January January my focus was mainly on the birth of Yara. A great experience of course, something truely special. It was also the month my podcast introducing symfony was published on the Zend DevZone though, and the month I received my Zend PHP5 certificate. February In February, I shared my experiences with the new Zend…
Just to clear things up for people not in the know: About two years ago, for symfony 1.0, the symfony team wrote a 24-day tutorial during the days before christmas (int he spirit of an advent calendar), which described how you would approach a typical symfony project. The tutorial described the development of the Askeet!…
So, on december 1 symfony released the stable version 1.2 of it’s framework. I’ve been digging into it and finding some really good stuff in there (such as the RESTful routing, and the Propel routes). But that’s not all. A bit before the release, Fabien approached me if I wanted to spend some time in…
First of all, let me say that Francois has done a great deal of work for symfony. He co-authored the symfony book with Fabien, he wrote, published and maintained a huge list of plugins, and he gave important input in the framework, even after he left as a member of the core team. Francois stopping…
A few evenings of work after starting on this project, I’ve got a working proof of concept since tonight. This working proof of concept means that I have phpUnderControl execute my tests, read in the resulting XML and display the test information in the phpUnderControl web interface as it would with phpUnit tests. Structure So…
I was a bit surprised earlier that freezing your project was not really advised anymore, it was the way I was used to working with my symfony 1.0 projects. However, with symfony 1.1 and some pointers I have found the new way of doing things to be very pleasant. So let me share it with…
Symfony Today and yesterday as well I have been in Paris. I have been attending a symfony training there. As I am already experienced in the framework, I was able to help a bit with helping the other attendees. It was a nice experience, and I hope in The Netherlands we can also do symfony…
Having initiated the event last year, and it going on to become the success it was last year, I am very happy that my former employer Dutch Open Projects decided to organize SymfonyCamp again this year. The line-up for this year is quite impressive, with not only symfony founder Fabien Potencier there, but also Dustin…
One of the most important changes in symfony 1.1 was the creation of the symfony platform, the core of symfony had it’s classes completely refactored into a fully decoupled set of classes that could easily be picked or overruled when required. It meant total independence of those classes whenever you would choose to do that.…