History

I first started building websites with PHP at the age of 15, hoping to escape the treacherous world of PERL. After a few years, I noticed I was writing the same code over and over again, and did what any ambitious young programmer would do: I turned those patterns into a framework. That framework, the Zibings Site Framework (or ZSF for short), has been in development ever since, and has been used to build over 100 websites of all different shapes and sizes.

Over time, we developed the following guiding principles:

• Build tools that saved time without forcing you to use them
• Scaffold in a way that was (at least) similar to how the rest of the PHP community builds
• Don't pretend that we know the "one true way" to do anything. We're idiots sometimes.

In the end, ZSF has gone through a number of iterations, even having been renamed to things like "N2F" (the "No-Nonsense Framework"). Every time, though, my group of close developer friends and I come back to our roots and keep tweaking the way we build until we have something that speeds up our process significantly.

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