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Symfony Hacking Day Toolset Series: Part IV
What is needed as for tools in a hacking day you would ask? or how to do it? Travis: Travis is your friend because for instance in helping reproducing an issue under a Symfony Standard (SE)...
View ArticleSymfony Hacking Day D Day Series: Part V
Time is up guys, time to start focusing on the hacking day. My last notes about this go about the hanging out and getting to know symfony/symfony core better. So I have spent quite a bit amount of time...
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Hacking Day at Warsaw Series: Part VI
I think the success of events are clear. We have a SymfonyCon with two interesting presentations, “How to pitch Symfony to your client” and “Community Building with Mentoring: What makes people crazy...
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Hacking Day Warsaw Symfony Series: Part VII
Numbers do need to be taken care as they have no mathematical precision nor are they updated to the last minute since some things are hard to get noted on the same spreadsheet. But they are worst...
View ArticlePHPUnit Symfony Test Suite
Recently I was looking at tests at the symfony/symfony repository and found some interesting things. Because there were so many skipped tests I wanted to know the reason why so many tests on symfony...
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Composer The Latest of Our Alpha – Symfony2 Tricks
Ok folks, time to get up to speed with the latest developments in composer. Composer is trying hard to get out of alpha version. Let’s help spread the word to summon support and contribute. Here is the...
View ArticleDDD Series: Domain vs Frameworks (Symfony2, Silex, Cilex, YOLO, et al)
Sometime ago, last year, I gave a talk on DDD relating PhpSpec, Behat, Cilex, Symfony, YOLO, stackphp usage, and a demo. The conference recently published my video talk. Here is the talk for your...
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Deconstructing Symfony: Part I – Getting Rid of Bad Practices Takes Effort
I tried to avoid the bad practice of generating code. So I decided it was enough and created a custom Application.php class on my app/ folder and use that instead inside the console script. Something...
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Bldr.io and Gushphp.org: Great tools!
If you are a TDD practitioner you don’t want to miss this. We recently removed Grunfile.js from our Gushphp repository. And we replaced it all with Bldr.io. Bldr.io is written on PHP! And is an...
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Mastering Legacy Application Development: Paul M Jones Examined
Oh boy! that is my expression as I start to edit the book from Paul M Jones that just came out. I will sum it up in saying you will be rewarded that you got to read this book. Especially when you did...
View ArticleEn Route to DrupalCon Austin 2014
I am trying to see if I can take a stab at Drupal project. I have cloned it and checked out the core a bit, mostly the components and the core. One first impression is the familiarity with Symfony and...
View ArticleDeconstructing Symfony: Part II – Clean up your project
I have some controversial practices with Symfony projects. One of them is to remove the bundles that are really for newcomers and that actually I would have wished never deal with. But all has pros and...
View ArticleThe Symfony Exam Drill (Unofficial)
I have prepared people to take the Symfony Certification Exam. These are a battery of questions I would like to share for free. They will help you just prepare for any exam, not just Symfony...
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Drupal8.x and Symfony Developing Minding BC on Upgrades – Ajax Core...
So today I grabbed the Ajax core component. At first it seemed daunting because I did not know what I was going to find in so many flat directory structure. But after a bit of analysis I discovered...
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Drupal8.x and Symfony – Asset Component: Part IV Series
Tonight I took a look at the Asset component. I was a bit reluctant because by the looks of it I thought of it being large, many files and folders. It has a lot of implementation specific classes and...
View ArticleDrupal8.x and Symfony – Controller Practices: Part V Series
So today I ran into Drupal Controllers core component or folder. And I found this ContentFormControllerSubscriber under the Subscriber folder: /** * Subscriber for setting wrapping form logic. */ class...
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Drupal8.x and Symfony – Interfaces and Serializer Component: Part VI Series
First a note on Interfaces. I did a regexp search on Drupal core code for construct\((.*)Interface in order to find out about some extension points and looking at the output start scanning which,...
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Drupal8.x and Symfony/Aura – The Importance of Testing and Decoupling: Part...
So all started with an issue on github https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/10920. You don’t have to turn there, basically one core Drupal developer asked about whether we at Symfony wanted some...
View ArticleDrupal8.x and Symfony/Aura – DrupalCon 2014 talk video and slides
Click here to view the embedded video. Series: Drupal8.x and Symfony/Aura – The Importance of Testing and Decoupling: Part VII Series Drupal8.x and Symfony – Interfaces and Serializer Component: Part...
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From Symfony to Gush: The Game Changer Tool for All Git Communities
Gush can do a lot of things already so I am going to start pounding on a Gush series :). Gush not only can check your outdated dependencies and send a PR to update these: Welcome to Gush its site and...
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