Zend Framework 1.5: a sneak preview

Seems the next release of ZF will be more radical than planned. the release candidate has even changed from 1.1 to 1.5. Here are some posts giving us a few clues of whats coming:

Zend Framework- Coming soon to a Command Line near You!

What’s in a name?

Zend Framework: Launch, ZendCon, Roadmap, and ZF 1.5

The ZF proposal WIKI

The high level ZF roadmap

9/36 of McConnel's project mistakes

* People Related Mistakes
o Heroics
o Adding people to a late project
o Politics placed over substance (etc.)

* Process Related Mistakes
o Abandonment of planning under pressure
o Planning to catch up later
o "Code-like-hell" programming (etc.)

* Technology Related Mistakes
o Silver-Bullet syndrome
o Overestimating savings from new tools or methods
o Switching tools in the middle of a project (etc.)

Dilbert of the day

Functional specs

Found some cool opinions on functional specs:

Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother?

Tutorial: Functional specifcation