verizon just got beat down by the NY State Attorney General for advertising there wireless service as "unlimited" when in fact caps exists and people where terminated for heavy usage.

Thats great! I hate false advertising however if you browse forums like http://www.dslreports.com you will find the bottom of the barrel claiming caps in general are evil, or that use of there line to download illegal music 24/7 is ok no matter what the ISP terms of service says.

Ok so your at ZendCon and lets face it a majority of the people that go can either afford it because they have decent jobs or they have a cool job that pays for them to go.

Whats the point? It means that maybe ZendCon is not the best place in the world to try and hire unless you have something real to offer.

First off I would like to say hats off to Zend for having such a great conference, it was wonderfull.

Not going to spend any time detailing what talks I went to and what I thought about them, I am sure the php blog world will be full of those instead I will comment on a couple other things

Sitting here in Zendcon in the keynote if your not here everything is being recorded and video and slides will all be online before the end of Nov

After almost missing it due to NWA trying to cancel and reschedule my flight for tommorow night I will be leaving on American tonight.

Looking forward to meeting a bunch of people there, I know I owe a couple people a beer or 2.

So got a new iPhone, get vpn up and running without a problem. Also managed to get the mail client to talk to my exchange server.

The problem? We have a couple users this is not working for it seems if you rename a user in exchange there actual mailbox store keeps the same old name, Every single person who's login does not match there mailbox store name can not use IMAP4 to check there email it just dies for some reason..