Congrats, Padraic!
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Pádraic Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a note to the mailing list that after months of work on the Zend_Feed > component (pretty much a total rewrite/replacement of its functionality), > the first alpha version of Zend Framework 1.10 (due later today) will > include a Pubsubhubbub Publisher and Subscriber implementation. I've just > finished committing the final draft of the documentation to the framework's > trunk. > > Once the 1.10 release is moving along in the New Year towards stable, I'll > finally have free time to complete the Hub implementation (way overdue but > it depends on the vastly improved Zend_Feed_Reader and new Zend_Feed_Writer > components). > > I gave up counting the hours of work that went in Zend_Feed. It's grown from > a light DOM wrapper to feeds with <100 unit tests to a fully featured > interpretive parser with Pubsubhubbub support now with 1257 unit tests and > close to 1500 assertions in total. It's a monster so easy and intuitive to > use, nobody should ever suspect just how much work went into it ;). That's > how it should be. > > If you are a PHP developer or fan of another framework like Symfony or > CodeIgniter, you are probably already aware that Zend Framework components > are decoupled. i.e. you can immediately use them in any other PHP framework > or app simply by sticking the ZF on your include_path somewhere. I'll write > a blog post later to supplement the documentation in the alpha release. > > As usual, thanks to the guys who created Pubsubhubbub for making it a > no-brainer to implement, and also to Julien over at Superfeedr who bore the > brunt of my early testing which I think helped both of us figure out > implementing some of the more obscure areas of the spec. > > Paddy > > Pádraic Brady > > http://blog.astrumfutura.com > http://www.survivethedeepend.com > OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative > >
