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The “official” PHP web development framework nears its first release.
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The codename for Visual Basic 10, that’s what! Microsoft is still working to finalize the upcoming VB 9 release, but it has developed a wishlist for VB 10, which will return to the language’s dynamic roots by bringing it to the Dynamic Language Runtime.
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The next major release of GWT is almost ready for release. It features smaller script sizes, quicker startup times, a handful of powerful, new widgets, and the ImageBundle, which combines multiple images into a single file to boost performance.
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In an exclusive podcast interview, Dojo announces that its Dojo Offline library for supporting offline storage in browser-based web applications has already been updated to use the just-announced Google Gears offline storage engine by default.
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In a deal worth US$280m, US media giant CBS has acquired the music-based social networking site Last.fm.
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There’s some serious design inspiration to be found in this list of sites, books, and get-off-your-butt activities. (thanks jamesbooker)
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Rapid-fire screenshot reviews of client-side image galleries and related scripts. (thanks jamesbooker)
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WHAT-WG member Lachlan Hunt summarizes (at great length) the current situation in the W3C HTML Working Group.
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Eclipsed by the amazing “Street View”, Google simultaneously launched a developer preview of its new Mapplets API. The API enables mashups and overlays to integrate directly into the Google Maps site, so users can mix and match their favourites.
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June 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Thanks for those links.
Should we hope getting some articles about Zend Framework? :)
June 4th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Anybody else dissapointed about the new ZendFramework? it does not even support scaffolding or pagination or other common tasks :( which are easy with Cake or CI
June 5th, 2007 at 3:27 am
@pixelsoul:
I’m not in the least bit disappointed with Zend Framework. The tasks which it was designed to do it does very well and doesn’t impose any more of it’s library on you than what you need. You’re free to pick and choose the parts you want, which I find very, very nice (especially when integrating with existing projects).
And like either of the frameworks you mentioned, ZFW 1.0 isn’t so much the destination as it is a milestone on the journey. As the framework is adopted people will suggest new classes and functionality to be incorporated into a later release, and that could certainly include both the features you mentioned :)
I don’t know about CI but Cake has been around for about 3 years now, whereas ZFW has been under developement for under a year. Give it time :)
June 5th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
It’s not that I am dissapointed with Zend framework, it’s just that there are better alternatives at them moment, namely, symfony framework. It’s got scaffolding, code generators, and a decent amount of documentation.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I like the structure of ZF.
Also I like the fact that this FW is official :) And can easily become de-facto standard..
I very very like CakePHP though.
June 15th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Zend_Layout is missing…