I have a SAMSUNG SyncMaster T260HD Monitor hooked to my iMac as my second monitor. I’ve had it for about 5 or 6 years and I love it. Sometimes I wish it were a little bigger, but otherwise it’s perfect. It is a TV and a Monitor. I’ve used it as a TV a couple […]
I love Coda as a text editor. I’ve been using it for years. I was hoping that they had an extension to work with Symfony. I haven’t found one. Please let me know if you know of one. I did, however, find a few things to add on. I found a Coda plugin that will
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My first step in learning Symfony is to go through the Getting Started Big Picture tutorial. I followed the instructions to install Symfony, but immediately ran into a problem when I tried to execute the new Symfony command. I got a ‘permission denied’ error. I had to change the permission to 755 on the /usr/local/bin/Symfony
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I was asked by two people yesterday this question: “What’s the best way to build my website?” One had started on Wix and was running into limitations and was thinking about WordPress.com. The other was on Weebly and having some complications. It’s a very good question. I’ll give you MY opinion. Wix.com, Weebly.com, SquareSpace.com and
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I have decided to learn symfony again. When looking for a PHP framework to use, it really wasn’t a hard decision. I did do some research to make sure that I was choosing the best framework and my research just confirmed my decision to use symfony. I do know there will be a learning curve.
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I found a cool little tool that lets me add notifications to my desktop from my websites – Hooks. It was easy to install and get working. After I downloaded the Mac app which gave me my API key, I included the javascript file in my html page. Now I can use one small javascript
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The Heartbleed bug was found in a certain version of OpenSSL last week. How does this bug affect you? Here is an explanation of the bug in cartoon format: Heartbleed Bug Cartoon If you are hosting your site with Cullen Web Services, your website was not affected. We didn’t use the version of OpenSSL that
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There are many PHP frameworks out there such as Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and many more. I don’t know that any framework is better in all things than any other framework. I think it’s probably a matter of familiarity and preference. My favorite as of this writing is Symfony. You can read about my experience
I will be doing quite a bit of traveling for the next several weeks, so I’m taking my web development on the road. Much of my traveling will be an experiment to see just how easy it is to work (or play – it’s really not work to me) on the road. With my 13-inch
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You don’t want broken links on your web pages. A broken link is a link that does not work. The link may have worked when you created the page, but if the link is to an external page, you have no control over what happens to that link. If the owner of the web page
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