Zend Framework powers fav.or.it

June 17th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Today we finally launched fav.or.it. For those who have not been following our exploits for long we have been developing using Zend Framework on PHP, in fact we started using it at around version 0.6 and have worked through the problems as it has grown and evolved.

We have had our issues with performance as we got closer to launch but this is always a risk when using a complex framework built by others, you take a lot of granted and enjoy the speed in which you can build things. But there are always downsides but they are ones we we are happy to have taken, as we have built a massive product with a tiny team (3 developers!).

Now we have launched I really hope it will free my time up much more to start blogging properly and also to start documenting a lot of the framework code that we have extended and give it back to the community. We have built a large raft of performance related code for doing a lot of caching within web 2.0 apps. We have also built our own RESTful library which IMHO is much more powerful than the zend one and also much much faster.

Please do go try out fav.or.it and see what we have built!

There Are 10 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Federico on 18 June 2008:

    Hi Nick, love the site! Congrats :)

  2. Comment by phuson on 18 June 2008:

    Congrats Nick and team!

  3. Comment by jwage on 18 June 2008:

    cool site. What was the development timeline? When was Zend 0.6 out?

  4. Comment by Wil Sinclair on 18 June 2008:

    Congrats from the ZF team! Now, about those contributions you mentioned. . . :)

    ,Wil

  5. Comment by eduardo on 18 June 2008:

    a) Congrats! Launching things is hard :)
    b) I second the comments from the ZF team. I am sure a bunch of us could use a great RESTful library :)
    c) So, what were the performance bottlenecks! I would love to know!

  6. Comment by Yannick on 18 June 2008:

    Congrats to you and your team. Job well done on Fav.or.it. Keep up the good work.

  7. Comment by 2mx on 4 July 2008:

    Congrats guys,

    I hope you will have some time to share your experience. It is something very valuable for others who are developing with ZF.

  8. Comment by Wil Sinclair on 4 July 2008:

    Of course you guys are always welcome to share your experience as a ZF case study: http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/casestudies

    ,Wil

  9. Comment by Rolls Royce Phantom wedding car on 6 July 2008:

    Good work, well done! Keep it up!

  10. Comment by Prom Car Hire on 7 July 2008:

    Good article! Good for those developing with ZF.

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