Symfony, the PHP5 framework that I’ve firmly adopted at work for any new bespoke projects went to version 1.0 RC1 this week. Symfony is great, not just because it allows developers like me to get on and build complex, easily maintainable apps but also because the documentation is superb. When I picked it up 5 months ago [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2007
Just a quick plug for a project that we put live today: Caffeica. It’s something new for us as normally the build of something like this is a very simple affair and once it is built we’ll deal with the client now and again for updates. For Caffeica we’ll be marketing the site and using [...]
Continue reading...23. January 2007
My kids are 4 on Saturday and they think that’s pretty special. They particularly like the fact that they get to have a party. With this in mind my own personal domestic goddess, Cathie, has been preparing for the party by getting odds and ends in, including music for it. For some reason no-one could understand why [...]
Continue reading...23. January 2007
Casey Cole, my energetic, overachieving and inspirational friend recently moved to Italy full-time with his wife Tessa and their little boy, Henry. We’ve not seen the house (yet) as our twins were < 1 yr old when they got married so for the reasons obvious to anyone that has more than one newborn at the same [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2007
Sensio, Fabien Potencier’s company yesterday announced a great sounding job right up there in the ticks all the boxes category: Whether you currently live in the US or in Poland, if you know symfony well enough, we’re interested. The positions are in Paris, France, and we are willing to do the necessary paperwork and look for [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2007
Broken Javascript in IE *really* sucks as one gets really obscure error messages and alert(); becomes your only friend, or so I thought. I’ve recently done quite a lot of javascript DOM work for a site including some AJAX stuff and whilst it was a pleasure to develop in Firefox using Firebug, I’m now getting “it [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2007
I just watched this parody, funny-coz-it’s-true move, up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclYmVaORbM LOL
Continue reading...1. January 2007
It’s new years day 2007 and I’m sure I’m not the only person getting a few goals noted down for the coming year. As a bit of a break from forward thinking, here’s a quick review of 2006. Biggest happening The combined selling of Exponetic, moving from London after 8 years, downshifting and the setting up of Siftware. [...]
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31. January 2007
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