A group of winners of PHP elePHPhants or TestFest mugs have been picked at random from the people that contributed the 887 tests during the 2009 PHP TestFest .

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PHP TestFest 2009 Winners

Zend Studio 7.0 Supports New PHP 5.3; Boosts Developer Productivity for Business-Critical PHP Development CUPERTINO, Calif., July 29, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced a major new release of Zend Studio, the company’s leading integrated development environment (IDE) for the dynamic PHP language.

Business-focused components such as: RESTful web services, queuing for asynchronous processes, LDAP, RSS/Atom, and DBUnit test support CUPERTINO, Calif., July 29, 2009 —Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced that the widely successful open source project Zend Framework, which has been downloaded many millions of times, is issuing its fifth update since debuting two years ago and will be available Friday. The new version, Zend Framework 1.9, features PHP 5.3 support, plus new and enhanced community-built professional level features for web application development. “Zend Framework continues to broaden its appeal for professional PHP developers who want to benefit from a cohesive set of best practices, design patterns, and a community-driven project,” said Zeev Suraski, chief technology officer and co-founder at Zend.

The PHP North West Conference has announced its return for a second year, to be held on Saturday 10th October 2009 in Manchester, UK. This is a one-day conference aimed at developers from the local region and further afield, with a deliberately low ticket price to ensure everyone who wants to attend can do so. We combine experienced speakers with some new local talent to bring an event that truly has something for everyone and a great buzz

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PHP North West Conference

The migration from CVS to Subversion is complete.

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Subversion Migration Complete

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service’s explosive growth. Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter

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TweetMeme Migrates to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise Database Subscription Service