Few things I’ve learn from Symfony migrationsOne year ago, I’ve decided to rebuild an old php procedural app into a fast Symfony 2 app. I quickly understood that converting database old relations will be a nightmare…
Gestion des migrations BDD avec doctrine/migrationsTous les développeurs issus de l’écosystème Symfony connaissent depuis très longtemps l’outil de migration de Doctrine. Pour les autres…
Your purpose in a Starbucks CupYou are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense…
Quotable quote: Mark Driscoll on Arminianism and CalvinismI’ve been in discussion with some Calvinists these days. What I hate with this kind of discussion is sometimes if not most of the times, it will get ugly. Some will become proud of what they believe in — thinking that they know…
Doctrine fixtures with some magicSometimes you have to create data fixtures using DoctrineFixturesBundle. Sometimes it can happen that you have to set rigid ID equals to 0. It’s tricky to do because set ID 0 in MySQL is not so easy.
Hell, no!This month is Halloween month. So at Grace Place, we thought of having a series for that. It’s called, “So you’re dead… now what”. It talks about anything about the after life. It’s a very uncomfortable topic, but heck we know we’re all going to die. It’s better to know what’s next than not at all!
Overriding the Doctrine Auto-increment ID GeneratorA few days ago we came across a bit of a roadblock in one of our designs: We had a table in the MySQL database that was historically used to migrate data into from various sources, and we governed how the id’s look like according to a…
Shortly before I left active service in 2013. I was asked if I had any publications from “the old days”. Why yes, yes I did. So I busted out the told FMs and started making training slides and training exercises like the old days…
