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Coming to you from the beautiful, sunny, hot and apparently very noisy American Airlines Training Centre in Dallas, TX, this week's episode features Marco Tabini, Elizabeth Naramore, Josh Holmes from Microsoft, Cal Evans and somebody's GSM tk… tk… tk… cell phone.

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!

Another Monday—and another episode of our beloved podcast (ok, the podcast comes out every other Monday, but that's going to change soon). In this installment: training your employees, contributing to open-source projects on a (smart) employer's dime, and writing as a means to improve your coding abilities.

In this episode, host Marco and guests Cal Evans, Elizabeth Naramore, Keith Casey, Sean Coates and Beth Tucker Long discover that Skype notifications do not turn themselves off. Oh, and they talk about PHP a bit.

This month's issue will focus on non-relational Databases—learn this interesting alternative and distinct advantage of databases such as SimpleDB and CouchDB .  We have articles on Regex, the Doctrine ORM, the architecture of Adminer, and much more.

Join us today at 1PM ET for a free webcast with php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming author Derick Rethans and learn the ins and outs of time and date programming with your favourite language.

Sean Coates will be joining our CodeWorks Tour, and we are thrilled to have him on board! He will be sharing his expertise with our attendees in Atlanta, Miami, Washington, and New York. Glad to have you with us, Sean!

After much blood, sweat and tears, our popular podcast is back on the air—and you can finally get your fill of news, opinion and pure, unadulterated PHP gossip on the go.

We are thrilled to announce that Matthew Weier O'Phinney will be joining us for CodeWorks! As the Zend Framework Project Lead, he brings his experience and expertise to the CW table. Matthew will be joining us for the second half of the conference (Atlanta, Miami, Washington and NYC.)