The DevZone codebase has been upgraded today and some new features now exist to make your DevZone experience more engaging!

Updates include notification when articles are published, an update to how comments are posted, syntax highlight for code in posts, twitter integration on multiple accounts and plenty of backend updates to help with the stability and performance of the site in general.

If you'd like to add your own article for consideration, you can submit it here and you'll be notified if it's published.

DevZone takes an important place alongside Zend Framework and our Eclipse-based tooling as an equal partner in collaboration. Open source companies' tail wind is the community'"and the learning and mentoring environment that comes with it. We have always strived to help support the ongoing process of cross pollination among the community which has truly matured the PHP eco-system as a whole. Professional content, leadership, and expertise associated with the very best practices of PHP are the key to what has made PHP a mature Enterprise-ready Web solution.

He talks a bit about the evolution of DevZone from the "Zend.org" concept up to the current day with contributions from smaller, single developers and larger companies alike. Now, with the hiring on of Eli White into the "Editor-in-Chief" role there at Zend, Andi is looking forward to "the next generation" of all things DevZone.