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Why OpenSource Is Better Than Your Homerolled Garbage (as a comic strip) 8 May 2012 | 05:10 am
Another shameless plug for Penultimate. I am definitely having fun with these. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed drawing it!
OAuth 2.0 (as a comic strip) 25 Apr 2012 | 04:59 am
I’ve been reading up on OAuth 2.0, and given my current addiction to Draw Something, it comes at no surprise I’ve created the comic strip below. At last, learning is fun again. Credits: Third Party Cl...
Contextualizing your Symfony2 Application with the Service Container 29 Feb 2012 | 09:52 am
Every website uses some form of contextualization. In other words, users see information based on their context. A user being tied to a “company” or “organization”, which sandboxes the data they see i...
Hadori: Symfony 1.4′s Brand New Admin Generator 14 Apr 2011 | 04:55 am
Meet Hadori. She's beautiful, magnificient, and everything you've ever dreamed her to be. Go head, don't be shy... browse the fully-functional demo, or view the screen shots by viewing the full post.....
Advanced Symfony Forms – Embedding “Options” Forms 30 Mar 2011 | 04:58 am
A while ago, I wrote a post entitled “Faux Form Serialization“. It was an overly-complex solution to a very easy problem. Today, I am writing about a much better implementation for solving the same pr...
How To Test Your Symfony Plugins 19 Oct 2010 | 04:34 am
You all should be testing your plugins. You know that, right? Regardless of whether or not you know that, chances are you have NO EARTHLY IDEA how to accomplish it. I’ve spent a while getting tests up...
Flexible Symfony Testing Task 11 Aug 2010 | 05:45 am
You should be testing your applications. End of story. This post outlines a task I created that makes testing your application easier. This test is great if you fall into one of the following categori...
Short: Sync generator.yml with your Admin Module 26 Jul 2010 | 05:58 am
Recently I created a model I called sfDoctrineSecurityGenerator. It’s an awesome class that you can drop directly into generator.yml that matches the admin generator’s security credentials with those ...
Short: Enable Doctrine Query Backtrace in Web Developer Toolbar 23 Jul 2010 | 08:25 am
A very useful feature is the ability to pinpoint which queries are being called where. Especially if you have one query taking 6 seconds to run. Symfony and Xdebug will provide a nice little arrow nex...
Short: Order Result Sets by an Array 21 Jul 2010 | 06:58 am
Here’s an easy way to add ordering by an array in your doctrine query. This is only useful in a handful of use cases, namely when a query is receiving a list of IDs in the order they should appear. Th...
