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There are a lot of poor souls that are forced to use Windows as an OS for their daily development job. I’m one of them. I heard even of people enjoying working on Windows There is one thing in common for them: […]

UPDATE: This article is outdated. Please take a look at my more current one “How to build a great Eclipse-Environment for Symfony2-Development”

Using Windows and Eclipse is sometimes a pain if you develop […]

I have developed a lot with Symfony2 in the last months. During this time I switched my development environment a lot too find the tools that fit my workflow as good as possible. Now we have a stable release of […]

As I wrote in my last blog post, I was surprised about how good Eclipse fits for the development of Symfony2 projects. Long years I have avoided to work with Eclipse if possible. The reason was that the plain IDE […]

Last week I attended the Symfony Day 2011 in cologne. The event was great and really well organized. I went there for the conference day at friday. From what I heared the thursday workshops were good. The […]

As I wrote in a previous post I’m working on a brand new Symfony2 based version of CuteFlow. I was on vacation the last 4 weeks so there was not that much progress at all but I want to inform you about the current status of the project: The basic infrastructure is up and running. That means [...]

Last week I started to completly rewrite the open-source workflow management software CuteFlow ( http://www.cuteflow.org). The new version 4 will be created with Symfony2 and will have a great feature set, helping you to create rule based workflows easily. The development take place on GitHub. I will work on CuteFlow nearly fulltime the next weeks, so…[Read more]

Over the years I read a lot of books regarding PHP-Development, Software-Design and -architecture. Some of them where good others not. Here is my book of books I really like and think they a worth to share them. Do you miss one? Please comment. I will try to keep the list up to date. While most [...]

Hallo, die neue Version 2 des Symfony-Frameworks wirft seine Schatten voraus. In Kürze wird die Version 2.0 als stabile Version freigegeben werden. Mit der neuen Version ändert sich die Entwicklung von Symfony-Projekten deutlich. Bereits heute wird Symfony2 von vielen für Produktivsysteme eingesetzt, da es große Verbesserungen mit sich bringt und…[Read more]

Two months ago I blogged about my experiences of giving a Symfony2 training course with the PR7 release of Symfony2. The last three days I gave another in-depth Symfony2 training course, this time using beta3 / beta4. It was interessting to see how much Symfony2 has evolved over the last two month. There were improvements at every [...]

Hallo, die neue Version 2 des Symfony-Frameworks wirft seine Schatten voraus. In Kürze wird die Version 2.0 als stabile Version freigegeben werden. Mit der neuen Version ändert sich die Entwicklung von Symfony-Projekten deutlich. Bereits heute wird Symfony2 von vielen für Produktivsysteme eingesetzt, da es große Verbesserungen mit sich bringt und…[Read more]

As I’m working with Netbeans when developing Symfony2-Applications I created some Code Templates and Shortcuts to work more effective with Netbeans and Symfony2. If you are interessted you can download the Settingsfile and import it to your Netbeans installation. There is a Symfony 1.x and Symfony2 version available. You can get it here: [Read more]

Update: I wrote a more detailed cookbook for the Symfony2 documentation which is online from today: Documentation   As I told you in my last blog entry , I had the problem that there is no documentation on how to use the PdoSessionStorage in Symfony2. I opened a question on Stackoverflow but there was no one who could help me. Yesterday [...]

I have given my first Symfony2 training session last week. It was a bit short (two-days) but I was able to cover the basic parts of Symfony2. As I have given a lot of symfony 1 trainings in the last three years I was pretty excited how this session will work out. Everything was new, [...]