Understanding how the Front Controller, Kernel and Environments work together in Symfony2
We had a little dicussion recently on which parts play toghether when booting a Symfony2-based application. In particular, there's the front controller, the "AppKernel" and the choice of a particular "environment". mehr lesen
Embedding accessible and crossbrowser-compatible SVGs into your website
When we relaunched our website in February, we had a set of design goals we wanted to achieve. One of those was to cater for high resolution displays. Using a svg (Scalable Vector Graphic) image for the company logo seemed to be a foregone conclusion. After all, vector-based logos are uniquely suited for the web's vector image format. However, like everyone starting out with svg, we ran into some problems when we noted down our requirements: mehr lesen
Der 10000. Fall für Inspektor Kiwi
Wir feiern diese Woche den zehntausendsten Fall in unserer Projektmanagement-Software FogBugz (www.fogbugz.com)! Unter den wachsamen Augen des Kiwi-Maskottchens verwalten wir hier seit ziemlich genau zwei Jahren alle großen und kleinen Aufgaben in unseren Projekten. mehr lesen
ec2-snapshot-filesystem for taking backups of EBS volumes
I just released ec2-snapshot-filesystem over there at code.webfactory.de. mehr lesen
The underscore affair - No cookies for IE!
Let me tell you yet another story about IE as the perfect weekend companion: I was deploying a web application to a customer's test environment for some finishing touches. I soon noticed that I could not login with IE, while everything worked fine with the "normal guys" (FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari...). Some frustrating hours of curl/telnet/tcpdump, crawling forums and reading blogs followed, but the only thing I could say is that IE was constantly ignoring the session cookie. mehr lesen
Behind the curtain: preparing an interface for themes with rgba goodness
This is a peak under the hood of an ongoing project. mehr lesen
Inspiration break at ADC Summit 2010 and a sneak peek of things to come
From time to time, it's good to raise your head over the rim of your cubicle and take a look around. In a daring attempt to fulfill my desire for an overdue escape from day-to-day work, I ventured to Frankfurt and this year's ADC Summit Expo with projekt-pr's Rüdiger Hahn and Anke Schöneweiß, a freelance graphic designer. 11.000 square metres worth of design samples were waiting for us on this sunny Saturday. mehr lesen
CVS2Mercurial — Or how to escape from servitude
For a long time now, we have been suffering from the limitations and errors of CVS. For almost as long we have been dreaming of a fast, stable and simple version control system (VCS) to replace it. mehr lesen
Templating with PHPTAL: Don't make your designer think (about the wrong things)
In former times, when some of us started to generate dynamic websites using PHP, we tended to generate XHTML output for, let's say, a blog post like this: mehr lesen
8 Golden Rules for Apprentices
Last week, we finally found a second apprentice and completed our team lineup for 2010. Simon Mönch will be joining us from May 1st to learn the craft of software development and Jessica Lazarus starts her apprenticeship for digital media design on August 1st. mehr lesen