Category Archives: Languages

How to use a symfony 1 layout from a different directory

In symfony 1 it is possible to have different layouts for an application. But they all have to be put into the directory ‘myproject/apps/frontend/templates/’. But what if you want to use a layout from another location? Assume you make a … Continue reading

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Read from Excel in ASP

I always had a hard time finding correct documentation on the old ASP (active server pages) language and I needed it one more time in the last few days to create a script that read from an excel file. As … Continue reading

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How to force symfony colors on windows with PuttyCyg?

Those of you who’re developing with symfony under windows will have noticed that, when running tasks in the command prompt, no colors are used. This is because the windows command prompt isn’t compatible with the color notation. Most of you … Continue reading

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html 5 experiment

This is super cool!!!! 9Elements created a completely html page containing nothing more then Javascript and some of the tags that are created in the new HTML version. This is really amazing as it is really the first time that … Continue reading

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The future of Web: HTML 5 by Google

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an infinite image carousel

One of my favorite blogs is that of jQuery 4 Designers and this time he created a cool tutorial on how to create one with jQuery. It has always been a struggle to create a nice carousel but i think … Continue reading

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the future of web development

It is always hard to tell what the future will bring, especially in a world where everything is evolving so quickly. But it’s always good to know what libraries, languages or applications will influence the way we work or the … Continue reading

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Mantis in Eclipse with Mylyn

This is a post especially for those who use Mantis as a bug tracker software and Eclipse as development software. For our PHP and JAVA development we do all the programming in Eclipse and wouldn’t it be easy if Eclipse … Continue reading

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TestFest 2009

Tomorrow on the 9th of may an event called ‘PHP TestFest 2009′ will take place in the offices of Combell. (visit the website) What is TestFest you ask? The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage … Continue reading

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Basic forms with Symfony

Our goal is to create a little crud that contains 4 fields id (auto increment integer) name (varchar 50) value (double) type (0 or 1) What I will explain is how to change your fields in the form after creation … Continue reading

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