Maintainable News

Maintainable Software founder Mike Naberezny will be speaking again this year at the Zend/PHP Conference on October 8, 2007. The talk, Best Practices of PHP Development, will be a full-day tutorial session in cooperation with Sebastian Bergmann of PHPUnit and Matthew Weier-O'Phinney of Zend.

Mike Naberezny has spoken at ZendCon three times, being invited back each year since the inception of the conference in 2005. He is also a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board. Maintainable is committed to improving the quality of PHP development.

On his blog, Mike Naberezny has announced a new collaboration between Maintainable Software and the Horde Project.

The new effort, Horde_Routes, is a full port of the Python project Routes to PHP 5. The new package provides classes for mapping URLs into the controllers and actions of an MVC system, inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Horde_Routes features route recognition and generation, named routes, PHP 5 E_STRICT code, and a comprehensive test suite. Maintainable is pleased to again contribute back to open source with this new addition to the Horde Project.

Agendaless Consulting has announced the first alpha release of Supervisord 3.0, a Python program for process management on UNIX-like systems.

The major feature in this new release is an event notification system designed by Mike Naberezny and Chris McDonough. It also includes an overhaul of the web interface styling by Derek DeVries and a host of other new features such as XML-RPC interface extensibility.

Maintainable was pleased to contribute funding, design, and development to this release as part of our ongoing commitment to supporting open source software.

Maintainable Software is proud to announce a new book, Rails for PHP Developers, is underway and will be published by The Pragmatic Programmers. The book has already been in development for many months.

The new book, authored by Maintainable founder Mike Naberezny and vice president Derek DeVries, will be the best way for PHP developers to quickly up come to speed with the Ruby language and Rails framework.