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On the IBM developerWorks site today there's a new tutorial from Daniel Krook showing you how to use the IBM Cloud product to set up a development environment based on a Red Hat Enterprise server distribution with Zend Server as the PHP environment.

On IBM's developerWorks there's a recent article from Vikram Vaswani about using the oEmbed tool to pull content into your site from sources like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

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IBM Developerworks: "A key benefit of virtualization is the ability to consolidate multiple workloads onto a single computer system.

This consolidation yields savings in power consumption, capital expense, and administration costs. The degree of savings depends on the ability to overcommit hardware resources such as memory, CPU cycles, I/O, and network bandwidth."

The IBM developerWorks site has posted a very high-level overview of one of the most popular PHP frameworks currently in use the Zend Framework.

This is part one of their introductory series looking at the framework and what it has to offer.

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IBM developerWorks has just published the first article in a series that Mark Nusekabel, Yan Li Mu and I wrote about our experience migrating a large PHP and MySQL application to DB2.

In the four part series we look at preparation, switching databases, porting code, and finally deploying the application.

This first installment covers the [...]

IBM Developerworks: "One of the more recent areas is virtual networking. Early implementations of platform virtualization created virtual NICs, but today, larger portions of the network are being virtualized, such as switches that support communication among VMs on a server or distributed among servers."

IBM Developerworks: "Porting legacy Perl to Python can be a daunting task. In this article, learn some of the theory behind dealing with legacy code, including what not to do."

IBM Developerworks: "Summary: As the kernel and user space exist in different virtual address spaces, there are special considerations for moving data between them."