Note: This post was tested on Ubuntu 11.04. If you don’t use Ubuntu, it may or may not work for you. Public key authentication Instead of entering a password for the SSH connection, you can also use public key authentication. This is easier, because you can use the same key...

php|architect has published my article about combining jQuery with Zend_Json_Server into a simple monitoring dashboard to showcase JSON-RPC, a protocol using remote procedure calls, a bit like XML-RPC did. The powerful combination of both Javascript and the Zend_Json_Server component enables you to create responsive apps with near real-time data.

I am happy to announce that our book on building Zend Framework Web Services (published by PHP|Architect) is finally out! More info can be found here and you can grab a copy here. Enjoy (I hope) !

Last Friday I presented a talk on Comet and PHP during the official track of the Dutch PHP Conference 2011. Since Slideshare did not convert my slides as it should, I decided to add the links in the slides here… for your convenience. You can also download the full OpenOffice...