New ZendFramework release out today, fixing three pages of bugs this time (A fair number of them on the newer Zend_Form stuff that was added in 1.5.0). Pretty impressive, the ZF team is quite busy.

So far in my experience with ZendFramework I’ve not come across any bugs that hindered my development or required me to log a bug or even have to do any workarounds for an irritation that I found in the framework, which I find comforting actually. It means that the functionality of ZF that I’m using (So far it’s quite limited to simple CMS-type websites, nothing complicated) is fairly mature, and became mature quite quickly.

Go team ZendFramework! You guys rock!

I received notification today that the Zend Framework was bumped to V1.5.1, with lots of fixes to the framework itself.

We (I mean Neil) used Zend Framework for the Weylandts CMS project (A great project which finally launched last week after several delays) when I worked at OgilvyInteractive (technically, I still work there, but due to health reasons, my last official working day was last Wednesday), and I’m using the framework in a freelance project I’m doing as well. I find at times, it’s great in what it achieves and how easy it is to do certain things, but other times, like the fantastic addition of the Zend_Form classes, where things are just too much of an effort to have to jump through the hoops required. I’m not fond of reinventing the wheel, and that’s what makes the Zend Framework so nice, you only use the bits and bobs you need, and you’re not tied into a huge array of restrictions like other frameworks.