After months of development, yesterday we launched version 4.0 of Jongeren in Beeld, a webbased application for tracking data for youth workers, police, city officials etc. regarding “problem youth” (though really, it’s simply a data filing system that can be used for other things as well). Version 3, which was developed before I joined Dutch…
It’s been a while since my last post, at least for my usual posting frequency. I’ve not been idling however, I’ve actually been quite busy. First of all, I did something stupid, and lost all the data on my laptop. It sucks, and I felt very bad about it at first. I’ve lost quite a…
They did it! Symfony framework has has released their stable version 1.0. A nice milestone, congrats to Francois and Fabien! I’ve been very impressed with the framework from the moment I first checked it out, somewhere in october or november last year, and I’ve been working on developing several applications in Symfony since then. If…
Yay, it’s in!
I know, I’ve been with Dutch Open Projects for only a few months, and already there’s new developments. I’ll still have my ties with Dutch Open Projects, but my contract will move to another company. One of the owners of Dutch Open Projects is taking the most successful project into a new company. As I’ve…
The Joomla!Days are over, let my Joomla!Days begin. When I started working for my current employer I knew they were working with Joomla! and Mambo a lot, and I wasn’t the biggest fan of that CMS. But with 1.5 they have been doing a lot to make it one of the most impressive CMS’es out…
We recently had a weird situation here at work where we needed to use the Url helper of Symfony inside the actions.class.php of a module. This helper is available in the view, but not in the actions class by default. Of course, we can include this, and this was my first approach. Simply using: include_once(‘symfony/helper/UrlHelper.php’);…
After giving it multiple quick glances, today a co-worker of mine and me sat down a full day to work through the first part of the Symfony tutorial in an attempt to learn to work with Symfony. The tutorials are meant to take about one hour each, and that is a good approximate. After some…