Now that my book is finally out I had some time to get a new website out the door.

The ATK Framework, which has been living on Achievo's website for a few years, finally has a home of its own, with a brand new design: http://www.atk-framework.com. The design was created by our house designer Almer Kaasschieter.

There are also some project changes as I haven't had much time for the framework the past year. Peter C. Verhage is taking over release management (he's the one who implemented most of the fancy Ajax stuff, the generate-an-app-from-the-db-schema functionality and much more, so it's in good hands), and Boy Baukema has formed an ATK Documentation Group that is going to deal with the lack of proper documentation.

Also, there are Zend Framework and Code Igniter bridges on their way, and I've heard a rumour someone is working on a Symfony bridge. This way, you can combine the power of those frameworks with the backend strength of ATK.

One of our developers posted an article on our corporate blog about backward compatibility. He discusses 6 conceptually different ways of handling the backward compatibility problem in an application or API.

Backward compatibility is something that is often not taken into account from the start when developing a project, and it can bite you at a later stage. So I think it's a good read.

You can find the post here.