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Word 2007 save as PDF

By bealers on September 28, 2007 0 Short URL: http://beale.rs/5n

I have Office 2007 and I have Adobe CS3 (on Vista). Adobe CS3 comes with Acrobat and Acrobat Distiller but I’ve not been able to get Word 2007 to play nicely with either so I can create PDFs from Word like I used to. I was about to sit down and fix the issue once [...]

CSS support in modern email clients

By bealers on September 16, 2007 1 Short URL: http://beale.rs/cp

Whatever your opinion about HTML emails if you are charged with writing them then you’ll definitely want to make sure that they are as consistent as possible across the board for desktop and webmail clients. Well, luckily for us the guys over at campaign monitor came up with a really useful guide drilling down into [...]

Setting PHP error reporting from a vhost or .htaccess

By bealers on August 16, 2007 1 Short URL: http://beale.rs/4w

Here on our dev servers we turn PHP error reporting full on so we get to know of any issues with our code well before it hits production (where errors are turned off). This does however cause problems with older legacy sites that generate reams of warning errors because the developers were slack and – [...]

Symfony’s most popular plugins

By bealers on August 15, 2007 0 Short URL: http://beale.rs/5r

Francios a core member of the Symfony team recently blogged about the 20 most popular plugins of the Symfony project based upon page views. That list is: sfSimpleCMSPlugin sfGuardPlugin sfPropelActAsNestedSetBehaviorPlugin sfMediaLibraryPlugin sfSimpleBlogPlugin sfSimpleForumPlugin sfFeed2Plugin sfgWidgetsPlugin sfThumbnailPlugin sfUJSPlugin sfControlPanelPlugin sfFormValidationPlugin sfMogileFSPlugin sfLightboxPlugin sfCaptchaPlugin sfNiftyPlugin sfPrototypeWindowPlugin sfPropelLoadbalancerPlugin sfSavvyPlugin sfYzClientSideValidationPlugin I find it very interesting that the ‘simple’ [...]

Workshops For Web People

By bealers on August 14, 2007 0 Short URL: http://beale.rs/6d

I recently got wind of a new workshop on The Multipack’s forum called Transcending CSS being presented by CSS don Andy Clarke of Britpack, and this book fame. Not sure what bribes they used to get him doing this but it’s definitely happening and I’ve already booked my place before they sell out. I also [...]

installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS

By bealers on August 2, 2007 7 Short URL: http://beale.rs/4c

I was recently asked if I’d sucessfully got the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS working and I’m afraid my answer was no. I had tried briefly when preparing for my talk, but something didn’t work and I carried on with other things. Being reminded of it and having an hour to kill before I head off to [...]

Come and work with me

By bealers on July 30, 2007 0 Short URL: http://beale.rs/6x

After recently passing the 1 year milestone I’ve decided to bite the bullet and take on a couple of extra resources at Siftware increasing the headcount to 5. The aim is to free me up to spend more time on managing this and other business interests. I don’t do this lightly as it’s a huge [...]

A Pragmatic Look At Symfony

By bealers on July 29, 2007 8 Short URL: http://beale.rs/5s

On Thursday I presented to around 30 developers attending the July Bristol Skillswap at Bristol’s Watershed. It was my first ever public speaking gig (if you ignore some sales presentations) and I’m delighted by how well it went. The talk was a ten minute powerpoint introduction and then 45 mins of live coding – this [...]

New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

By bealers on July 17, 2007 1 Short URL: http://beale.rs/64

Preparing for my talk I was on the Symfony wiki and came across this: This plugin allows you to add a simple Content Management System (CMS) to your symfony application with the following features: * Uses Javascript and Ajax to provide a neat user experience * Edit zones in pages * Edit page URL (you [...]