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The last couple of days I’ve been literally sweating over the PHP- framework called Zend Framework (shorthand ZF). It was hot and humid in the Netherlands, but  also my programming skills weren’t up to the level to easily solve the test at hand. Since the reason for me to work with ZF was not so much a choice, as it was related to a potential new job. They have given me a test to determine my competence in the PHP-language. But this post isn’t about the test, it is about something different. I took a deep-dive into ZF, but the water felt cold.

First of all I’m not an experienced programmer so it probably takes way longer for me to absorb the way of the framework. But apart from this I was eager to get my test done in the best possible way. So I started looking for resources: screencasts, tutorial, code snippets, and so forth. And believe me I surf the Internet a lot — most people will probably say I surf too much. But I was heavily disappointed with the clarity and ‘sexiness’ of the examples and documentation I’ve found.