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We are happy and proud to announce the victory of LaFourchette.com mobile website in the “M site” contest! http://www.lemsitedelannee.fr/Gagnants.aspx (FR) The application has been designed by LaFourchette and developed by Theodo. What is LaFourchette.com? The purpose of LaFourchette.com are to offer to its users…

Just after two major PHP events (Forum PHP and sfLive in Paris) we met once again during AFSY's monthly sfPot. Last Tuesday (June 12) it was @LaNetscouade that invited us to their offices. This time Theodo prepared the presentation. We -…

With the intent of testing our projects in separate environments, I have been working recently on simple fabric scripts for automating LXC containers creation; a basic one can be found at https://github.com/raphaelpierquin/fabulxc, however the context was slightly more complicated here,

The upcoming week will be really busy as two main conferences for the french PHP community will take place in Paris. First the Forum PHP organized by AFUP from Tuesday to Wednesday at Cité universitaire. Going there you will meet many French…

Today I will explain how to test your entities in a Symfony2 and Doctrine2 project. To achieve our work, we will work on a location model which will look somewhat like this: Location:address: string, required zip code: string, required city: string, required country: string, requiredTest…

Symfony2 has been around for quite a while. Personally, I love how much PHP-oriented it is. It feels much closer to the language base than the first version of the framework. It means less of the magic and more of…

Version française plus bas Theodo will be present at the Open World Forum, as I have been selected to talk about "Adopting DevOps philosophy" on Friday, Sept. 23 at 16:30. I am very happy to be able to spread the good word…

We often have to face the problem of importing data off an Excel file with thousands lines.PHP is not suited for this task, it’s slow and there is a high risk for the import to crash due to "memory limit"…

Sometimes you just need to output the number of objects related to another, but this simple operation can be a major blow performance-wise. I hope this trick I use a lot in my symfony + doctrine developments will save you some time. Let's consider…

Fear you will send the unwanted emails to other people when testing your software?If you use Postfix, you can follow these simple steps: Put into /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtp_generic_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/generic And into /etc/postfix/generic: /.*/ laurentb+test@theodo.fr Reload postfix (this might depend on your distribution): # /etc/init.d/postfix reload This will…