Several people have pointed out to me recently
that I haven't blogged since early May, prior to attending
php|tek. Since then, I've built up a
huge backlog of blog entries, but had zero time to write any of them.
The backlog and lack of time has an easy explanation: my change of roles
from Architect to Project Lead on the Zend Framework team. While the
change is a welcome one, it's also been much more demanding on my time than
I could have possibly envisioned. Out of the gate, I had to finish up the
1.8 release, and move immediately into planning and execution of the
1.9 release -- while learning the ropes of my new position, and
continuing some of my previous development duties. Add a couple of
conferences (php|tek and DPC) into
the mix, and you can begin to see the issues.
At the time I write this, ZF currently stands at version 1.9.1, with 1.9.2
just around the corner. A few unsung bits about the 1.9 series:
- I updated the coding standards slightly to include naming conventions
for abstract classes and interfaces
- I finally added in documentation standards (at the prompting of our two
most active documentation translators).
- The test suite no longer uses output buffering, which means you can see
test status in realtime, and it no longer segfaults after using all
available RAM.
I'm currently in planning mode, and hope to start spinning out some articles
and tutorials in the coming weeks (I posted one today), as well as finally
posting a roadmap for ZF 2.0 (hint: there will be at least a 1.10 first).
I've been playing a bit with document-based databases such as CouchDB, as
well as with Dependency Injection, Doctrine, and pub-sub architectures. I
hope to blog about some of my experiments in the coming weeks.
This autumn, I'll be speaking at two separate conferences. I'll be joining
php|a's CodeWorks for the East
Coast tour, starting in Atlanta, and moving on through Miami, Washington,
D.C., and New York City. A few weeks later, I'll be at ZendCon, giving back-to-back tutorials on
Zend Framework, and a regular session on domain models in MVC frameworks.
If you don't hear from me, and need to contact me, you can find me on
twitter, freenode under my registered nick (if you don't know it, you
shouldn't be contacting me), or the various framework mailing lists. If I'll
be in your area during the autumn conference season, please look me up!
