Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here.

I've found these to be helpful in porting a ZF1 app to ZF2, which is in Beta1 status at the moment.  Rob Allen's tutorial -updated for the beta, worked for me out of the box using git submodule.

When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen.  You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud.  That can't be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7.  My thoughts after the quote.

Cal Evans wrote a straightforward and excellent tutorial on how to to use Zend_Auth and its OpenID adapter to authenticate users today.  I was not only impressed by the tutorial itself, and I liked how he had code up front and so well commented, but also by how easy it was to implement the code here on my blog.  This was my first practical look at the Zend Framework, and the o