Zend Announces 10th Annual PHP Conference Focused on Mobile and Web Innovation

CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Zend, the PHP Company, today announced the 10^th annual ZendCon, the world's premier PHP conference, marking a decade of global community-building powered by PHP.  Market dynamics including the rise of mobile and demand for rapid, iterative application delivery have accelerated enterprise PHP adoption. PHP, which fuels more than 240 million applications and Web sites, is at the heart of forward-looking Web and mobile workloads as well as application innovation and disruption.

"ZendCon, during the past decade, has become the ultimate resource for learning and sharing PHP best practices," said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder, Zend. "No other event offers one-stop access to PHP thought leaders, developers and luminaries tackling such a diverse set of topics, from continuous delivery and application life cycle to information security in PHP and mobilizing your development workflow. PHP is the 'sweet spot' where disruption and innovation -- including web, mobile and cloud -- intersect."

ZendCon 2014 will feature three conference tracks: "PHP Best Practices and Tooling," "Continuous Delivery and DevOps" and "Application Architecture – APIs, Mobile and Cloud."

Attendees will learn the latest tips and tricks for creating high-quality PHP applications, test drive best practices for high velocity application delivery and more. Sessions include:

• An Instagram API in Minutes – Use Apigility, an API builder and engine, to create an API for uploading images and creating streams of image URLs for a mobile application.
• Building Apps for Tomorrow's Connected Devices in 30 Minutes or Less – Perform rapid prototyping, development and continuous delivery at the PaaS layer on IBM's Bluemix.
• Hours-Long Deployments to Continuous Delivery – Learn the in-the-trenches story of how one team went from an intensive, hours-long deployment process to delivering and deploying an application continuously.

Registration for the 10^th annual ZendCon, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, is now open. Take advantage of Summer Special pricing for ZendCon 2014 registration, with savings of up to $550, available until August 31, 2014. Click here for details.

ZendCon 2014 attendees can also receive a 50 percent discount on PHP and Zend Framework certification exams taken during the conference. Click here for details.

Conference sponsors include IBM, Rackspace, SensioLabs, Engine Yard and OSSCube.

About Zend Technologies

Zend partners with businesses to rapidly deliver modern apps across mobile and cloud. Zend helped establish the PHP language, which today powers over 200 million applications and web sites. The company uniquely delivers a one-stop shop solution for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. Zend continuous delivery is based on agile development, code protection, release automation, server management, consulting, training, and PHP certification. Zend solutions are deployed at more than 40,000 companies, including NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, Bell Helicopter, France Telecom and other leading brands worldwide. Learn more at www.zend.com.

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