Zend Framework hits 1.0 milestone

Just in time for Independence Day  the Zend Framework for PHP has hit its 1.0.0 milestone and is available for download. Zend uses the OSI-approved New BSD license. Zend Technologies gave credit to 230 community developers, including Google and IBM,  releasing the framework for Web 2.0 application development less than two years after it was first announced. If you want to see Zend in action their "featured application" is IBM's QEDWiki, "a browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mash-ups." Contributors submitted their code under an Apache-style contributor license agreement (CLA), which means you can call off the lawyers. (Or just give them tomorrow off.) Zend also has a “use-at-will” architecture, meaning you can use as few of its functions as you...