SensioLabs, creator of Symfony and Silex PHP frameworks, gets $7 million capital

The company behind the two popular PHP frameworks Symfony and Silex just raised 7 million dollars to “expand their open-source activities”. This is really awesome and will definitly have a heavy (positive) impact on the development of both framework (and further stuff). And just for comparison: Most other frameworks are made and maintained by some people for free in their free-time!

According to SensioLabs’s founder Fabien Potencier the company will hire up to 60 new developers who will work on new CRM and CMS tools, beside that an own cloud-hosting service is in the making. Apply for a private beta account at insight.sensiolabs.com.

We should keep an eye on Symfony, Silex and the Insight hosting service, looks like big things are coming.

Source: Official statement of SensioLabs

SensioLabs, creator of Symfony and Silex PHP frameworks, gets $7 million capital

[Link] Retinafy your Site / Device by Nijiko Yonskai

“Fuck you. Pay Me.” How to deal with clients, the professional way. An excellent talk with Mike Monteiro.

Frontend Ops Conf 2014 – Sarah Goff-Dupont: Git, Continuous Integration and Making It Pretty (31min video)

[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

Experimenting with HHVM at Etsy (Link)

Angelina Fabbro talks about “CSS4” in this excellent conference video

Hacking ATMs – A conference talk about the current security state of Windows XP driven cash machines

Interesting: code of the same application in PHP, Python, Ruby, Closure, node.js, Java and Go

Adobe releases Firebug-like developer tools to edit and extract PSDs

Interesting stats on SONY’s hacked passwords

PHP.net hacked, but most things are fine again

[Link] How to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) with PDO, MySQLi and MySQL the right way (prepared statements)

MINI, an extremely simple barebone PHP application

[Link] Making a website vertically responsive

Awesome list of Design Patterns with PHP code examples

Generate Vagrant boxes with Laravel, HipHop, Nginx, WordPress, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, RabbitMQ etc. with one click

Push database changes to all clients in real-time (!) with AngularJS and Firebase

Berlin, prepare for TOA conference (15th – 17th of July)

[video] Netflix JavaScript Talks about ECMAScript 7: The Evolution of JavaScript

Test GZIP compression of your server easily

How to setup a local server (in a virtual machine) with Vagrant in PHPStorm

How to center a div vertically and horizontally (modern methods, without fixed size!)

October CMS, built on top of Laravel, is beautiful, clever and on the way to be the new #1 CMS

How to debug code on a remote server (or in vagrant box) with PHPStorm

An introduction into Atomic Design, a super-clean way to style web applications