Tag: cmf

Improving the User Experience of the Symfony CMF Backend

Contrary to frontend experience, CMS backend experience is rarely adapted to the needs and tasks of its real users: the few people who publish and administrate the site. Standard …

Symfony Live in Berlin: Lots of Symfony in Germany

Last week, I went to Berlin to present the Symfony Content Management Framework to the German PHP crowd. I did a presentation almost exclusively based on code. I showed how to develop …

Discussions and Pizza at PHPDay Italy

Last week, I was invited to do a Symfony Content Management Framework tutorial at the PHPDay in Verona. I saw great talks, most notably a demo of Docker. I had a good crowd of people …

Updating old Symfony2 CMF projects

We released RC1 of the Symfony CMF last week. Now it is time now to upgrade older installations to the latest and greatest. I decided to keep a record of what i had to do and write it …

Symfony CMF: what is left todo?

Just as Fabien did in his “ Symfony 2.2 Schedule Update” I would first like to wish everyone a happy 2013. But as Fabien did, I also want to get back to business now too. Over the …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener

Summer vacation in open source land

So I decided to take 2 months off this summer, quite on short notice so I would like to thank the Liip management to be so flexible on this. Of course I don't really ever take off from …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener

Semantic web meets frontend-awesomeness

Frontend editing is a hot topic at the moment. With the HTML5 content-editable, there is no longer any excuse to reload a page in edit mode and render forms on server side. And even …

Doctrine PHPCR-ODM now handles versioning

The Doctrine PHPCR-ODM allows you to easily map your PHP objects onto content repository nodes. Since last week, the PHPCR-ODM leverages the versioning support of PHPCR in the ODM …

What Liip did after winning the IKS semantics UX contest

As you maybe have heard, we won the IKS Semantics UX contest a few weeks ago (see this and this for more details). We of course we're not lazy in the meantime and integrated Apache …