Zend Framework 1.0 is out
Happy times and great success! 1.0 is finally out, and I’m sure it will (already has?) got quite allot of coverage in the PHP blogsphere - and even got into the main page of Digg - so I’m not going to write about the framework too much - however I do feel a personal retrospection is in place…
I joined the ZF community back in May 2006 (at least this is the earliest SVN commit I could find) - I made some complaints about the HTTP client, and Andi suggested I take charge of it. One thing led to another, and I ended up rewriting the whole Zend_Http classes. Things were not always done the “framework” way (there were no proposals or specs up until later in the development process for example), but I think the result is decent and useful.
There is already lots of talk about the next stages - we’ve been in a feature freeze for quite some time, and I have plans for several requested changes and new components: It seems that in the last couple of weeks the growing interest got people to report bugs and ask for interface changes - ironically at the stage when it was to late to make any changes. So there is already a list of proposed improvements to Zend_Http classes - I plan on doing some work on Zend_Http_Cookie and Zend_Http_CookieJar - and perhaps one day also improve Zend_Http_Client doing things like creating a Zend_Http_Request class that will be inter-operable with Zend_Controller_Request_Http. Also, there is the much needed support for CONNECT requests for HTTPS proxying - and more.
Additionally, I put up (and am still updating) a proposal for Zend_Service_PayPal - a PayPal web services component. Hopefully this proposal will be accepted soon, and the pieces of code I already have can be moved from the laboratory to the incubator, and from there to the main library.
So the future of Zend Framework begins today, and 1.0 is definitely not the end - in fact, I have a
feeling this might just be the beginning of, well urm.. a beautiful friendship 
.. OK.. can’t say I understood much more than conjunction words. But for some reason I feel proud of you :). Congratulations, bro!