The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup

We don’t have video of the Zend Studio presentation, but Zend has a ton of videos explaining the features and benefits of purchasing a Zend Studio license.

Here’s info on Eclipse and Netbeans, but no cool videos.

Mike Creuzer’s tour of his workspace and an overview of the tools he uses to code & test:

Thanks again to Mike Pavlak and the rest of the folks at Zend for

I don’t normally blog about job openings here. Nobody asked me to post this one, but I saw it in my Twitter feed and thought it was worth sharing.

9Miles Media is a web design agency like so many out there. They make attractive web sites, have a blog, and post links to interesting articles in their Twitter feed. What makes them special is that they’re all teenagers.

Right now, they’re looking for a teen designer who can work at least 5 hours a week writing HTML & CSS. Experience with WordPress, Javascript/jQuery, Django, Python, and PHP are plusses.

I don’t know what they pay, but if you know a teen who likes building sites, this would be a great opportunity for them to get some real-world experience with real clients.

More info available at their blog and don’t forget to follow them on Twitter.

Did you lose interest in Lost? Did singing on American Idol stop being your American dream? Feed your mind with two great podcasts.

Doctype is a weekly video show for web designers and developers. Since this is a video podcast, they’re able to show as well as tell about techniques for building attractive, functional web sites. In the first 13 episodes, Nick and Jim have covered diverse topics ranging from the importance of whitespace to combatting Cross-Site Request Forging.

Each episode runs 10-15 minutes, making it a great way to start the day or a quick watch before bed.

Paul and Marcus just celebrated the 200th episode of the weekly Boagworld.com podcast with a 12 hour live broadcast. They run Headscape, a web design agency in England (my wife loves Paul’s accent) in addition to running the Boagworld.com blog, Audio Boos, and podcast. The weekly episodes provide and hour of amusing banter, horrible jokes, and tips on designing web sites; running an agency; and freelancing. The Audio Boos are Paul’s daily “deep thoughts” lasting under three minutes.

You can enjoy either of these programs in your browser, or subscribe to them in iTunes or your favorite podcatching program. Plug your phone or MP3 player into your car stereo, and they’re a great alternative to the morning zoo or talk radio.