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Apostrophe People Plugin!
We're pleased to announce a nifty new(-ish) plugin for the Apostrophe open source developer community. The Apostrophe People Plugin lets you organize and display people on Apostrophe pages. You can filter, sort, and search for people and add people…
Apostrophe Scales: Part II
Were you longing to hear the words "and one more thing" at the end of Apple's iPhone 4S press conference? Of course you were (even though the 4S is pretty darn amazing, honestly). So here's "one more thing:" serious…
Wrap it up: storing files in the cloud with PHP
Every website has media. Images, MP3 files, even Office documents, cluttering your server's disk space to the point of no return. Amazon Simple Storage Service, aka S3 is a super-popular solution to that problem. Amazon knows all about storing…
"You can do everything on the web:" fourth time's a charm?
The Google Chromebook is out. It's a laptop that boots in eight seconds and takes you straight to the web, where all your stuff lives anyway. It's a game-changing, Microsoft-killing, paradigm-shifting ball of excitement... or is it? As a web…
MySQL + NoSQL = joy + happiness
On Friday we released a shiny new Symfony plugin for those who need to store a little extra data without making a big ol' database schema change every single bingle time. Maybe you're tempted to jump ship to NoDB solutions…
Replacing Twitter: A Modest Proposal
Everybody loved Twitter, then they started pushing the other birds out of the nest, now folks are mad. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you put all your eggs in one nest. That you do not own. So let me…
Public transit data, APIs and City Government
Julie Blitzer, Uffer and Jariyasunant, #transitapps A talk at SxSW Interactive "Why are you doing this?" Julie is a lifelong New Yorker & subway rider, design geek, UX designer to nonprofits & government & good cause projects, former political staffer,…
Liveblogging "Programming and Minimalism: Lessons from Orwell and the Clash"
I'm at SxSW Interactive, attending Jonathan Dahl's talk, "Programming and Minimalism: Lessons from Orwell and the Clash." Thought I'd share the wealth with a little liveblogging action. The twitter hashtag is #minimalistprogramming Dahl is cofounder of Zencoder, which offers video…
Liveblogging Symfony Live Paris: Unconference Day
Symfony Live unconference schedule (The unconference is in the opposite wing of the building from the other two conference rooms, there is a sign at the back hall) First up: Stefan Koopmanschap, "You Are The Community", 9:30am A small group…
Liveblogging Symfony Live Paris
Josh Holmes The Lost Art of Simplicity josh.holmes@microsoft.com joshholmes.com (This guy is taking a philosophical tack and is not here just to shill for Microsoft products, good talk so far.) An American living in Ireland. "Had to go to France…
Liveblogging Symfony Live
5:35pm, Wednesday Geez o man, I liveblogged the entire conference! I honestly didn't expect to keep it up for two full days. Glad I did as it helped me focus and learn more than I would have otherwise. Lots of…
Apostrophe 1.5.1 makes everything perfect forever
Well, maybe not everything. But pretty close. We've released version 1.5.1 of Apostrophe. As the version number implies this is a bug fixing and stability-oriented release, although there are a few new touches thrown in to make a good user…
Apostrophe 1.5 Released!
At long last, Apostrophe 1.5 has been released! And it was worth the wait. Apostrophe, for the newcomers, is a content management system built on Symfony. It has been through several stable releases and is in use on many production…
Debugging Internet Explorer 7 with... Internet Explorer 8
Sadly, we are stuck with IE7 for a while yet. Market share has plummeted below the market share of IE6, but it is still over 10% and more than relevant. Although we draw the line at allowing users to administer…
Symfony 2.x, Apostrophe 1.x and Concrete
Edit: Symfony 1.4 is officially supported until November 2012, which is quite a long time in software terms. It won't be going away any time soon. We're eager to start working with Symfony 2.0. But we haven't, not yet. That's…
Quick Symfony drinkup?
Who's up for a quick Symfony show and tell this Thursday at our offices? With beer? We've got a projector... The idea is to briefly show something interesting you're doing with Symfony, or just soak up what others have to…
Open Source Business Models
Alas, open source by itself is not a business model. Very few people get rich just by coding for free all day. But I've spent a lot of time in the open source trenches over the years, and I'd like…
Apostrophe Scales: Part I
Apostrophe is a beautiful CMS, if we do say so ourselves. In-context editing and thoughtful design make it a joy to use. And this is a problem. It is a problem because people look at it and say "if it's…
Apostrophe 1.4.2 released
We've released version 1.4.2 of Apostrophe. This is a maintenance release primarily made up of stability and security fixes. We strongly recommend upgrading if you are using any 1.x version of Apostrophe. Even for those keeping up with Apostrophe's 1.4…
Apostrophe Updates
Apostrophe has received quite a few fixes and improvements over the past few months. We've made upgraded releases of our open source software available. To learn more, visit the Apostrophe developer site. Read on for a changelog of what's new…