http://redotheweb.com Aren't you tired of being tied in a web? Sat, 30 May 2009 18:57:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's so quiet in this blog, because it is closed. Forever. No more post will ever be published, you can't send any comment, and you can unsubscribe safely from its RSS feed. More than 8,000 unique visitors a month now have time to procrastinate elsewhere. I have finally admitted that I ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/10/30/its-oh-so-quiet/ There is a lot to learn from Fabien Potencier, the creator of the symfony framework. He often comments people's work on other frameworks, but almost never when someone works on his own framework. So his recent reaction about my DDD experiment is rare enough to be thoroughly analyzed, and distilled. ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/10/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Dealing with the display of form inputs, the validation of a form submission, and all the particular cases of forms is one of the most complex tasks in web development. Luckily, symfony provides a simple interface to a very powerful form sub-framework, and helps you to design and handle forms ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/27/chapter-10-forms/ Did you ever wish you could sort by a partial column in the admin generator? Using DbFinder and a few lines of code, it is now possible. The symfony admin generator allows you to select which properties of a model you want to display. You can include foreign key fields, or ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/25/sorting-by-custom-column-in-the-symfony-admin-generator/ If you've watched or read my presentation on Documentation-Driven Development, you may wonder how to put that new methodology into action. A practical example is often better than a long explanation, so let's see ho to apply it to the new Forms sub-framework introduced by symfony 1.1. Not DDD In order to ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/23/document-driven-development-in-practice-rethinking-sfforms/ When faced with the alternative between an off-the-shelf CMS or a custom development, many companies pick solutions like ezPublish or Drupal. In addition to being free, these CMS seem to fulfill all possible requirements. But while choosing an open-source solution is a great idea, going for a full-featured CMS may ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/19/designing-a-cms-architecture/ Did you attend this year's Symfony Camp? It was a great event, the unique occasion to meet the core team of the symfony framework. I had the opportunity to give a talk there, and you can now watch it online: Developing for DevelopersView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: symfony ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/15/developing-for-developers-my-symfonycamp08-presentation/ As of today, there is no simple way to validate the syntax of a YAML file in PHP. But with two simple tricks, it takes only a few dozens of lines of code to build a robust validator capable of checking the syntax of any YAML file against a given ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/09/09/validating-a-yaml-file-against-a-schema-in-php/ And that includes me. I will be giving a presentation there, in two weeks from now, called "Developing for Developers - Usability Applied to Programming", and illustrated by my recent work on DbFinderPlugin. If you'd like to meet the best PHP5 developers in the world, or me, you should definitely go ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/08/29/everybody-goes-to-symfony-camp/ The sfPropelFinder plugin, which I've told you about a lot lately, has recently been renamed to DbFinder. This emphasizes the fact that the plugin is not Propel-specific anymore, and that you can use it with Doctrine without any change in the API. Also, I have released a version 0.9 of the ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/08/28/sfpropelfinder-becomes-dbfinder-announcing-10-release/