Tag: symfony


  • Sorting select fields in EasyAdminBundle

    I struggled to get my selectboxes sorted alphabetically when using EasyAdminBundle. Thanks to a Github comment I got it to work, this is how.

  • Silent is (almost) dead, long live my-lex

    Silex has been announced as reaching EOL in 2018. What is Silex, and what does this announcement mean?

  • The idempotent command

    The great thing about the server architectures we have these days is that everything is scalable (if you set it up correctly). The hard thing about the server architectures we have these days is that everything is scalable (if you set it up correctly). Yeah, I know. One of the things you may run into…

  • I know I’m late with this, but I’ve only recently really been discovering the podcast as a way of keeping informed. My daily commute is quite long because of traffic jams and a good way to keep yourself occupied with something useful is to listen to podcasts. On one of my recent commutes I started…

  • Command or controller?

    A couple of weeks ago while walking towards lunch with Jelrik we were having a bit of a discussion about the use of the term Command. Not long before that, Jelrik had asked a question about naming of Commands in our Slack channel, which led to some confusion. The confusion of the term Command The…

  • A quick blogpost about building APIs with Symfony2 and FOSRestBundle, just so I won’t forget this and can always refer to this blogpost if I start wondering about this again… Some time ago I inherited an API project that was built on top of Symfony2 and the FOSRestBundle after the previous developer was unable to…

  • Here’s a little detail that got me frustrated for a while. In the project I’m currently working on, we’ve decided to standardize on Yaml for the service configuration over the default XML. Since we already had a couple of bundles developed with XML, I needed to convert those configuration files to adhere to our chosen…

  • The cause As it turns out, the cause of the problem is the fact that when you specify strategy=”AUTO” for your ID-field, Doctrine2 will ignore any existing ID you’ve set in the entity. It will generate one because, well, you’ve specified it should be doing this. And usually, this is correct behaviour, but with the…

  • Usually this means I have to cancel my speaking at the conference, but I would really love to be part of this conference. So, I’m looking for one or more companies in the Boston area that are interested in hiring me (or possibly me and Joshua Thijssen, my business partner in Techademy) for training, consulting…

  • Looking back at 2011

    January The biggest thing for me in January was of course the news that I became an official Sensio training partner. I very much like to deliver training, and being able to deliver the official symfony training is of course awesome! After a slow start early in the year, it took off some more after…