Want to know the perfect formula on how to create a frustrating system, provide terrible customer service, and manage to drive a loyal customer to hate? Just take lessons from PayPal – they are doing a great Job at really screwing up. Here’s the magic combo: First, PayPal created some security restrictions that ‘automatically’ triggered…
From the symfony-project.com website, they announced the release of symfony 1.0.2. The bug fixes include: * r3785: fixed getCookies() call in sfDebug when using sfConsoleResponse (#1666) * r3775: fixed _compute_public_path() when using a query string * r3754: updated Propel to 1.2.1 (http://propel.phpdb.org/trac/query?status=closed&milestone=1.2.1&resolution=fixed&order=priority) * r3746: fixed output escaping and _get_object_list() (#1593) * r3699: fixed highlight_text() doesn’t…
Today, symfony-forge.com has officially launched a beta version of the site. The site will remain beta for the coming weeks, and later a Trac/SVN migration will take place from symfony-project.com to symfony-forge.com.
When we first moved to symfony, my only major concern was Propel. I was pushing to move to Rails, but we gave symfony a shot and ended up absolutely loving it. The two best features of symfony are the plugin architecture and how configurable it is. The only thing we could not live with was…
I just found a great backup app (utility) for my USB drive. The app that comes with PortableApps isn’t very flexible and it drove me to finding something better. Luckily, I found Freebyte Backup through PortableFreeware.com. They even told me how to ‘make it more portable’ by avoiding the installation and simply running the .EXE…
In the early years, some could argue that having a website, albeit bad, was still superior to not having one at all. Websites were not the ‘norm’ and having one proved that your firm was unique and cutting edge. Fast forward 10 years and this is no longer the case – every business and organization…
