Recess Gets Serious Backing

Posted Jan 16, 2009 by Kris Jordan | Comments ( 5 ) | Filed in: News | | | | |

Big news for the Recess Framework! The future of Recess hasn’t always been certain. A little over a month ago I was faced with the decision: give up on the Recess Framework or give up on a big job opportunity. I chose the latter. I’ll save the details of why I turned down Microsoft to continue working on Recess for a future post on my personal blog. The important news is Recess has a bright and exciting future ahead.

I have joined New Media Campaigns and will be continuing to develop Recess, blogging, and leading new development projects that will push the boundaries of Recess forward!

What does this mean for Recess?

1. Recess has a long-term sponsor and commitment to success. Part of my role at New Media Campaigns is ensuring continued progress on the Recess Framework. Instead of being a ‘nights and weekends’ project Recess is now a focus of my job. This includes fleshing out documentation, writing tutorials and screen casts, and continuing to develop the code base.
2. Early versions of Recess will be more widely used in production applications. Already we’ve written one app in Recess for documentation which will be blogged about soon. In the next couple months I will be leading the development team transitioning New Media’s flagship Content Management System to Recess. This enables Recess to continue maturing at a steady, rapid pace.
3. Recess is still 100% open-source under the MIT License. New Media Campaigns is an advocate of the LAMP stack and their sponsorship of Recess is a great way to give back to the PHP community. The Recess Source is proudly hosted on GitHub and will continue to be!

Get excited folks: this fledgling PHP framework just grew some legs!

In other news we have opened up the Recess Preview Program and download so that registration is not required. In order to post to the discussion board, however, registration is required. As the documentation efforts ramp up here please defer to the discussion board with all questions. Have a great weekend!