Scott A. Wilburn » Zend Framework http://scottwilburn.com PHP/MySQL programmer in the Pacific Northwest Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 My Blog has a new look and feel http://scottwilburn.com/2009/11/01/my-blog-has-a-new-look-and-feel/ http://scottwilburn.com/2009/11/01/my-blog-has-a-new-look-and-feel/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000 scott http://scottwilburn.com/?p=144 Screen shot 2009-11-01 at 9.25.05 PM

My long-neglected blog now has a new look and feel, plus I have added new social networking features so that it better integrates into Facebook and Twitter. I plan on doing more posts about PHP and Zend Framework to make my blog more interesting to read.

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I had evaluated the Zend Framework about a year and a half ago, just shortly after it’s version 1.0 release.  At that time, I was disappointed with the performance of the MySQL adaptor in the framework and decided not to use it as my MVC framework.  But now Zend Framework has had some time to mature and I am again looking at using it for all my future development.  Since it is very modular, I can choose which components to use and which components I can extend on my own.  The other tool I plan on using is Zend Studio for Eclipse.  I don’t currently use an IDE, and I think it is time that I start using one.

All in all, it was definitely a worthwhile convention.  I hope to return for ZendCon 2009.

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