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Pentaho Solutions: A Needed Resource With Potential for More To Come

Alex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:40:27 +0000

I recently received my pre-ordered copy of Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL (linky (amazon.com)) and felt it needed to be the first official BlueFireDS Book Review. It is the first resource available from a third-party about the excellent BI suite Pentaho (pentaho.com). If you have not worked with Pentaho [...]

Propel Fans Rejoice!

Alex — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:48:26 +0000

So recently I posted about how symfony has made the move to officially support Doctrine as the default ORM in future releases of my favorite PHP framework. A lot of questions were raised, mainly because even though Propel is still going to be supported by symfony, it looked like Propel was dead in the water [...]

Symfony Making the Move to Doctrine

Alex — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:41:37 +0000

Well, as posted yesterday on the symfony blog Doctrine will now be the defacto standard for symfony’s ORM. To be honest, I’m not surprised at all with this move – it makes sense seeing that the Doctrine team are on board at Sensio. Sensio Labs was looking for something that fit with their overall strategy [...]

Death of MySQL is Greatly Exaggerated….

Alex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:58:44 +0000

I’m noticing that quite a few folks are posting about how MySQL is going to die a slow and painful death now that Sun has been purchased by Oracle. As I commented on one site – I have to politely disagree. The MySQL franchise may very well go away or be rebranded (which I think [...]

Site Cleanup/Upgrade

Alex — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:06:23 +0000

My apologies for being away – things have been rather hectic. Anyway, today marks a new evolution to the site. I’ve cleaned up the site and now have set up the capability to show code, which has been one of the things keeping me from posting. Now that that is set up, I’ll be catching [...]

Fun with Webinars

Alex — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:15:57 +0000

So today marked the culimnation of my first webinar production experience. Over a week of preping off and on for a 45 minute conference (of which my part was about 15 mintues) sure made for a fun time. I haven’t listened to the recording yet, however I think it went well overall. Now if only [...]

Dropbox – File syncing without the hassle

Alex — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:17:16 +0000

So I’ve been playing around with a few new recommended programs I’ve found through lifehacker (two of my current favorites are RocketDock and Emerge Desktop ), but I hadn’t given Dropbox a shot until this morning, and boy I wish I had of started using it sooner. You see, DropBox is a cross-OS app (it [...]

sfAgendaCalPlugin – An Agenda Calendar for Symfony

Alex — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:30:42 +0000

Just wanted to make a quick post about some recent work I’ve been doing with the end goal being my first plugin for symfony. A customer recently requested an event calendar for their site, so I figured what better way to build one that with symfony? Currently, the calendar has a month view. I’m working [...]

When Adding Plugins To Your Symfony Project……

Alex — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:42:06 +0000

Had the roughest time getting this one going – so therefore I’m posting just in case anyone else gets stuck. Today, I started adding user security to the training database I’ve been developing in Symfony 1.1. One of the great things about a strong framework like Symfony is the ability to create/distribute plugins to increase [...]

symfony 1.1 Projects

Alex — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:05:07 +0000

So at work I have been developing my symfony skills by rebuilding some of the database systems I’ve worked on in the past (first up: update the Training Database….). I know that with symfony 1.2, javascript will be uncoupled from the framework to allow for each developer to work with their favorite javascript framework (jQuery [...]