Comments for Robert Speer Web Development

Comment on No degree? No Problem (some hard knocks may apply) by john personna

john personna — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:47:30 +0000

Your advice sounds a lot like mine. Funny that we might have been typing at the same time!

Comment on No degree? No Problem (some hard knocks may apply) by Robert

Robert — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:34:47 +0000

I’d also like to add that front-end development is easy to pick up because all the source code is exposed. Using a good developer toolkit (like the one that comes with Chrome) can help you figure out exactly how everything on a site is done. The same can not be said for server-side development.

Comment on Internationalized (i18n) Admin Generator CRUD’s in Symfony 1.2.9 + Doctrine by Roman

Roman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:59:53 +0000

Hi!

Have you found the way of uploading I18n files?

Regards!

Comment on Apostrophe: An outstanding Symfony CMS with no backend by Tom Boutell

Tom Boutell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:53:07 +0000

Adam, we accept patches to improve translation coverage. Please attach your patch to a ticket on trac.apostrophenow.org. Thanks!

Comment on Apostrophe: An outstanding Symfony CMS with no backend by Adam Te

Adam Te — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:52:08 +0000

Language support is in fact awful due to its underdevelopment. I had to spend much time to translate every part of it. In many templates phrases that should be translated are not surrounded by translation function. Besides, Apostrophe is a great piece of software!

Comment on Symfony refactor of the Zend Quick Start Tutorial by Jakub

Jakub — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:15:33 +0000

Excelent. Thanks Rob.

Comment on Interactive Infrastructure for under $25 a month by John

John — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:15 +0000

Nice post - a lot of solid tools in here. For my job, I do a lot of wireframing / flowcharting. My tool of choice is LucidChart because I only have to have one app to do everything I need to do. And the real-time collaboration is just like Google Docs.

Comment on Interactive Infrastructure for under $25 a month by Chris Barber

Chris Barber — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:56:12 +0000

Great write up! There’s a lot of great tools you mentioned that I hadn’t heard of.

I use Subversion for all client projects and GitHub for personal/public projects. All of my sites and email are currently hosted on Slicehost (owned by Rackspace), but am contemplating switching to Linode.

I LOVE Quickbooks. It’s the heart of my company. I run all my invoicing, bills, etc through it. At tax time, all I need to do is send my accountant a copy of my Quickbooks file.

The only thing that I highly recommend is some sort of backup system. I personally use Apple’s Time Machine as well as disc image my entire hard drive 3 times a day to two separate hard drives using Super Duper. There’s a similar tool that is free called Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/). Data loss is unacceptable and costs time, money, and possibly a client project.

Cheers!

Comment on Apostrophe: An outstanding Symfony CMS with no backend by Geoff DiMasi

Geoff DiMasi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:29:07 +0000

Aaron, your description of “handy in a more light-weight web app” is a common misconception. As the designers and developers of Apostrophe, we use it on all of our client work and that includes some large and complex sites.

By the way, we recently released Apostrophe 1.5 so it is worth checking that out:
http://window.punkave.com/2011/01/18/apostrophe-1-5-released/

Comment on Apostrophe: An outstanding Symfony CMS with no backend by kris

kris — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:19:19 +0000

robert, would you mind sharing your layout.php for the demo site? im having some difficulties leaving out the subnav for pages that dont have subpages …