March 5, 2006

Zend Framework goes public

On March 3rd, a first preview version of Zend Framework has been released to public.

Zend Framework is a high quality and open source framework for developing Web Applications and Web Services.

Built in the true PHP spirit, the Zend Framework delivers ease-of-use and powerful functionality. It provides solutions for building modern, robust, and secure websites.

Ivo Jansch has already looked at it and written a short review, but is in doubt that the Zend Framework is really a framework. Some insights into the licensing around it gives Stuart Herbert.

March 3, 2006

AdvancedAJAX

AdvancedAJAX is a JavaScript object encapsulating and simplifying the usage of XMLHttpRequest for doing AJAX-style calls to a server from within a web page. It provides methods for querying the server, error handling and HTML form support, and may be used in non-commercial and commercial projects.

AdvancedAJAX is a JavaScript object allowing to use XMLHttpRequest object easier and speeding up development of AJAX based projects. It consists a bound of methods helping creating queries, error handling, usage with HTML forms as well as connection timeouts and reconnecting.

(found in digg)