Get an introduction to Zend Framework's search component for PHP, Zend_Search_Lucene. This full text search engine is based on the popular Apache Lucene project, a search engine for Java.

Corporate adoption of PHP is on the rise. That means jobs for PHP developers, revenue for Zend Technologies, and maybe some ambiguity in the PHP community as growth makes for strange bedfellows.

MDB2_Schema lets you create and alter database schemas in an RDBMS-independent manner.

Cloud computing shows up in last place in a survey of top CIOs priority lists.

Discover how to use internationalized numbers, currencies and dates/times with the I18N PEAR package.

Template engines have long been the de-facto standard for rendering views in Java web development. Learn why templates are far from ideal and how Groovy builders provide a literate solution for bringing view rendering back into your code.

Build a system to securely talk to your Linux server via email using an email client, GnuPG, procmail, and PHP.

Discover the PHP libraries that help you generate statistics and reports that analyze data from text files, XML, or relational databases.

Discover how to optimize your PHP applications using these straightforward yet powerful benchmarking techniques.

Use PHP to create a secure Internet file-sharing application that employs a database abstraction layer and separates HTML design from PHP programming.

This comprehensive guide discusses where to get, how to install, and how to use the various cryptography packages available to enhance the security of your PHP applications.

Your most valuable SOA assets are worthless if you and your team can't find, use, and manage them. Find out how IBM Rational Asset Manager and IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository's governance solution can help you maximize your SOA investment to meet your business needs.

The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.

Discover how image filters work, how they can spice up your images, how to take advantage of them in PHP, and how to create custom filters that go far beyond the built-in filter effects.

Discover how to generate and manipulate SVG documents dynamically—directly from PHP.

Discover the options for implementing bidirectional communications between browser-based Flash forms and server-side PHP code.

Discover how to use the Reflection API to extract information about PHP classes and execute class methods.

Think PHP developers don't need Silverlight? Think again. By dynamically generating XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), PHP developers can buff their skills with some very cool Microsoft® Silverlight™ tricks, adding a whole new responsive visual element to their PHP pages. This walkthrough goes through the details of building a simple Silverlight app just using XAML code, JavaScript, and PHP.

Visit IBM developerWorks to download IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0 for FREE! The release of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0 supports the full Java EE 5 standard while further simplifying the development of applications and services and greatly improves your productivity. WAS CE is a lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo technology that is available at no cost to you.

How far can XNA take you in game development? Find out what seven experts in the game development industry have to say.