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Well this was a fast release! I promise 0.4 will be a lot longer wait, and probably the experience will inspire me to write more regular articles. Changes for 0.3 include:
- Added links for digg, furl, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, technorati, etc... on each article page.
- Changed code highlighting class from Pear Text::Highlight to GeSHi
- Refactored the models a little bit with better error reporting. Not completely the way I want them yet, mostly due to the limitations of the older Zend Framework I'm working on.
- Fixed various small bugs
0.4 well be a big change, upgrading to Zend Framework 1.0. Because of the large differences between 1.0 and 0.8, there will be alot of code refactored (for the better).
Codeangel 0.2
I am calling this release 0.2, It's mainly bug fixes and a few features additions I have been putting off. Changes can be summerized:
- Changed homegrown js to the jquery library
- fixed a bug with md5 files on the download page(thanks to David for pointing it out)
- Completely changed my article linking method, the old way was a failed experiment.
- Made warnings to check when my posts weren't valid XML.
- truncated lists of tags and archives in the sidebar.
plans for 0.3 include adding links for dig this, technorati, delicious and what not for the articles and replacing the code highlighting lib with GeSHi. In 0.5 I plan on refactoring the app to work with Zend Framework 1.0 and to include things like cacheing and logging. Also I hope to replace some of my home-grown components with Zend Framework's components.
Zend Framework 1.0 is released
The Zend Framework 1.0 has been released! I have been keeping an eye on/involved in this project since I first heard about it almost 2 years ago. My involvement started out learning the framework and providing feedback. Lately I have joined in the cause to help out with documentation and will continue to do so from now on.
This very blog has been written in Zend Framework. It's 0.8 and I need to upgrade it and refactor it, and I don't have time with my current projects. It will happen soon though!
If your a web application developer, you really have to try Zend Framework out, it has many libraries for fast application development, but allows for much more degree of control than most other frameworks, making it more enterprise family.
The Zend Framework is more a collection of libraries ready for your use, It also gives plenty of abstract classes and interfaces to add on or change the framework to meet your needs. The most notable components of the Zend Framework are it's MVC implementation, a PHP port of Lucene, and a stand alone PDF class. And that's not all!
So give the Zend Framework a look and try it out for your next project! A word before you judge to early, one of the missing components that we couldn't get in to the 1.0 release was a partial view renderer, If you see this as a loss, don't worry it'll most likely be out by the next realease.