http://stereointeractive.com/blog Development Blog Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:30:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I rely on Firebug daily to help me debug javascript and work with css. After upgrading to Firefox 3.5, I updated Firebug to the latest beta release, Firebug 1.4 Beta. The beta version is of course rough around the edges, and one rough spot is the fact that often when editing ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/07/01/firebug-and-firefox-35/ This is a great tutorial on SVN and it also includes a Intel disk image of SVN 1.6.1 which makes installing a breeze. Subversion With Mac OS X Tutorial. http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/05/05/installupgrade-subversion-on-mac-os-x/ Symfony has a really powerful cache mechanism, but if you turn it on and don't configure it, it will cache one file for *every possible url*, and in the case of a dynamic site with thousands of pages, this grows to many gigabytes very fast. This is especially a problem ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/04/10/symfony-cache-system-cache-growing-too-large/ Propel does not support enum column types in its schemas, since the enum type is not support across all database types. There are a few ways around this. 1) Use another table to list the enum options. Pros: most flexible. Works nicely within symfony. Cons: means more joins in your queries. ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/03/14/symfony-propel-enum-types/ If you ever find yourself wanting to return the contents of a partial as the entire response for an action, Symfony makes it possible. Using symfony partials with ajax, you have a lot of options of how you want to arrange your templates, but here I'll show you what has ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/03/11/symfony-how-to-render-a-partial-from-an-action/ I never remember how to do this. I like doing it from the terminal better than the "Compress X Items" option in the finder, because the finder method will sometimes add hidden files like __MACOSX which I don't like seeing floating around. This is so simple, it's stupid. zip [name of ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/03/05/create-zip-archive-from-the-command-line/ This came in handy today when I copied a directory from another project and didn't recognize that it was under version control in that project. Needless to say, my current project got very confused during an svn commit when it encountered this copied directory. To reconcile the situation, I had ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/02/17/recursively-delete-svn-directories/ I always have to look up the documentation on how to merge a whole SVN branch to another. Today there were bug fixes to trunk of my project that I wanted to port into my branch. I expected this to be easy since I hadn't made many changes to my ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/02/17/svn-merge-trunk-changes-to-your-branch/ This blog post by Fabien Potencier describes how to use symfony 1.2 to create link between your applications within a symfony project. This has been difficult in the past because applications within a symfony project shared only model classes and basic project configuration, but routing was handled by unique application-based ... http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/02/17/symfony-cross-application-links/ This bundle is a huge time saver if you find yourself doing a lot of searching in large projects. Ack is way faster than the built-in search and it shows results as they are found rather than all at once at the end. ack-tmbundle via protocool's ack-tmbundle at master - GitHub. http://stereointeractive.com/blog/2009/02/11/textmate-bundle-ack-in-project/