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Quo Vadis, KNP Bundles.com ?

Sep 20, 2012 − Learn more about the future of KNP Bundles, one of the de facto standards to look for the right Symfony2 bundle... With more than 30,000 visits a month, KNP Bundles is one of the de facto standards to look for the right Symfony2 bundle... and its open-source code a good place to l...

Published on Sep 19, 2012

Farewell Zend Framework clones

Jun 29, 2012 − If you've been using our subtree snapshots of the ZF2 framework, there's a good news for you! Update your submodules, your deps or your composer file! If you've been using our subtree snapshots of the ZF2 framework, there's a good news for you! Zend decided to create self hosted ZF2...

Published on Jun 28, 2012

Doctrine ORM behaviors, or how to use traits efficiently

Mar 30, 2012 − Since php5.4 is here and pretty stable, we decided to experiment on "traits" and their usage in the real world. Let's see how we can use them with Doctrine2 entities. Since php5.4 is here and pretty stable, we decided to experiment on "traits" and their usage in the real world. Let's...

Published on Mar 29, 2012

Responding to KnpRadBundle feedback

Mar 2, 2012 − So, it has been two weeks since we released our biggest experiment with Symfony2 to date - KnpRadBundle. We've been listening to your awesome feedback and we think that it's about time to respond ;-) So, it has been two weeks since we released our biggest experiment with Symfony2 to d...

Published on Mar 1, 2012

Gedmo doctrine extensions in symfony2

Feb 7, 2012 − Configure full featured Doctrine2 extensions for your symfony2 project. This post will show you - how to create a simple configuration file to manage extensions with ability to use all features it provides. Interested? then bear with me! and don't be afraid, we're not diving into secur...

Published on Feb 6, 2012

KNP Bundles is now using RabbitMQ

Feb 3, 2012 − There are already over a thousand Symfony2 bundles registered on KnpBundles.com, which is awesome if you ask me. Have you ever wondered how the update process works? The first thing we do every night on KnpBundles.com is look for new Symfony2 bundles on twitter, github, google… and...

Published on Feb 2, 2012

KNP Bundles got a bit more love

Jan 24, 2012 − You may have noticed already, but KNP Bundles received an update yesterday. So yeah, we've been working quietly on KNP Bundles these times, but quietly does not mean lazily! Here's a summary of the changes since the last update (non-exhaustive list): * You don't have to read t...

Published on Jan 23, 2012

Behat plugin for vim

Jan 19, 2012 − Given you are a vim user who loves behat When you write your behat scenarios Then you should use the behat plugin for vim! If you already enjoy writing behat steps with vim, you are certainly using the cucumber runtime files developed by Tim Pope. Those are great, as they provide y...

Published on Jan 18, 2012

KNP Bundles is growing fast!

Dec 13, 2011 − We are proud of maintaining KNP Bundles, the famous unofficial web resource for Symfony2 bundles, and we're commited to making it really useful and usable. That's why some of our KNP ninjas spent their last "geek time" fridays working on it… We would like to introduce the latest chang...

Published on Dec 12, 2011

KNP paginator reborn

Nov 25, 2011 − A different, simple, extensible pagination tool for Symfony2 and other projects. Magic? no! only KISS principle Why reinventing the wheel? Can someone tell me, what is the definition of wheel in software world? Introduction Knp Paginator first was introduced as a Bundle for Sf2 proje...

Published on Nov 24, 2011

Symfony2bundles becomes KNP Bundles

Nov 10, 2011 − If you're using Symfony2, chances are you already know Symfony2bundles. We've launched this service back in June 2010 to list all Symfony2 bundles - yes, hence the name. Today we're changing its name to be sure to comply with the Symfony trademark policy. Hey guys, The symfony2bun...

Published on Nov 9, 2011

Opensourcing the KNP Labs marketplace − a Silex application

Oct 26, 2011 − As you might know already, developers at KNP Labs are given some time every week where they can work on pet projects. Unfortunately, it seems that the creative minds here have a lot more ideas than we can handle, so we started writing a small application to keep an eye on those nice i...

Published on Oct 25, 2011