• The evolution of a sponsored Tweet

    Mini-post with a tweet advertising test made 5 Nov. 2015 at 13:45. Budget: 9,20 € ( 10 dollars is the minimun budget ) At the end of the day what it delivered is this: Impressionen 11.873 696 organisch / 11.177 gesponsert Interaktionen insgesamt 79 organisch </div> 567 gesponsert </div> </div>” data-metric-segment=”all” data-metric-type=”Engagements”>646 Medieninteraktionen 416 Detailerweiterungen…

  • #Remarketing hack explained. How to use the social banners on your own benefit

    I’m sure this happened to you too. After searching for something on the internet, banners showing exactly this product are following you on any other website you visit. And specially on Facebook! Because you surf the web with Facebook open don’t you ?  Then you must be aware that on 90% of any website there…

  • Electronic Music

    Lately I’m hearing a lot of electronic music and going out to a place that I like so much: Goldengate So here comes a list with some of my favourites. Leon Licht, Berliner wunderkind, born in 1988 Dabal Sommer, delivering electronic sweetness from the cold mountains of Genève, Switzerland

  • Good architecture and why not to render Controllers inside Views

    In Symfony, Zend and other frameworks you can rend a controller inside a view like this: {{ render(controller(‘AcmeArticleBundle:Article:recentArticles’, { ‘max’: 3 })) }}  Creating and Using templates documentation here. Just because there is a possibility to render(ControllerMethod,{ params}) in a template doesn’t mean you have to use it. Doing so leads almost always to a…

  • Symfony Bundles that come always handy for Admin Panels

    After a quite accidental start with the Framework I’m enjoying a lot developing stuff with their Form component. Using bootstrap and almost without any front-end javascript one can build great Admin-dashboard forms, using only a : {{ form_start(form) }} {{ form_end(form) }} Where you want the form to be rendered in the twig template. As…

  • Symfony heads up

    In the latest 6 months I’ve been quite busy learning Symfony, while I ended up partly in stackoverflow, at the beginning searching for answers to my questions and then when I learned how to solve them giving some answers myself. Now finally I’m at the point where I can code an admin web panel or…

  • Symfony2 Best Practices resume

    Today I come across this Best practices in Symfony PDF: http://symfony.com/doc/download-best-practices-book/ And I though about my own practices and where to apply some of this seen in the Best practices book. Here is a brief 3 points summary of things I would like to change in my next projects: Using Constant instead of variables in…

  • Symfony Form EventListeners

    Frequently when coding forms, there is a constraint or a field that becomes *required depending on the value of a select field. For this and many more user cases, symfony has the Form Event Listeners that are design specifically for that cases. So if you want to do get the Request in the form to…

  • Sonata-page Bundle CMS

    At this point I was going to make a full stop and try to make a step by step installation, that is easy to configure and also self-understandable. But I come to the point of so much trial and error, apart of learning all the command-line stuff and reading installation procedures, that there is no…

  • Crud in 5 minutes per Table using Sonata and Doctrine ORM

    Create, read, update and delete is something you need to manage in any Project. UPDATE: I took the decision of taking down the sonata example, since I consider now a much better way to do this with Symfony directly without using Sonata at all. To see an example of a custom admin in action please refer…