Tag: symfony2

On the Migros API – Core principles and challenges

At Liip, we develop an API that provides product information and other data for Migros, the biggest retailer in Switzerland. Let us explain the core principles and challenges we had …
François Terrier

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 …

HHVM with Symfony 2 looks amazing

With the recent announcement of Facebook that their HHVM is now more and more compatible with most of the popular framework, I was intrigued to finally try it out. We're currently …

RESTing with Symfony2

This weekend I had the opportunity to attend and speak at Symfony Camp UA in Kiev. This event was organized already for the 5th time and draws many developers from the region. While I …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener

How to preload ACL in order to get good performances

Symfony2 comes with an ACL mechanism that can help you whenever you need to add some permissions in your system. Some typical use cases could be to determine if a user has the …
Jean-Christophe Zulian

Playtime with OroCRM

We continued our exploration of e-commerce applications in the Symfony2 ecosystem at this months hackday with some playtime with OroCRM. OroCrm is currently in alpha phase and is …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener

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

Touring North America

After pretty much exactly a month I have concluded my north american “tour” featuring speaking at Confoo in Montreal, a PHP UG meeting on Boca Raton and last, but definitely not least …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener