Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
XCRI (Exchanging Course Related Information) is a JISC-funded project to get HE institutions to produce course data in a universally exchangeable format, so it can easily be accessed and used by other institutions, end-users, and aggregators. It's a bit like an RSS feed for courses.
Kent University have a JISC-funded mini-project ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Looks like Francois Zaninotto, one of the core symfony developers, has quit the team. He was largely responsible for the documentation, and co-authored the excellent symfony book, published by Apress.
One of the key successes behind symfony was the documentation. The fact that there was human-readable documentation, and not just an ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
I've recently been looking more closely at MySource Matrix, an open source PHP-based CMS. It's very important to realise that 'open source' is not necessarily what you might think in the real world of running an enterprise CMS.
Squiz
So what about the details of using MySource Matrix in anger? First off, ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
The symfony admin generator is one of the best features of the framework. With just a couple of commands and a few changes to a config file, you can have something pretty close to a database access interface. There's a simple built in security module, and sfGuard is fairly simple ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I've found the distinction between redirect() and forward() a little tricky to draw. It always seems to sound obvious until you need to use them. I found a nice article here http://firebird84vn.wordpress.com/category/symfony/. To quote:
The choice between a redirect or a forward is sometimes tricky. To choose the best solution, keep in ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I've been looking recently at an open source enterprise CMS called MySource Matrix. It's written in PHP5, and unusually for open source CMS actually seems to be able to cope well at enterprise level.
It's built from the ground up on an asset basis. Everything is an asset: users, content, permissions, ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
scampiandchips: Bad fish & chips
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I've recently been looking at the essential (ie why isn't it included in the core?) symfony plugin sfGuard. It offers are really nice, simple way of building a simple user, role, and permissions system into your symfony app.
The great thing is that with a little tweaking (documentation not great) you ...
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