PHP Architect:: Andi Gutman’s Talk
I tuned into the webcast, but it was cut short by technical difficulties. Ahhh, technology: you have to love it. Anyways, I was excited to hear about the progress Zend and its collaborators have made. The initial presentation Andi gave whetted my appetite. They had some interesting features in the framework and I liked the fact that they want to keep it simple and target the 20% of code that gets used 80% of the time. You can’t incorporate everything into a framework, or else it ends up bloated and worthless.
Today, Andi briefly talked about PHP’s main competitor(s), whom he feels is .NET. He also talked about the difference between the Zend Collaboration project and the Zend framework. He said the collaboration encompassed the framework and essentially consisted of three parts:
- The aforementioned Framework
- Enrich the development tools:: Eclipse IDE
- Best Practices:: Enable authors to contribute more content
Hopefully, they will post the complete talk on the site soon so I can hear the rest of what he had to say. Interested to find out when a version will be out.