Following the recent departure of one of its key collaborators, Francois Zaninotto, Symfony has taken a fair bit of stick and has seen some users abandon the web app framework in favour of alternatives such as Zend.
It seems Francois’ frustrations with the closed nature of Symfony development (he says 95% of decisions are made by one man – creator Fabien Potencier) finally outweighed his enjoyment of working on the project, prompting him to leave (more details can be found at Redo The Web, Francois’ blog).
Despite boasting some pretty high profile users (Yahoo Bookmarks and Askeet to name a couple) and thousands of smaller ones (see this Symfony list of some of the key sites built on the framework), the initiative is…
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Etondigital is proud to announce the the launch of Skipso (currently operating in Private Beta) – a unique online professional environment and marketplace dedicated to clean and sustainable technological innovation. Whether you wish to test the viability of your business ideas with industry experts, recruit hot new talent for your venture or invest funds in a project, Skipso is here to help connect with the people who can help make it happen.
Skipso allows all users to create a free individual profile from which to manage all Skipso activity. From here you can participate at a community level in activities such as joining thinktanks, rating other content or asking and answering questions. You can publish your own blogs and presentations to…
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