I’ve ditched the Zend Framework on a project. In it’s place, Symfony has allowed me to recreate all the work with the Zend Framework over several months in a matter of 4 hours.
The Zend Framework proved to be:
too piecemeal
incomplete – arguably this is represented by the version number; but this applied to [...]
I decided to make list of things of which I’ve been a part of accomplishing over the last twelve months at IntelliContact not any without assistance, and some for which I’m only happy to have had a role.
From 3500-7200+ customers
From one database cluster to four
From eight mail servers to 12
Creating and maturing the development processing [...]
We’re engaging in a spike at IntelliContact this week. Some of the projects people are investigating (none of which are sure to be finished by the end of this week):
Mac/Yahoo Desktop Widget
Cleanup of old files in codebase
Consistent mail sending for messages other than broadcasts
Firefox/Thunderbird Extension for showing message stats
Refactoring message sending to show customers [...]
I’ve received some fatalistic responses to my last installment related to what I see as problems with PHP teachings. In particular, I fear we teach people to write applications in ways that are reckless to the fact that these individuals likely read no more than 1-2 PHP books and move on to start writing [...]
