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Oct
29
The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks beta has been on a number of news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the exciting news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with Symfony.
Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, explained the reasons why Symfony was chosen over competing frameworks:
- - Great documentation
- - Explicit and extensive configurability
- - Active development
- - Use of best-of-breed components rather than building everything again
The documentation was the first reason to choose symfony. It reaches a unique quality and coverage in the open-source world.
Michael emphasized that the configurability of symfony made it possible not only to translate the interface, but also to propose different features to every country and localize the application completely.
The Beta Bookmarks frontend development time took about 12 man-months; they started it in mid-June and released it a few days ago. Of course, they extended and modified symfony to fit their needs, but what’s great is that they could actually do it, and that they will contribute their modifications to the community.
In a post to the Symfony users mailing list this morning, Fabien goes on to say:
We are very happy to announce that such a major player in the web world chose symfony. That’s the best birthday present we could ever dream of. And we hope that it will convince more and more IT managers to discover and adopt symfony, which is definitely a professional framework adapted to high demand web applications.
This is excellent news. I’ve been developing almost exclusively using Symfony for the past year so it’s nice to see a bigger player in the online space giving credit where it’s due.
Update: Joel Moss (a Cake user) has dugg this, click the link below for more.
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It was great! But do you know some large-scale web apps in Symfony??