Zend, that’s too much confidence !

Sep

Zend, that’s too much confidence !

Filed under: General / PHP

I don’t know why zend emails are always special, its already a good point ! The beta 5 of their Zend Studio have been just released recently and of course it should be announced with some marketing compains, starting by their current customers.

Two emails in the same day, one announcing Zend Studio beta 5 and the second about Zend Upgrades & Support renewal. The second email start with

[…]

Dear Mr. …..,

I trust that you have been satisfied with your Zend products.

[…]

Well sincerely Zend Studio is a nice IDE, but currently I’m using Scite (1000 time faster). Zend is also making a new experience with Customer relationship, by moving to SalesForce, which is a very good step in my opinion.

But don’t you think its too much confidence ? I won’t say that Zend Studio is bad, I have use it in the beginning but currently I start it sometimes just to use the “search in files” feature, cause I have some problems with my explorer search. Otherwise the only thing that makes me move to scite is the speed to launch the IDE. And Scite I use it now in everything, even to have a look in a 20MB’s apache server logs.

Anyway in the new beta 5 there is couple of nice new features :

Web Services Support: Easily generate WSDL files directly from your PHP source code and parse existing WSDL files for Code Completion
integration and Inspection View.
Subversion Integration: Seamlessly integrate between Zend Studio
and subversion source control with this top user-requested feature.
Code Folding: Be more productive by easily folding classes, functions, PHPDoc blocks and non-PHP code.
Go to PHP Resource Utility: Quickly navigate to any PHP resource in the Project with filtering by classes, functions and constants.
FTP over SSL Support: Securely browse your FTP connection using SSL
with Implicit and Explicit methods.
Internet Explorer Integration: Directly view and debug your application in Zend Studio’s internal browser. [Where is firefox support ??]
Nested PHP Code Completion: Develop faster with new nested Code
Completion support for a variety of PHP elements (functions, variables,
etc.).