Stuart Herbert, PHP community member and all around nice guy, has been posting a series of posts on his blog based on his PHPUK talk “Beyond Frameworks”. Given the number of posts involved, one must wonder when Stuart sleeps. Click on in, I’ve got links…

As Andi Gutmans presented at his php|tek keynote, and reinforced by IBM in their showing of QEDWiki, there is indeed a place in PHP for the Rapid Application Development. As part of Andi’s keynote, he spoke about component architectures and showed a quick demo of what that might look like in the future. He did so with a proof of concept called phpBlox. Now, don’t get too excited, it looks nice and worked for the demo, but we are still only at the beginning of the Road to RAD.