Zend Gets Another $20 Million
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Zend wins IVA and Red Herring’s Best Software Startup award
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006Yesterday, Zend won Israel Venture Association (IVA) and Red Herring's Best Software Startup award for the year 2006. Those of you who know the Israeli hitech landscape can understand what an amazing feat this is; For those who don't, Zend (and two other startups in other hitech areas) ...
Boston PHP and the Zend Framework
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006I'm visting Boston PHP this Thursday to speak about the Zend Framework. I'll most likely focus on the topics presented in the Zend Framework Tutorial. The meeting begins at 6:30 PM at Optaros. There's a map if you need help finding it. I hope to see ...
Zend Framework License
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006Good news - the Zend Framework License is now compatible with the GPL. This means you can use the ZF for your own GPL-licensed PHP project. From Andi's email: We have decided to change the license of the Zend Framework from a PHP-like license, to the...
Get Your Pocket PHP Reference and Help Hurricane Relief Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!
Friday, March 17th, 2006php|architect has announced the publication of php|architect's Pocket PHP Reference, a handy guide to every function in PHP, inclusive of syntax, extension and description. It's a perfect companion for all your coding work, perfect for looking up function syntax in a pinch It's been a while since I personally contributed code ...
Zend Framework Tutorial
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006I'm a little late announcing this, but I wrote a quick Zend Framework Tutorial for php|architect over the weekend. It was written in haste and likely contains some errors as a result, but I've arranged to have the tutorial updated frequently. Therefore...
Zend Framework Preview
Saturday, March 4th, 2006A preview of the Zend Framework is now available: ZendFramework-0.1.1.tar.gz ZendFramework-0.1.1.zip Please download it, read the manual, and give it a go. If you find any problems, please report them, so they can be fixed. Congrats to ...
New Zend Studio plugins released Developing and Implementing Applications
Sunday, February 12th, 2006Two new plugins were officially released today by Zend. First, a plugin that allows integration of PHP code snippets from zend.com's code gallery, directly into Adobe GoLive. That replicates a feature that's built into Zend Studio 4.0, and makes it available (for free) in Adobe's HTML WYSIWIG editor, quite a ...
Zend Framework Webcast
Friday, December 2nd, 2005I just finished listening to the Zend Framework Webcast, hosted by php|architect. The recording will be available soon, and I'll update this post to provide a link as soon as it is. The core focus of the framework is Extreme Simplicity. In order to ac...
Zend Framework Update
Saturday, November 12th, 2005A few weeks ago, I posted my Zend Framework Wishlist. Most of the things I mentioned were off the top of my head, but I think it got people (including me) thinking about how we can make some security problems easier to solve. It also attracted the atte...
Zend Framework Wishlist
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005As has been widely discussed, Zend announced its PHP Framework this week. I wasn't invited to participate, so I think I can offer an unbiased opinion. The primary misconception seems to be that there is no code, and this isn't true. Although Zend think...
Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!
Monday, September 12th, 2005It's been a while since I personally contributed code to this project, but a bunch of my most-wanted features are now in there, most notably multilevel code completion and native web services support. Multilevel code completion means that almost always you'd get code completion for objects, even if they're return values ...
New Zend Studio plugins released
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Two new plugins were officially released today by Zend. First, a plugin that allows integration of PHP code snippets from zend.com's code gallery, directly into Adobe GoLive. That replicates a feature that's built into Zend Studio 4.0, and makes it available (for free) in Adobe's HTML WYSIWIG editor, quite a ...
Zend PHP Conference and Expo
Monday, August 29th, 2005Zend has just released the full schedule for their PHP Conference and Expo taking place this October. It's going to be quite a bit different than the typical PHP conference, because it appears to cater to big businesses (and PHP developers employed by...
