Launchpad and Storm

July 11th, 2007 | PHP, Web by th | 3 Comments

Canonical Inc, the company behind Ubuntu Linux and Launchpad announced they will finally open source Launchpad. Launchpad is a project management site, like Sourceforge for example. The first component to be open sourced is object relation mapping tool named Storm. Written in python that simplifies development of database-backed applications in Python. Storm has caused quite a bit buzz and hype in Python circles, and no doubt it’s a fantastic tool.

I noticed that Python-trolls attacked OSNews post about Storm already, bashing PHP for not having anything like Storm. Just to point out, PHP has ORM library too, named PHPDoctrine. PHPDoctrine is also Google’s Summer of Code project.

Zend Framework preparing for the 1.0 release

June 17th, 2007 | PHP, Web by th | No Comments

Although there are a lot of frameworks available for PHP 5, most notably upcoming Zend Framework 1.0 will be important release as it’s officially supported by Zend. Previous attempts to create reusable components for PHP, like the PEAR-repository (sort of) failed to impress developers. A common problem with the PEAR components is the long dependency tree, to use some relatively small component from PEAR, one might need to include thousands of lines of code to actually use the component. Also since it’s pretty open and loose repository, all components don’t receive same amount of Q&A. From time to time, the components might lose their maintainer and slowly fade away.

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