In a new post to his blog Andi Gutmans mentions how the Zend Framework was "well represented" in this year's SourceForge Awards.

The Zend Framework team will be watching closely, since no fewer than two (!) new ZF-based projects have made it in to the finals: Magento and Tine 2.0.

Magento is a very popular eCommerce application that makes setting up an online shop quick and easy. It's well designed and has been nominates to several community spots like "Best Project for the Enterprise" and "Most Likely to Change the World".

Time 2.0 is focused on intranet collaboration and is a rewrite of the eGroupWare project (a collaboration suite allowing for instant access of any data from just about anywhere there's an internet connection).

You can cast your vote for these and other great community projects by logging in to SourceForge and selecting your favorites from the lists.

Recently the eZ Systems group had their eZ Awards ceremony at this year's Open Nordic Conference 2008. Derick Rethans has a brief post about the ceremony and the nominees/winner of the eZ Components award.

Last Thursday, during the Open Nordic Conference 2008 eZ Systems handed out its annual awards again. For the eZ Components award, there were four nominees, which are all recognised for their support of the eZ Components project.

Nominees included Stefan Marr and Falko Menge, James Pic, Andreas Schamberger and Freddie Witherden. The winner was James Pic for his work with the upcoming MVC additions to the component framework.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted briefly about an award that the Zend Framework/DevZone received at this year's Jolt Awards (the "Oscars of our industry).

Both Zend Framework and Zend's DevZone were nominated for Jolt Awards this year. Zend Framework walked away with a "Jolt Productivity Award", for a project that is still in it's 1.x version, this is awesome!

Other categories in this year's event included "Technical Books", "Collaboration Tools", "Development Environments" and the category the Zend Framework was in - "Libraries/Frameworks". It beat out the Eclipse Modeling Project and the Spring Framework for the top spot in productivity.

The PHPClasses.org site has announced the winner of their "PHP Programming Award 2007" - Cesar Rodas:

Since the beginning of February, the ranking of PHP Programming Award winners of 2007 is available As you may see Cesar Rodas is top ranked of all authors that were nominated to the award during 2007.

His prize was a stuffed PHP friend of his very own - an elePHPant (as created by Vincent Pointier and Damien Seguy). There's also an interview with Cesar included.

Thomas submitted a story to us today about an award that the eZ Systems group (developers of the eZ Components framework among other things) has received for the second time - the Web Idol Award (2007).

Five software vendors got six minutes each to show their CMS solution to an audience comprised of the conference attendees. After the demonstrations, a panel of judges commented on the presentation. The audience voted eZ Publish as the best CMS solution, and eZ Flow as having the most appealing first impression.

The show was hosted by Teresa Regli and the judges included Erik Hartman, James Robertson and Tony Byrne, founder and editor of CMSWatch.

You can find out more about eZ Systems on their website including more information about the company being awarded this honor.

Congratulations are in order for Theo Schlossnagle, a Principal over at OmniTI, who has made it into the list from Inc.com for Ernst and Young's 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Award candidates.

Being the founder and principal of a $6 million technology company is the crown jewel of Theo Schlossnagle's resume, but this is merely one of his many bragging rights. He is also a published author, the architect of a leading email software solution (www.messagesystems.com), and one of the IT industry's most in-demand speakers. And he's yet to turn 30.

Theo not only founded what became OmniTI (which employs several of the more well-known PHP developers including Wez Furlong, George Schlossnagle and Chris Shiflett) but is active in the PHP community itself, both as a developer and as an author - Scalable Internet Architectures.

Congrats Theo and best of luck!

As mentioned by the php|architect website, the results are in for the Community Awards competition SourceForge was hosting for the year and two PHP-based projects made the list - phpBB and phpMyAdmin.

The Community Choice Awards are over! The SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards provided you an opportunity to recognize projects that stand taller than the rest. Everybody got to vote, and everybody's vote counted equally. The winning projects, each with superlative quality, productivity, and ingenuity, represent the cream of the crop on SourceForge.net.

phpBB made the cut in the "Best Project for Communications" category and phpMyAdmin won in the "Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins". Congratulations to both projects on your achievement!

Stoyan Stefanov points out that the CMS nomination awards have now been opened for public voting (of which he is one of the judges of the PHP category). The event is put on by Packt Publishing:

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Following on from the success of 2006, Packt has expanded the Award for 2007 with an increase in prize money and the addition of new categories.

There are five different categories this year:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS
• Best Social Networking CMS

You can nominate your favorite CMS from the Packt site for each of the categories. The nominations only last until August 31st, so get in there and get your vote in!

On the ITJungle website, there's a new article about an award presented to Independent Computer Services for their OOP development efforts.

One of the attractions to PHP on System i is the low skills barrier to entry. Anybody who has written a lick of procedural PHP on any other platform can develop System i applications. But one of the lesser known advantages of PHP is its capability to scale up into the realm of object-oriented (OO) development to create more sophisticated applications. OO development was the basis for an award given to System i consultancy Independent Computer Services (ICS) by Zend, the company behind PHP.

The article goes on to talk about who ICS is, what they do in the technology market, why they chose PHP and what they developed to deserve the award.

Zend wants to know a bit about your PHP IDE preference, so says Cal Evans in this new post to the Zend Developer Zone:

Zend (Disclaimer:Zend pays the bills here at DevZone) is running a survey on IDE usage and gathering opinions on IDE features. If you would like to participate and give us your opinions please fill out the survey. It should only take about 5 minutes of your time.

It's not just for fun, though. There will be prizes awarded for certain lucky voters, 21 of them to be exact including an iPod and Zend T-shirts. Get your vote in now!