Since the rumour mill has been active a while, I confim two chapters of the book will be released this week. Unfortunately, changing jobs remains a time consuming and distracting endeavor. I also made a commitment to finish off initial releases of several open source tools/ZF components during February/March (see MutateMe and Mockery for the first two of four being planned). To kick off a new spell of book updates, the next Chapter will be “A Simple Hello World Example”, with an Appendix titled “Virtual Hosts On Apache 2″. The following Chapter approximately one week later will be an introduction to the application to be built for most of the first half of the book.

Can we now put to death any idea the book is being shutdown/neglected/lost in space? :) Unlike a published book, there is no fixed schedule and it will see delays of a month or two when life decides to interrupt me. As stated before, it will take a full year for a complete book to emerge – anyone who has written articles or books knows these things take time, patience and a ton of research. Yep, even a simple Hello World example takes its toll on my time and I hope the results are worth the wait since you should remember the whole point of this book is to not simply cover a bunch of simple examples (the RG has tons of those).

I hope the approach so far is making sense – we’re pushing the envelope in several ways of how the ZF is taught with Appendices throwing in apparently unrelated (but actually essential) accompanying information. Nginx reverse proxies? Apache virtual hosts? Next I’ll be talking static page caching since it’s one of those features I recently proposed (why it was never originally added is beyond me).

So please be patient! Not I find the impatience irritating (it’s actually quite encouraging :) ). The book is not my sole obsession.