Recently, I ran into an issue when building a Symfony plugin for Slideshow renderings. When I added the support for multiple libraries, in this case Google Slideshow2 and JQuery Cycle, they had drastically different configuration options. JQuery Cycle allows you to use a list of effects, such as blindX and blindY. These effects are great,…
The summer is here, which means that once again it is time for us to join forces to help out Ellie’s Run for Africa (ERFA), a 5k run and family fun day that raises awareness of and funding for Africans who struggle to meet basic needs such as health care, food, water, shelter, clothing and…
Thanks to Oprah (@oprah), the CNN (@cnn) / Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) follower race, and almost every other news organization, there has been a recent influx of non-tech users being introduced to the wonderful world of Twitter. In general, Twitter is a pretty basic system to use and understand: it centers around the simple question “What…
Over the last week, the developers here at CentreSource have published nine plugins for the symfony community. The plugins have been used in several of our internal projects and client web applications, but have been developed on a private repository. We finally decided the plugins were properly documented and tested. These plugins can be found…
Centre{source} ers Brent Shaffer and Travis Black led a presentation on Symfony at the Nashville PHP User Group‘s April meet-up. The presentation was part of a four part series on PHP Frameworks, including presentations on Code Igniter, CakePHP, and Zend Frameworks. The presentation covered a brief overview of Symfony‘s features and history, followed by a…
So, recently here at CentreSource we’ve been working on a project which is using the brand spanking new xServe from Apple. First, let me say the server is pretty slick, but like any other software it has issues. The reason we went with the xServe was because we needed the ability to have web applications…
Session: From Drupal Newbie to Drupal Ninja Time: 9:00am (EST) 03/03/2008 Presenter: Chad Williams (hunmonk) This presentation was targeted primarily at the Drupal newbie, and was mostly a “tips & tricks” session. Here are my notes from the session: We begin with a basic look at how Drupal works beneath the hood, so to speak….
Over at the Doctrine PHP ORM website they have just released a tutorial on how to get started using Doctrine in under 5 minutes!!! “I have put together a short and sweet tutorial on how to get started using Doctrine in under 5 minutes. A few weeks ago, we announced the sandbox package which allows…
Today, we had a client call us and ask if we can ‘save’ their website from an aggressive website designer that is holding their site hostage. I told them yes and thought an easy solution would be to find a utility that allowed us to easily clone/grab their website. I must say, I was surprised…
At CentreSource, we do everything we can to stay connected to the community around us. Recently, a great opportunity arose for us to donate our time to work with Ellie’s Run for Africa (ERFA), a 5k Race and Family Fun day that is taking place in Nashville at the end of June, that has an…
