Jon Bauer’s Blog

Ok, I’m jealous.

Looks like everyone is having fun at symfony Camp.

Maybe next year?

Has anyone heard from Richard Stallman?

He is supposed to be in Peru, near the earthquake area.

I heard that people are trying to get in touch with him to confirm he is ok.

Let’s hope he is safe and well.

Waiting for an update…

UPDATE: Stallman is with the group in Trujillo and is OK.

I’ll be at ZendCon ‘07

see you there?

Fedora 7 was released today.

Release Notes are here.

With Lina, you can develop desktop apps on Linux, and run on Linux, OSX, and Windows.

Dell will begin selling Ubuntu Linux, pre-installed (and with limited support) today.

This is very very good, for several reasons.

Besides the obvious increased visibility for Linux to the consumer market, Dell will have a chance to learn how best to support an open source operating system, something big companies usually shy away from. It’s an inevitable evolution, and I’m glad someone is finally stepping up to the plate.

It might not be fun at the start, as I’m sure they already have their hands full supporting Vista issues, but Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux Desktop distribution, and has a reputation for very good media and hardware support. Most people say it “just works” out of the box. This is a good choice by Dell to test the waters, and it’s great to see a company actually listen and respond to their consumer demand.

Next up. Let’s get Open Office and Firefox pre-installed on Windows machines.

http://www.dell.com/open

http://linux.dell.com/

Oh, and did I mention that Michael Dell actually runs Ubuntu on his personal laptop?

This is exactly why I quit any AT&T service I was using a year ago.

Please support the EFF and let the government know you won’t tolerate being spied on.

If you are shocked by all this, you might be interested in reading Code, by Lawrence Lessig. Written before 9/11, this book predicted this, and almost everything that has happened regarding the internet since it was published in 2000.

The internet is a network. It’s always a good idea to know who the network administrator is.

Updating your symfony dev environment while maintaining legacy support for an older project:

mkdir /www/symfony_archive
cd /www/symfony_archive

svn co http://svn.symfony-project.com/tags/RELEASE_0_6_3 RELEASE_0_6_3

change httpd.conf:
Alias /sf /www/symfony_archive/RELEASE_0_6_3/data/web/sf

make symlinks:
cd /www/sfprojects/legacyproject/lib
ln -s /www/symfony_archive/RELEASE_0_6_3/lib symfony
cd /www/sfprojects/legacyproject/data
ln -s /www/symfony_archive/RELEASE_0_6_3/data symfony

Add this to /myproject/config/config.php
$sf_symfony_lib_dir = SF_ROOT_DIR.'/lib/symfony';
$sf_symfony_data_dir = SF_ROOT_DIR.'/data/symfony';

symfony cc

//make sure project is working
//in debug mode, click “vars and config” -> Settings
//make sure paths under sf_class_autoload: are all using new symfony_archive paths ( ie. /www/symfony_archive/RELEASE_0_6_3/lib/util/sfFinder.class.php )

then as root:
pear upgrade symfony/symfony

Check to make sure you’re running the new version:
symfony -V

Both Full and Part time positions are starting to popup for Symfony developers.

Symfony graces the cover of the April issue of php|Arch !

Kudos to Dustin Whittle for the article.