Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer.
His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
It happens more and more: large projects where your symfony2 site is just a small part in the big picture. Lots of additional components might even play a bigger part, especially when you are dealing with asynchronous components which are connected through message queues for instance. So the question is: we want to make sure…
If you know Symfony2, you probably are using (or at least, have heard of) the @paramConverter annotation from the SensioFrameworkExtraBundle. This is a really simple way to convert slugs into entities. But lots of times I find myself having multiple slugs inside my routes, and this is something the @paramConverter annotation cannot do. So that’s why…
Doctrine’s DataFixtures are a great way to add test data to your application. It’s fairly easy to get this going: Create a fixureLoader that extends Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture, had a load() method and off you go. However, sometimes you want your data also to be protected by Symfony 2′s ACL layer. Since there isn’t a common way to do this,…
As you may now by now, I’m a big fan of using Puppet for configuration management. Since the rise of virtualization, these applications are becoming one of the more dominant tools in a developers tool chain. Together with other tools, setting up a complete development environment with just a single command is not only reality,…
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