There’s been a significant decision reached recently concerning the future of PHP, in particular for the development of PHP 6. Yesterday, the PHP Internals group reached what seems to be a tentative agreement to postpone implementation of a Unicode PHP engine, and instead focus on developing PHP 5.3 as the main PHP development branch.

There’s been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web’s most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that framework users have come to expect.

CodeWorks 09 has successfully kicked off, and we’d like to announce that Andrei Zmievski will be joining us in the latter part of the tour! Andrei brings his vast PHP expertise to the CW schedule, and is an important addition to our lineup. Andrei will be at the Atlanta, Miami, Washington and NYC locations. We’re glad to have you aboard, Andrei!