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New 2015 Debug Toolbar Design in Symfony

The popularity of Symfony has made the debug toolbar a familiar sight for many developers. Ranging from Drupal to Bolt to eZ Publish, many different tools now share common debugging interfaces.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Monday August 3, 2015
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Symfony in a Nutshell

Symfony is a term related to software development with the PHP language. Symfony is a set of components and an HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) framework to be used in PHP programming. It released under the MIT license as Open Source.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Sunday August 2, 2015
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Learn Symfony with Silex, the Demo App and the Best Practices Book

The Symfony Full Stack framework is a fully featured platform for you to create your custom applications on top of. If you have experience with it, the structure logical and straightforward.

But as always, nobody is born an expert. The Symfony Community offers good tools to getting started with it. Here is one approach that could get you on the right path.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Thursday July 30, 2015
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Dear PHP, the times are a-changin'

The PHP community has been buzzing about all the significant releases such as PHP 7, Symfony 3 and Drupal 8 in 2015. With improved userland application frameworks, better performance and lower memory usage PHP is about to be better than ever.

Yet the world is changing and maybe PHP shouldn't (or can't) even try to keep up with the Joneses.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Tuesday July 21, 2015
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Improve Quality with Software Components

Software bugs are familiar to both the developers and users of software. In his book, the Science of Debugging, Matthew A. Telles offers the following definition for a bug: “Bugs are behaviours of the system that the development team (developers, testers and project managers) and customers have agreed are undesirable.”

Due to human errors and bad specifications, bugs will continue to be a part of software development projects. Despite improved tooling and the introduction of Agile methodologies.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Saturday July 18, 2015
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