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While I prefer using one of my macs for everything, it so happens that the place I work really relies on Microsoft to serve them everything. Not my call, but I just have to make the best of it. For this reason I have my own macbook and a windows machine at work. However, since [...]

For some reason, symfony 1.1’s new sfForm class is using sfWidgetFormSchemaFormatterTable by default, instead of sfWidgetFormSchemaFormatterList. This means that you get a form based on tables, while I prefer to think of my form as a list to fill in. To change this you can use this chain:

$form->getWidgetSchema()->setFormFormatterName(‘list’);

The question is, “where do you put this [...]

Recently I made a library for a client which needed database access, cache and configuration. For this I decided to try Zend Framework for the first time. ZF was excellent for this, because you can cherry-pick what components you want, without having to include everything. For my next project however I’m going to build a [...]

Ever since firebug was released as a developer tool for firefox, developers have asked themselves how they ever managed to live without it. In particular the powerful javascript debugger and the ability to manipulate html and css directly for testing has made it the most indispensable for web developers today.