Jaan Paljasma | Tech Blog

The Greatest Framework Since ZF 1 After 17 months of effort, hundreds of releases, tens of thousands of commits by hundreds of contributors, and millions of installs, Zend finally announced the immediate availability of Zend Framework 3 . Increased Performance According to Zend, the performance increase is ~ 4x on PHP 5, and even greater performance on PHP 7 - which is now fully supported - compared to previous version of Zend Framework. Naturally, they claim that they have improved documentation. Ships with a Micro-Framework The Zend Framework 3 also included a number of new features, primarily around PSR-7 (HTTP Message interfaces) support. These include: Diactoros : the original and leading PSR-7 implementation in the PHP ecosystem. Stratigility : a PSR-7 middleware foundation based on the node.js Sencha Connect Expressive : a PSR-7 middleware microframework If you are already familiar with our MVC, or want to get started with it, we have created a new ve...

Z-Ray Technology Preview The most advanced debugging & productivity technology for PHP developers - now on your own PHP stack! In just a few steps, you can start introspecting the insides of your code and apps using Z-Ray. Currently supported on Linux and Mac OS X. Z-Ray Standalone Tech Preview for Linux/OSX available for download https://t.co/x4HolzbJJS #PHP #Zend #ZRay #OSX #Linux #debug #technology — Jaan Paljasma (@jpaljasma) October 22, 2015

I received today email notification from Zend Developer Cloud stating that the PHP Developer Cloud (phpcloud.com) will be closed on 09/07/14 for good. Quite surprise (and not so much) from a company as great as Zend. Just FYI - I tried their service only once and after 48 hours of waiting for my virtual instance to become available, I gave up. For your reference, here's the copy of whole email sent today:   Hi Jaan, You are receiving this email because you have created PHP containers on the  phpcloud.com  - Zend Developer Cloud.   When we launched Zend Developer Cloud in 2011, there were few options for PHP developers to experience Cloud development. We set out to deliver a development-only Cloud environment that could provide you a simple and frictionless way to experience development in the Cloud. In parallel, we began working with the leading cloud providers to define Zend Server-based environments that could run your projects at scale once th...