Zend’s new open source project to simplify building and maintaining APIs

Featured News Apigility - a new open source API-builder Creating APIs for your applications can be hard, but a standardized way to build and maintain multiple versions of an API can make the job easier. That's why we introduced Apigility – an open source API builder that's designed to simplify creating and maintaining useful, easy to consume, and well structured APIs. Watch the demo » Watch Apigility webinar » Featured Tips & Tricks Why is PHP development better with classes? Do you take advantage of Object Oriented Programming for your PHP projects? Read this article to learn why it is better to develop your PHP projects based on object classes. Besides other benefits, you'll also learn how to convert your global code based classes into properly written classes that you can reuse in multiple projects. 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Get the Latest Zend News Zend Hits the Throttle with PHP Dev Tool "Zend Studio 10.5 will validate and analyze your code on the fly and guide you through how to use new APIs, frameworks and libraries via intuitive content assist," says Natalia Bartol, a team leader for Zend Studio. Open Source Apigility Project from Zend Aims to Standardize API Development Zend, a provider of application development tools for building PHP applications, is promoting the adoption of a new open-source Apigility project that provides a standardized way to build and maintain multiple versions of an API. Zend Amps Agile with Blueprints It takes too long for most enterprises to get their code into production, even Agile organizations. To accelerate that process, Zend created Blueprints for Continuous Delivery, a codification of best practices for each step of the software delivery cycle designed to organize them into a single, iterative process. 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