![]() ![]() Because neither of us ever had any kind of experience with the development of GUI applications, we never even thought about this direction. The story behind the Zend Studio is slightly different. This was the main motivation behind starting Zend – coming up with commercial solutions for commercial users of PHP. When PHP started gaining momentum, Andi and I started receiving requests from companies that began using PHP for commercial endeavours. ![]() Zend Technologies was founded in November 1999, about 4.5 years ago (now I feel old!) The plans to develop deployment and performance solutions existed even before the company was founded, and actually reflected market demand. How long has Zend been running and what made you decide to start developing the Zend encoding/performance system as well as the other Zend tools, like Zend Studio? Did it just start off as a few people working on a small system? How do you manage such a large project now? Does everyone work in an office or is it entirely web based? In the past, we’ve also been involved in writing some of the foundation modules of PHP, such as database modules (MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL) and others.īoth of us hold bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Since then, we’ve been developing and maintaining the core engine of PHP, the Zend Engine, as well as much of the infrastructure code of the language. Within about a year, PHP replaced PHP/FI completely. Our project fixed most of the shortcomings of PHP/FI, and was built on top of a reliable infrastructure, that was highly extensible.Īt some point we realized that what we had in our hands was of great value to many other people around the world, and decided to release it for everyone to use. Some ideas were borrowed from PHP/FI, a tool that we tried to use beforehand, but that proved to be far too limited and unreliable for our purposes. Firstly, can you tell us a little about yourselves, and your involvement with the PHP and the Zend development team? What first got you into software development and what is your programming background? What got you into developing applications such as the Zend products and PHP itself?Īndi and I created the language in 1997, when we needed a solution to implement a shopping cart project for University. ![]() They would like to stress that PHP would not have been as good and popular as it is today without the combined efforts of the PHP development community, and the collective input from the massive PHP user community. The interview focuses mainly upon the roles of Zeev and Andi within Zend and the development of PHP. With the 3rd Release Candidate released on 8th June (2004) and the Zend PHP 5 Coding Contest, it is easy to see that the full stable release of PHP version 5 is just around the corner.Īt this very late stage of development, I managed to obtain an interview with the two original creators of PHP and Zend – Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans – to find out more about their lives as developers of possibly the most popular web programming language ever! PHP 5 is a very popular point for discussion within the PHP community. Published J(updated: April 2, 2020) in Uncategorized. Interview - Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans Skip to content David Mytton Start Here About David Publications Media Appearances Sustainable Computing I Use Reading Subscribe Contact Search Interview – Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans
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