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 future reference and just in case it helps anyone else. Continue reading
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:
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 proves that the interest is there for off-the-shelf solutions built upon this great framework and I feel that there’s going to be lots of exciting activity in this space over the coming months. For example I’m sure I’m not the only one who is eagerly awaiting the impending release of Magento which is based upon the Zend Framework.
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 it was on version 0.6 and already had:
To build on this already great work, today the printed book was released – which I’ve ordered. They’ve also gone one better and released the whole thing available to read online under the GFDL licence. I happen to think that this is a pretty shrewd move and hope that it will cement Symfony’s place as one of the top PHP frameworks out there along with Cake and the ZF.
If you’re a web developer and have not yet jumped into bed with a particular framework – whether self-rolled or community led – then I would strongly urge you to try out the Symfony offering. It’s the dog’s danglies.
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 accommodation for you. The job description is a mix between web development and project management. Prerequisites for working at Sensio’s are simple:
* You must be an experienced PHP developer (you should know what OOP, MVC, ORM, and unit testing mean and how to apply them)
* You must be able to manage a small web project (you should know a bit about XP programming, trac, svn, and scheduling)
* You must be able to handle the relationship with a client (not necessarily with a tie, but at least with a smile)
* You must have already developed an application with symfony (askeet doesn’t count – you must have made the askeet tutorial anyway)
* You must be willing to move to Paris, France (who wouldn’t?)
* You must be available full time and soon enough (this is a real job)French is not compulsory, since our teams speak English and the projects we work on come from all over the world. Salary is attractive, working conditions are nice, the team is fantastic, projects are fun. Plus, this is a unique opportunity to work in Paris.
If you’re interested, send a email to Fabien at fabien.potencier [at] symfony-project [dot] com. Interesting profiles will be contacted by phone during the week.