http://blogs.zend.com Opinions and viewpoints of Zend employees Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:39:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brad So we didn't take top honors last night, but being up against some awesome competitors, we held our own with a shared Productivity Award for Zend Framework in the Libraries, Frameworks, and Components category and had a lot of fun at the awards presentation. In addition to that, Wil & I ... http://blogs.zend.com/2008/03/06/zend-framework-wins-jolt-productivity-award-wil-brads-antics-tonight-in-sf/ Yossi Leon Zend Studio for Eclipse is just around the corner. Very soon we are planning to release the product after few beta cycles were we got thousands of feedbacks. We've been reading every feedback,  tried to reproduce the bugs, analyze the feature request and come up with a better product based on ... http://blogs.zend.com/2008/01/16/zend-studio-for-eclipse/ Wil The Zend Framework team is delighted to announce that the official release process for Zend Framework 1.5 has begun! Since the 1.5 is a substantial release, we've decided to kick things off with a preview release to put all the new functionality in the community's hands as early as possible. ... http://blogs.zend.com/2008/01/10/the-zend-framework-15-release-process-is-officially-underway/ Brad Congratulations are due to the entire Zend Framework community and especially to all contributors to the project. We've been selected as finalists for a Jolt Award in the Libraries, Frameworks, and Components category, standing among five other excellent contenders. Zend Framework 1.0.3 was selected as a finalist for the 2007 ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/12/21/zend-framework-finalist-for-jolt-award/ Wil And to continue the well known quote, '. . .That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' To very roughly paraphrase Shakespeare here: substance trumps the superficial. So this is my roundabout way of announcing that we've decided to name the next release of Zend ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/12/08/whats-in-a-name/ Wil You can file fav.or.it's new RSS reader and blogging platform near the top of my xmas wishlist. Currently in private beta, we've gotten some very compelling glimpses of this very well designed and useful application already, and I for one can't wait to get my hands on it. 'Remind me: why ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/12/06/enter-the-blogosphere-with-favorit-powered-by-zend-framework/ Brad Zend Framework 1.0 launched at the beginning of July and since then we've had two mini-releases (1.01 & 1.02), with 1.03 coming up in a week or so. Congratulations are due to the entire Zend Framework community who has risen to the challenge of embracing, promoting, and most importantly, ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/11/22/zend-framework-launch-zendcon-roadmap-and-zf-11/ Yossi Leon What's the best way to learn about a new product? To see a short movie about the different features! I've created bunch of videos about the different features of Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta. Each video is 3-4 minutes long, so you don't need to spend the entire afternoon on that. Check them ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/10/17/videos-videos-and-some-more-videos/ Yossi Leon Last week was Zend/PHP Conference 2007 which was very successful with the launch of the exciting Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta. The next up-coming event, which is more open source rather than commercial like, is OS Summit Asia 2007. It's the first time for this kind of event, in terms of Apache ... http://blogs.zend.com/2007/10/17/os-summit-asia-2007-the-next-exciting-event/ Mark de Visser Harold introducing the Business Application Modernization concept, including the 4 dynamics that all the modernized applications share: Extend, Unlock, Exploit, Leverage. He gave examples like Fiat's dealer order management, InTicketing, bwin Games, Accuweather and Tagged to illustrate the trend. http://blogs.zend.com/2007/10/09/keynote-in-progress/