Travis Swicegood

An Alternative to Zend?

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April 10 2008
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Travis Swicegood

I can't believe I haven't seen this on planet-php, but um... did everyone miss that Project Zero is now running SugarCRM?

Am I the only one that's thinking a non-Zend Engine PHP might be kind of cool? Maybe I'm biased since I use a lot of Jython in my day job scripting The Grinder, but hooking a dynamic language into the JVM is pretty cool. Imagine not having to use tools like memcached 'cause all you need for a cache that's not mission critical is to instantiate a HashTable object.

I definitely hope IBM has plans beyond the commercial WebSphere sMash. More interpreters is definitely a good thing. Hopefully some others will take the cue and get PHP on the DLR (I'm looking at you Liz).

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Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer and owner of Domain51, a web development company with a focus on non-profits, NGOs, and online activists. He doesn't change the world, he supports those who do.

He has personal a focus on web applications, performance, and stability; is author of Pragmatic Version Control using Git; and working on his second book. He has been using PHP; since '99 and still remembers how revolutionary PHP 4 was, but can't remember why. He's a TDD, open-source, and open government advocate—sometimes called a zealot—and lurker on many an open-source project mailing list when not learning other programming; languages; for fun, exploring his surroundings on bike, or tasting his latest kitchen and home-brew creations.

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