framework

The Midgard framework has posted a new release recently which allows for PHP apps to be deployed to the (linux) desktop.»»»

The Zend Framework team has just announced a new stable release. Version 1.10.6 is now available from the Zend Framework site.»»»

At the ConFoo Conference this week, Paul Jones has released the stable version 1.0.0 of his Solar PHP framework. This stable version comes after 5 years of development and many contributions by others from the PHP community.»»»

Symfony Live is the only official Symfony conference in the world, organized by Sensio, the company behind symfony. The schedule is full of big names from the symfony community such as Fabien Potencier, Dustin Whittle, Dennis Benkert, Jonathan Wage, Kris Wallsmith and special guest Zend Framework project lead Matthew Weier O'Phinney.»»»

With the symfony BugHuntDay just around the corner next saturday 14th of november, it is time to have a look at what you can do to prepare yourself. Luckily, one of the PHPBenelux crew members, Thijs Feryn, has posted a tutorial on his weblog on what you can do to prepare for the BugHuntDay.»»»

Last week the news was published that two of the core developers of the CakePHP project had split and yesterday those developers launched their new project: Lithium. Lithium is a fork of the CakePHP 3 branch, fully focussed on PHP 5.3. Check the announcement for more information.

One year ago, the very first BugHuntDay was organized. The event was a
big success, and has even led to the monthly Zend Framework BugHuntDays. Goal of the original day and also the now monthly recurring events is to improve the quality and stability of the framework.

November 14th, 2009, PHPBenelux and Intracto Group will host the first symfony Bughuntday, another milestone for community involvement in the PHP world. Attendees, coached by Fabien Potencier (founder of Sensio and lead developer of symfony), will track and fix bugs in the symfony framework codebase. This effort will lead towards the symfony 1.3 release at the end of November and will continue to improve this already great framework.»»»