Archive for January, 2010

Never trust doctrine:data-dump…

Friday, January 29th, 2010

...and especially not if you get the impression that the dump will afterwards be readable by the doctrine:data-load command of symfony. It was a costly lesson today when I tried to reimport a dump of a couple of Sympal tables. One of them, the one which models the menu items, has ...

Tip: Logging with Symfony >= 1.2

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Imagine you have a business method in your model which needs to be accessed by two environments: once from a symfony task and once from the web. So far so good, now what if this business method should be able to log contents somewhere visibly, in case of the command ...

monotone 0.46 released

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The monotone developers are proud to announce the release of version 0.46. The highlights in this release are bisection support - thanks to Derek Scherger! - and the possibility to call the automation interface over the network - thanks to Timothy Brownawell! Please note that stdio interface has been changed in ...

Doctrine Horror

Friday, January 15th, 2010

My latest Symfony project uses Doctrine as ORM, which is considered to be a lot better than Propel by many people... Well, not by me. Doctrine seems to have a couple of very good concepts, amongst them built-in validators, a powerful query language, and last but not least, an easy schema ...