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Font usage on the web is a critical matter. Well I guess it’s critical while working with other media too, but if you’re a graphic designer and you’re not that familiar with the best practices of website creation, you might…

My conference about adopting DevOps philosophy on Symfony projects is now online! In this presentation you will see what I think is the philosophy behind the DevOps movement and how to start with the 4 important aspects of adopting DevOps:Configuration Management…

I had the chance to spread the good word by talking about adopting DevOps in Symfony projects at the Symfony Live conference. The feedback was very good (for those who attended and have not done so yet, you can give…

This issue might be familiar to some of you: you have ssh access to a server with sudo rights on it and you want to transfer files with rsync. However, since these files are not directly accessible from your ssh user (because…

A project is never finished, and at Theodo we often have to quickly alter a project, in a small way. The issue is that the time required to having the project ready on a developer's machine can be greater that…

Yesterday, December first, Theodo had the pleasure to host the improvised first Paris Devops meetup in our new office! Samuel Maftoul and Philippe Müller managed to gather a very interesting and mixed crowd of devs and ops to discuss on the promising ideas that the Devops movement is bringing in the agile develpoment world. Were present : Sergio Simone Bruno Michel Vincent Hardion Claude Falguière Ludovic Piot Alexandre Rodière Raphaël Pierquin Philippe Muller Laurent Bossavit Samuel Maftoul Vermeer Grange Cyrille Le Clerc François de Metz Fabrice Bernhard It was also the occasion to ask Laurent Bossavit to sign his book Gestion de projet : Extreme Programming which is our bible here at Theodo, a great honour :-) There were too many subjects and too little time during this first session to really tackle the technologies and ideas behind devops but it was a great occasion to meet diverse people and create a first contact. A very promising start for this new meetup!

December just started, and with it its usual christmas spirit, Santa Claus, happy children and.... the symfony advent calendar! This year the symfony advent calendar is a collection of articles written by different symfony experts: http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2009/12/01/one-more-thing and is already available as a book…

As promised during the last symfony live conference, I finally release my current work on a Facebook Connect Plugin for symfony. It is inspired by the good sfFacebookPlugin by Jonathan Todd, which has however been unmaintained for quite some time.

sfEasyGMapPlugin 1.0.4 is out and the good news is : the plugin is the 24th most used symfony plugin among the 457 available on http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/ ! We are now 5 official developers, not counting all the developers I work with…

sfEasyGmapPlugin is a very easy to use Google Maps API plugin for symfony, inspired by the Phoogle class... but better :-) A very simple version has been available for a few months but I have now finally released the 1.0 version,