Archive for the ‘Editorial’ Category

 

Framework apathy? Daft plugins? Blog time!

July 31st, 2008

It has been a while since my last blog post, which could either be put down to long hours at work or my general apathy towards Symfony following on from Francois’ odd series of posts about the management and direction of the framework.  I guess it doesn’t help that I haven’t been given the opportunity [...]

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Mr Zaninotto calls it a day..

May 16th, 2008

For those who don’t already know, François has announced his retirement from the Symfony project team, citing differences of opinion and his exclusion from core design decisions. This is a massive blow to the project, as the documentation he wrote for the framework was the main reason it became so successful.
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Symfony 1.1: Should I be worried?

May 8th, 2008

I read Francois’ most recent view on Symfony’s verbosity and was surprised at his dissent given his core involvement with the project. I can definitely see where he is coming from, as it can’t be easy to write easy-to-digest documentation for such a complex beast. I’m wondering if it is worthwhile upgrading as I’m quite [...]

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Relocation, relocation, relocation..

May 7th, 2008

I’ve moved this blog across to one.com hosting, as I am still staring at my screen in complete disbelief at Wordpress’ staff and their inability to give me a sound, justified reason as to why they don’t allow users to upload .txt files via their admin suite. The phrase “security risk” was volleyed back at [...]

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Oh look, another Symfony blog..

April 26th, 2008

Ahaha yes! Well spotted!
I intend for this blog to be a place where I can unload my knowledge of the Symfony framework, ranging from problem-solving to old fashioned programming zealotry. I won’t be mentioning any framework other than Symfony during the lifetime of this blog, as I detest drama and would rather just get on [...]

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