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Eran Galperin is the techfounder, an Internet entrepreneur and web technologies expert.
The breaking news are that Zend has fired 25% employees R&D department (Updated, thanks David for pointing that out), possibly in preparation for acquisition my a major player. Zend employees are major contributers in the PHP open-source project, so this has tangible ramification for all of us PHP developers out there.
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Preamble: This series of articles deals with providing a generic model class for use in the Zend Framework.
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If you’d taken the time to read my About page, you might know that I’m one of the co-founders at the Internet start-up Octabox. Octabox however is not a source of income for the time being, as its still under-development and self-funded.
That means that we, Octabox founders, have to earn our keep in other ways.
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Something that keeps bothering me is how badly written the major CMS packages for PHP are. Yes, I’m talking about wordpress and drupal amongst others, that are so insanely popular but are just as insanely procedural hack-fest mess.
Lets get this out of the door - I’m an Object Oriented guy. I strongly believe OO methodology to be superior in so many ways to procedural code. Given that, I have seen procedural code that is very neatly organized (almost to the point that it emulates OO standards using function hierarchy). Wordpress and drupal code however, is not.
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2008 - The Future