http://www.brandonsavage.net/learning-zend-framework-a-case-study/
How others have scaled the learning mountain in other frameworks, what is learned from the experience.
Mentors help. Too much archival junk hurts. In a fast paced development project, outdated archival info is the norm. eZ is not alone, simply a little ahead of their time ;~}
Frameworks make many an instant "expert". Until these experts try to do some of the simplest things they learned to do outside the framework.
Then it is discovered that was was dead simple outside the framework, is now wrapped into the methodology of the framework. You must learn the tools and rules of the framework, no way around that. Aggravation sets in, reality takes hold.
Until you learn how to use the tools of the framework, the debug, the logs, the code, templating and terminology, you are not going to much enjoy any customizations you attempt, no matter how simple.
A news network, focused on latest breaking information is a solution I have long proposed. The more I think about it, and read the thoughts of others, the more I believe it is truly going to be the only way to keep up with the pace of innovation on the Web. There is simply always going to be too too much old junk in fast moving environments.
Add mentoring, focus on today's solution to today's problems, only work your way back in time as necessary. It just might work. Nothing else is working right now. Too much of not the right info, data not immediately applicable to today's problem, is a large and growing problem.
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