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3 Powerful Offshoring Tips

I had the great fortune of spending some time with Paul Maximov, owner of Cyberian Soft at Orange County’s Largest Mixer. He shared some essential tips on managing his nine person programming team in the Ukraine. [Read more...]

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Setting Up Symfony on Ubuntu 7.10 64bit

So you have your shiny new *buntu installed and now you want to start hacking with your favorite framework, Symfony. This quick guide will have you up and running in a few minutes. I assume you have installed Apache 2, PHP5 and MySQL 5 using the defaults with Synaptic. [Read more...]

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Hide Elements on the Front Page of a Joomla Site

This snippet is used to hide specific elements on the front page only, that are not hide-able using the home menu parameters (menu->main menu->home). For example, you may want to hide the breadcrumbs only on the front page.

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Converting Tabs to Spaces in PHPeclipse

In order to maintain harmony among several developers it is important to follow some core standards. With Symfony, it is standard practice to use a two space convention. Here is how to make PHPEclipse honor this policy while still allowing you to use the tab button.

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Quickstart: Debugging Ruby on Rails Applications

This post is for those that are new to Ruby on Rails, or those that have not spent the time learning the various debugging techniques. The objective is to get you quickly up to speed on how to debug your Ruby on Rails application.
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Get Symfony Installed in 20 Minutes on Vista

Interest in Symfony has increased since del.icio.us announced it developed its new version on the Symfony framework. If you are running Vista and you need to get a quick Symfony development environment going, then look no further. Follow these easy steps to going in 20 minutes. [Read more...]

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CSS Equivalent of Prototype?

One of our programmers had the following comment in a recent Subversion commit: “Verified to display correctly with IE6, IE7, FF Ubuntu, FF, Galeon, Konqueror”. Sigh… don’t you hate when you have to do that? Frameworks like Prototype and Symfony has made development life much easier, but sadly CSS cross browser hell still brings the pain. So I ask, can some brave master-hacker create a Prototype/Symfony like framework for us poor CSS/HTML programmers?

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