It's May - the best month of the year! Thankfully, Spring has returned with the birds and bees, and there's no better time for a relaxing cruise. Zend Solution Consultant Ed Kieltinski is in the driver's seat and will pop the hood of the all new fuel-efficient Zend Server and take us for a spin in Zend's latest model.

We'll take an exploration of the complete Zend software stack and how to optimize your efforts with PHP applications. Open source example applications like MagentoCommerce, OSCommerce, Joomla, Sugarcrm, Drupal, will be used to showcase how to tackle common and complex problems.

Both the open source Zend stack and the advanced Professional Edition solutions will be shown to address poor performance, troubleshooting problems, identifying bottlenecks, slow databases, integrating PHP into Java, and improving MVC Zend Framework apps. Zend Server CE/PE, PDT/Studio, and Zend Framework will also be looked at.

And join us at TGI Friday's at 56th and Lexington after the meeting for complimentary food and drink, thanks to Zend.

Thank you to IBM for providing a great presentation space in Midtown Manhattan. As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public.