Recently i started looking around Zend framework, i have been suspicious for a long time about sticking to a framework in developing my applications, i used to use my own classes, but after reading about Zend framework, i decided to give it a try especially when i discovered that it work smoothly with Zend studio for eclipse, and soon inshallah i will release a new project built on this framework.

and here is some info about Why to use Zend Framework :

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Expanding on these core themes, we have implemented Zend Framework to embody extreme simplicity & productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple corporate-friendly licensing, and an agile well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend upon.

Extreme Simplicity & Productivity

We designed Zend Framework with simplicity in mind. To provide a lightweight, loosely-coupled component library simplified to provide 4/5s of the functionality everyone needs and that lets you customize the other 20% to meet your specific business needs. By focusing on the most commonly needed functionality, we retain the simplified spirit of PHP programming, dramatically lower the learning curve, and your training costs

Hi,

recently i noticed that zend released a new IDE, it is Zend Neon which actually is built on eClipse.

i tried it, it is very fast, not heavy, and have a lot of options, it really rocks.

you can download it from http://www.zend.com

i will leave you now with a quick movie about the interface

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu3bX9IXLKU

hola,

i had a problem writing C/C++ code on my new macbook, after some googling, i found some editors that allow me to do that

the first one is the XCode which comes with the original DVD of Mac Os, also can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

the second one which is netbeans 6, and can be downloaded from http://www.netbeans.org

and the third one is EClipse, and you can get it from http://www.eclipse.org

the last 2 programs above is open source, and they can run on any OS not limited to MAC only and they have a lot of cool plugins.

if anyone of you guys know other programs to code C and C++ under MAC, kindly post it in the comments.