I used to have a PC laptop. It had a dual boot for a single reason: World of Warcraft. I played it quite a lot last year but after a while I got a bit bored and didn’t have enough time to play. Lately though, I felt like playing again, so this week I actually…
1. Prevent XSS, take a look at your settings This is one that my friend and colleague Peter found. It seems the escaping settings in symfony by default are not good enough to prevent XSS. Check here for more info. 2. Use plugins! (1) There is a huge list of plugins already available for symfony.…
As you can see in this new event calendar, aside from the Dutch PHP Conference, I will also be speaking during the Nllgg dag (regular event of the Dutch Linux User Group), where I will give a short introduction into the symfony framework, and I will be speaking on another very cool event, the pfCongrez,…
The conference has been prepended this year with an extra day filled with workshops. On friday June 13th, there will be 4 tutorials: One on PHP Unit by Sebastian Bergmann, one on Zend Framework by Matthew Weier O’Phinney, one of Advanced PHP by my colleague Dennis-Jan Broerse, and last but definitely not least, one on…
I have already tried Zend Studio for Eclipse when it was still called Neon, which was the public beta of this software. I was not impressed. Aside from the fact that it was built on a platform I was far from a fan of, some key features were not yet working, things like code hinting…
Most web developers have a lot of focus for writing quality applications. They ensure their markup and style is displaying correctly in multiple browsers, and they focus on their code, some even write unit tests and functional tests 😉 Additional measures are having seperate development, test, staging and production servers. Having seperate test teams. Have…
Since I am working on quite some sites for myself, I was quite interested when I read the Steer CMS announcement on the symfony-users mailinglist. I took some time to evaluate it, specifically for symfony-framework.nl . And even though I decided against migrating to Steer CMS, I am still mighty impressed by the work the…
It actually is a very fun thing to do, so if you have a topic you can tell the world about, you really should contact Cal (info on this page). Anyway, back to my podcast. I am introducing symfony with this podcast, so I give a basic overview of some of it’s features and characteristics.…
Symfony 1.1 is a (long-awaited?) new version of symfony that is under development for quite some time already. It is a first step towards a simpler, lighter and more flexible symfony 2.0 which is meant to be more explicit, and contain less “magic”. Even though the biggest parts of the development work on symfony 1.1…