Juozas “Joe” Kaziukėnas recently wrote a post on his blog that discusses the current and future state of the PHP framework landscape. This one is going to take a little explaining, have a seat and I’ll get the flip chart. []
Zend Framework community member Pádraic Brady has started his own summaries of the Zend Framework Contributors mailing-list. Click on inside, I’ve got the URL laying around here somewhere. []
Reporting live from the basement of a hotel in Seattle, Washington, here is my report for today on Microsoft’s SQL Server jump In! Camp. []
What do you get when you mix developers from more than 10 different PHP based projects with the Microsoft team that writes/maintains MS SQL Server? I don’t know either, but if you stay tuned this week and I’ll try to describe it to you. []
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For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: the Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday (the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. []
The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the third development release of Zend Framework 2.0, 2.0.0dev3. It is immediately downloadable from the Zend Framework servers: NOTE! This release is not considered of production quality, and is released solely to provide a development snapshot for purposes of testing and research. Use at your own risk. []
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Anthony Wlodarski makes an important point about what one of your first steps should be when considering a framework for your application - be sure to read the source first. In his case, it was the Zend Framework. []
OAuth is great - there's no need to save users' passwords, it's - in theory - a consistent way to interact with other services, and it's hopefully something that your users are familiar and comfortable using. But if you're not just interacting with your users' accounts - for example, your application uses a single account on a service to broadcast messages, or analyze data - getting or renewing the access token can be painful. []
I've been at a number of community run, focused, and attended conferences so far this year. And despite our celebration of the results and benefits of a community, we often forget all the effort that goes into the mechanics and operations behind the scenes. []
In Friday's post, I explained and gave examples of SOLID principles. I left out an example of the Liskov Substitution Principle because it deserves its own post. []