I have grown very fond of Symfony 1.4. It’s pretty much Symfony 1.2 with all the quicks ironed out. It showed me how much polish is important in a software project. It’s almost all I have been doing in my own little project after the main features were implemented, symfttpd: making it less annoying to [...]
Sometimes, the code looks good, but it doesn’t mean that the whole project in itself is good. First, a project should be simple to install. The install documentation should exist and always be up to date. I encounter too many projects where “inside knowledge” is required to install the application, and you don’t know if [...]
Well, chmod 666 is the true evil obviously, but people who use the chmod 777 trick really don’t want to bother with the different signification of x for files and folders, so they mark all files as executables. This makes ls in my terminal quite ugly, and is what motivated me to write yet another [...]
