The Power of Frameworks

One of the guys I work with, Jeff Carouth, rolled out an application this week in less than four working days that handles audit trails for a bunch of proposals that our employer’s executive office needs to track. It’s bug-free thanks to unit tests, it looks good because our web designer could quickly create a layout with Zend_Layout and pages with Zend_View, it gives good feedback thanks to Zend_Form and the Flash Helper, and it does what it’s needed thanks to Zend_Pdf and many other components of the framework. Way to go, Jeff.

3 comments on ' The Power of Frameworks '

Howdy Karl, is that a co-worker at Texas A&M? If so, how extensively do you use ZF and what for?

,Wil

Written by Wil Sinclair on October 26, 2008 at 6:57am
Wil - Yes, it is. We have a couple of projects that are currently ‘cooking’ in Zend Framework in my department. Most of our new PHP projects are being written in Zend Framework, and we have two developers who are very much focusing on new development although our other four designer/developers are mostly dedicated to maintaining legacy applications that are not in the framework but may use components of it. The department I’m in handles IT for the interdisciplinary programs under the Research and Graduate Studies department.

Written by karlkatzke on October 26, 2008 at 9:08am
When you’re creating exactly the same solutions already done by others, it doesn’t take much effort. I’m a Symfony fan btw.

Written by Colnector on October 28, 2008 at 4:09am