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Debugging with PhpED and DBG

Sunday, January 20, 2008

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As long-term PhpED user I’ve always been well aware that I was not making the most of some of the more powerful features of my IDE, particularly the debugging capabilities. Well this week I finally got debugging set-up properly and as per most of my other blog posts I’m listing what I did here for [...]

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A Blank Wordpress Theme

Sunday, December 16, 2007

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I’ve just uploaded a blank Wordpress theme called Naked that I built to assist those (like myself in the past) who have a need to quickly roll-out a Wordpress theme with a custom look and feel but may not necessarily have the time to start from scratch. It is purposely very simple and basic, but I’ve [...]

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Symfony’s most popular plugins

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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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’ ones are all in the top 6 with the CMS one - which is very new - already taking up top spot. It [...]

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installing the Symfony plugin sfSimpleCMS

Thursday, August 2, 2007

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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 the [...]

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Come and work with me

Monday, July 30, 2007

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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 [...]

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A Pragmatic Look At Symfony

Sunday, July 29, 2007

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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 was [...]

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New Symfony plugin: sfSimpleCMSPlugin

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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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 can use / in [...]

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A Symfony talk at Bristol Skillswap

Monday, July 16, 2007

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So it’s public now, I’ll be doing a stand-up talk on Symfony for Bristol Skillswap on the 26th July in the Watershed.

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Symfony book released and codebase tagged 1.0 RC1

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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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 [...]

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Symfony job going

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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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 [...]

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