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google chrome os

Google’s chrome os is an interesting development, both logical and interesting from a historical perspective. It is logical — the world is rapidly moving into a web based cloud space.  Other than big companies with the resources to run large environments of their own, for individuals and small organizations, it’s just so easy and logical [...]

My favorite Symfony Plugins

Art in Action Film Studio at Work

While our film crew is busy building videos, I’m taking stock of the symfony components I’ve found the most useful. I can group them as follows:

Security – the following work well together as a unit sfGuardPlugin – basic login/security sfApplyPlugin – profile management, account creation, password [...]

Doctrine vs Propel and other Symfony Plugin fun

One of the issues in Symfony land is deciding which ORM to use. The Symfony folks are making doctrine the default for 1.3, so that suggests that for new projects Doctrine would be the way to go. However, it’s not so simple. One of the attractions of using Symfony is using the plugins.  As I’ve [...]

Electronic Schoolbooks in California

By now you probably heard this story about how California may be the first state to go for electronic math and science textbooks. Given how important California is to the textbook market, this will definitely do interesting things to the market for kindle-like devices. Now if they were only in color, we could do art [...]

Version splitting in Symfony

So I’m building this website for Art In Action, and it’s all done in symfony. I really love symfony, because it makes everything so clean and structured, and one can be so productive. The admin generator is a lovely thing – I discovered how to make an entire authoring system out of it, and I’ve [...]

Kindle versus Apple Tablet

Following along on my previous post, there’s quite a discussion going on about the rumored Apple  Tablet (the “IPad), and how it will or won’t compete with the Kindle, for example here and here. We’ll have to see if Apple really does release a tablet.  And we’ll have to see if the big Kindle catches [...]