Symfony 2: Why You Should Move Your Logic into a Service
In typical MVC applications, people end up storing business logic into either the controller or the model layer. The problem
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Kontroversial Keith
Hitting Where It Hurts and Making the Universe Like It
Kontroversial Keith
Hitting Where It Hurts and Making the Universe Like It
programming
Symfony 2: Annoying Issue with Data Transformers, DateTime, Timezones and PHP.ini
I spent almost the entire day going through the low level code of Symfony 2 trying to determine a really
Read MorePHP: References, Scoping, Arrays and Function Design
Surprisingly, a lot of PHP code that I see in the industry rarely makes use of the ideas of references.
Read MorejQuery: Autocomplete Issue with Select
I found an interesting undocumented consequence when you override the _renderItem function with one of your own. Most people might
Read MoreSymfony 2: Many-to-Many Relationships and Form Elements
One of the things I’m developing a love for with Symfony 2 is how Doctrine, forms and Twig work together
Read MoreJust Tried oDesk
A friend of mine was talking about giving oDesk a shot for contracting/freelancing. Since I’m looking for various possibilities in
Read MoreSymfony 2: Working with the Security Layer and Database Backends
The examples over on the Symfony 2 site regarding building a security system, while decent, are somewhat incomplete and a
Read MoreSymfony 2: Form Data Submit and Models with Validation Unit Testing Issue
While creating a phpunit test against a form for Symfony 2, I encountered an interesting problem that made little sense
Read MoreSymfony 2: Unit Testing Many-to-One Validations on Entities
From what I can tell, the Symfony 2 cookbook does not have a decent example for handling entity validations and
Read MoreBlogging about Coding and Why You Should Do It
Back in high school, one of my stricter English instructors forced us to keep a daily log to get us
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