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The State of Symfony 2 Online Conference

In February many people gathered in Paris to witness the unveiling of the first preview version of Symfony 2. If you were not able to attend, or were there but want more, then mark June 22 or June 23 in your calendar. For those dates, an online conference will take place named The State of Symfony 2.
May 31, 2010 #Living on the edge

Symfony 2.0 and the PHP Ecosystem

This post is about one key aspect of the Symfony 2 philosophy. Hopefully, it will help you better understand the reasoning behind most of our decisions.
March 4, 2010 #Living on the edge

Symfony 2 Migration to Git

As you might have noticed, the Symfony 2 code is now hosted on Git.
January 13, 2010 #Living on the edge

About testing stuff...

Symfony has always advocated for writing automated tests and provided the tools necessary to do so in your project, but support for testing plugins has been limited... until now!
December 7, 2009 #Living on the edge

The symfony website is now powered by symfony 1.4

Today, I spent some time migrating some of my public websites to symfony 1.4. I wanted to validate both the stability of this new version, and also see how easy it was to upgrade to the first symfony version that does not have any support for deprecated stuff.
November 28, 2009 #Living on the edge

Lime 2 alpha released

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Lime 2 alpha 1! The second version of symfony's very own testing framework has been under heavy development since early July. Many exciting new features have been added since then, and now you have the opportunity to try them out! In this blog post, I want to outline the most important new features of Lime 2.
November 10, 2009 #Living on the edge

Using Propel 1.4 detailed logging

Today Propel 1.4.0 was released, containing richer debugging information as before. This post will show you how to use them.
November 8, 2009 #Living on the edge

Why will Symfony 2.0 finally use PHP 5.3?

The one where I explain why Symfony 2.0 will use PHP 5.3
October 27, 2009 #Living on the edge

Symfony and Doctrine 2

With the release of Doctrine 2 Alpha 1 last month, it was about time to start working on the next version of `sfDoctrinePlugin` which brings you support for Doctrine 2 in your projects.
October 5, 2009 #Living on the edge

About symfony 1.3 and symfony 1.4

The January 2010 end of maintenance for symfony 1.0 is fast approaching. Though we may feel a certain attachment to this first stable release of symfony, discontinuing its support is a natural step in the evolution of the project.
August 6, 2009 #Living on the edge