PUBLIC MARKS from "Xavier Lacot" with tag developement

Un tutoriel simple pour attaquer Symfony 2...

Firebug Lite easily integrated into Chrome. Even if I am not a fan of Chrome, because of the omnipotence of Google, I find this tool very useful as a debug facility.

A complete tutorial about route collections, which explains in detail what it is and how to use it.

The MySQL Workbench Doctrine Plugin is a plugin developed for MySQL Workbench which is a tool for developing MySQL databases with a graphical interface. Even developing MySQL databases with Workbench you can use the .yml output for usage with every database supported by doctrine.

A performant key-value database. A PHP module is available, that lets PHP access to Redis in a performant way.

The talk of Stefan about Integrating symfony and Zend Framework, during the PHPBarcelona Conference 2009

The website of Lithium, the fork of the CakePHP framework, made by two of its core members.

Joe Damato has added libdl support in ltrace, which makes tracking down slow queries really easy. Performance performance performance !

A dynamic CSS framework inspired by Shaun Inman's CSS Cacheer. It's aimed at experienced CSS developers - it gives you the tools to create great CSS easily. It abstracts some repetitive and annoying flaws of the language to make it easier to create and maintain, all while giving you the benefits of caching.

Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates. One type of asynchronous and worker solution I could use in the implementation of asynchronousity in Symfony's media plugin

The work for supporting for Symfony PHP Framework in NetBeans 6.8 is finished. This should make Netbeans the default editor for PHP developers, far before Eclipse. As for me, I'll stick to Textmate :)

CAHAYA CMS is an open source management system built on top of the Zend Framework, which makes building websites extremely easy. Even if interesting, the project is still very young and suffers some conception limitations - the lack for structured content is one of the greatest, in my opinion.

Uploadify is a jQuery plugin that allows the easy integration of a multiple (or single) file uploads on your website

A simple guide on how to use Flex from within Symfony. The tutorial helps creating a simple client with a text field and a button, and shows all the mechanism involved in the communication to the Symfony backend server.

Dave gives his feedback on a long-debated developement topic : storing files in database or on the filesystem. "I had been serving images via the database. Immediately when I switched to the filesystem I saw a huge benefit. Not just a drop in database connections, but overall “zippiness” in the site. We’ll see how well this performs in the real world, but I am quite sure that I learned my lesson." All this makes sense : files are not data, they are just files. A filesystem is designed for hosting files. A database is designed for hosting data. Don't mess things.

Bespin is the new prject of the Mozilla Labs. It is an online code editor. The first 0.1 release includes support for basic editing features, such as syntax highlighting, large file sizes, undo/redo, previewing files in the browser, importing/exporting projects, etc.

"The news is that the Symfony support will be part of NetBeans 7.0. We are going to start work on it very soon. I hope that it will be a part of continual build this year and community can comment the support and work with us to finish it in the best possible quality and usability."

EditArea is a free javascript editor for source code, which allows to write well formated source code with line numerotation, tab support, search & replace (with regexp) and live syntax highlighting (customizable).

WTFramework bookmarklet is a Firefox bookmarklet that lets you know which js framework is being used by a web page

Forte d’une expérience éprouvée des frameworks PHP majeurs, Clever Age publie aujourd’hui un livre blanc au sujet des frameworks PHP pour l’entreprise.

Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.

We have unleashed the Dragonfly! Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow.

Late Static Binding (LSB, yes, not LSD) is an OO feature that is meant to be implemented in PHP 6, and maybe even backported to PHP 5. This article will describe what LSB is, what problems it's supposed to solve and how.

YSlow analyzes any web page and generates a grade for each rule and an overall grade. If a page can be improved, YSlow lists the specific changes to be made.

After almost four years of work, Xdebug 2 is finally ready. With improved functionality and many new features it is ready to totally change the way you develop in PHP.... Nothing less ? :)