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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Symfony Almost Live
You'll want to watch fullscreen for readability. Which web development framework is the best? I can tell you this: Symfony gets the job done fast. Last week Alex and I took part in a panel discussion of web frameworks…
Symfony 2 hub-bub
Symfony is the best framework for building web applications in PHP. The forthcoming Symfony 2 is a dramatic improvement and a complete rewrite with many new features and, even more importantly, better software architecture. Enthusiasts may have heard about the…
No Symfony users group meeting this week
We're looking at doing a meeting the following week or possibly next month. Fact is, we're busy! Speaking of Symfony and being busy, if this announcement disappoints you— if you're eager to hobnob with other Symfony developers— may I suggest…
We're hiring a new developer
Things are moving pretty fast lately on our corner of E. Passyunk and Federal. Apostrophe is rolling along at a full clip and we have all sorts of other exciting projects we're in the midst of. Olivia Rabe recently…
Faster, Windows PHP! Kill! Kill!
IN WHICH our hero is narrowly saved by vague memories of a really dull presentation by some guys in suits. You may recall my recent post on speeding up PHP on Linux without changing your PHP code. Those techniques have…
Open Source Help Desk
TOM: "Open source help desk, this is Tom speaking. How may we help each other?" CALLER: "I chose your open source project for my client project and it's due tomorrow and it doesn't work! This is your problem and you…
Philly Symfony Users Group: ASSEMBLE!
Sure, geeks have grabbed Philly by the balls, but that doesn't mean we can't sharpen our... skills... where am I going with this? Oh yeah: the Philly Symfony Users Group. We use the Symfony framework for PHP development all day…