http://redotheweb.com Aren't you tired of being tied in a web? Fri, 16 May 2008 12:41:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm officially retiring from the symfony project core team and documentation. My recent [rant](http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/05/is-symfony-11-too-verbose/) about the shift in symfony philosophy lead Fabien and I to agree that we disagree. The symfony project will have to find new documentation writers. I've been working on the symfony project for three years now, and ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/16/no-one-is-irreplaceable/ Together with all the people working at my company, we've been working on a French website called __"Ma Génération"__. It's a generalist news/service portal, exclusively in French - and built entirely in PHP with [symfony](http://www.symfony-project.org). Please, pay us a visit at [http://www.mageneration.com](http://www.mageneration.com). In addition to a large custom-made CMS, the site features ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/14/talking-bout-ma-generation/ Among the remarks I have about symfony 1.1, the most recurring one is the shift of philosophy between the 1.0 and 1.1 syntax. If symfony 1.0 syntax was made to write code fast, I believe it is not the case anymore with symfony 1.1, which is designed primarily for extensibility. The ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/05/is-symfony-11-too-verbose/ Twitter is [said to rewrite parts of their application with something else than RoR to solve their performance/availability issues](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/). Is this good news? Is this a reason for Code Ignitor fans and Django preachers to just celebrate? Should the symfony community see this as a wonderful opportunity? Not at all. There ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/05/02/twitter-said-to-drop-rails-so-what/ The two most common criticisms I hear about about Propel are the difficulty to learn the `Criteria` object, and the amount of code required to do a custom Join. That, and the fact that Propel is slow--but Propel 1.3 will just leave every other ORM behind, so speed is not ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/04/10/propel-is-not-hard-anymore/ It took me three stations, after I stepped into this metro, to react. There was a man lying on the floor, apparently sleeping. A tramp. In the middle of a wagon. At 10:30pm in Paris, France. We live in a time of marvel. Just an hour before, I was showing off ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/04/08/virtual-fun-real-decay/ This tutorial shows how fast you can develop with symfony. It showcases symfony's admin generator capabilities, and makes great use of a couple of symfony plugins. Installation ------------ Start with an empty [symfony sandbox](http://www.symfony-project.org/get/sf_sandbox.tgz). Then use the symfony command line to install two plugins from the symfony plugins repository. Open a terminal, go ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/04/05/application-lego-build-a-wiki-with-symfony-in-20-minutes/ Are you tired of writing long Criteria definitions for simple queries? Do you sometimes wish that symfony had an ActiveRecord (even if it is not really possible in PHP5 as of now)? Do you feel that the world of Javascript has changed since [jQuery](http://jquery.com) came up? Do you like the ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/03/27/sfpropelfinder-is-like-jquery-for-propel/ Sometimes, the price of a request when dealing with a symfony application can be overwhelming. But instead of getting back to spaghetti PHP, maybe you can get a handful of symfony features for a share of its initialization time. The features without the cost ----------------------------- I met this case when designing a feature-rich ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/03/07/a-small-symfony-for-a-fast-response/ I just received more than 400€ of donations from the symfony community for the birth of my daughter. My family and I are still amazed about the generosity of the gesture, and both my wife and daughter join me to express our big thanks. With the help of the money gathered ... http://redotheweb.com/2008/02/22/symfony-my-family-tells-you-merci/