The Zend_Auth component, part of the Zend Framework, provides a mechanism for authenticating users in your web apps. Jason Gilmore will show you how use this robust component to give users the ability to create their own accounts.

Want to use Spring but don't want to use Java? Spring for Python is an Inversion of Control container for Python with several additional features such as aspect oriented programming. To learn more read on.

Creating the next great community-driven Website? Using the Zend Framework, you can validate and manage your users' file uploads with ease. Read on to learn how.

In the last part of Marc's series we put all the pieces together and write a simple Hello World Application.

Need to take some of the frustration out of troubleshooting your web services? Read on to find out how.

Have you ever struggled to communicate architectural information with stakeholders? Do you recognize that presenting data and information is a core competency of an architect? Consider putting these proven principles and patterns to use in your next presentation.

Marc Plotz takes us further into his custom, lightweight MVC Framework.

Want to build your own Twitter app? Read on to figure out what it takes to get started.

Looking to start using Spring.NET to provide Dependency Injection in your next project? In this article I will show the performance impact of Spring.NET Dependency Injection and compare it to performing the same functions natively.

What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?

Caching can greatly improve performance but it can also lull you into a false sense of security. In some cases it can even make the performance worse. If you haven't already, then now is the time to learn the issues and limitations of caching so that you can truly improve performance.

The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.

Create sophisticated route finding features using the Google Maps API's powerful GDirections class!

Create compelling location-based web sites by providing users with the ability to calculate distances between points on a Google Map!

Explore how to process Axiom and how to serialize Axiom into an output stream. Also learn to use the Axiom APIs for processing SOAP.

Build RSS feeds with the Zend Framework and profit from their publication using Google AdSense for Feeds!

Discover the practice of continuous integration and several of the most popular tools, including Apache's Continuum, Cruise Control (CC), and Hudson, which effectively implement this concept.

Apache AXIOM (AXis2 Object Model) is a pull-based, XML Infoset-compliant object model that supports on-demand building of the object tree. Learn the basis of Axiom and how to use it.

Are you finding it hard to obtain funding to finish building out your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology stack? You may have heard about the Open Source GlassFish Java 5 EE Application Server, but did you know that there is a GlassFish ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Project that integrates the Open ESB Project? See what it can do for you.

Integrate Twitter into your Zend Framework-powered website with ease. Just use the Zend_Service_Twitter component!

Follow these steps for smoother updates of minor releases and less painful migrations to major releases.

The votes are in and the winners have been selected. See what products and technology our readers have chosen to be the best in their respective category.

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) allows developers to achieve greater modularity in their applications by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. Explore basic AOP concepts and their implementation using Spring.Net, a popular open source application framework by walking through several examples.

Learn how to create a pure Java class for reading Microsoft Excel with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.

Gain a clear understanding of Axis2's static data hierarchy, how it's configured, and how to work with it.