About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
Released a new version of sfPropelRowLevelAccessBehaviorPlugin
After discovering a somewhat annoying bug had I removed the previous release of my plugin; I could not allow people to download and install a version of which I knew such a bug existed.
Thus after some recoding and bug fixing I am proud to present version 1.1 of sfPropelRowLevelAccessBehaviorPlugin!
You can find it in the symfony [...]
Symfony plugin released!
A few days ago I blogged about the lack of Row Level Access control in symfony. Although I still have too little time I was seduced to try and tackle this problem.
The result is clear! A new plugin was born and it is available for all to enjoy at http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPropelRowLevelAccessBehaviorPlugin.
It is very easy to use, [...]
Row level ACL on symfony
Even though sfGuardPlugin is a great ACL plug-in; it unfortunately cannot handle Row Level Access. In most of my personal projects I require such a level of control and the solutions chosen always feel a bit ..hackish..
Using Symfony’s Lime in phpUnderControl
Do you know phpUnderControl?
Do you know and use Lime?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the questions above then you will likely have tried to integrate Lime into phpUnderControl. So have I..
What I discovered was that there are 3 ways in which this problem can be solved.
Use Lime’s xUnit output mechanism, only available in Symfony [...]
Changed theming to use Crossbrand
I have not blogged in a while due to personal circumstances, like having started on a new job which keeps intensifying, but also because I was unsatisfied with the way my sites handle templating.
Let me explain, I have a shared webhosting account and run multiple domains and subdomains. Some (actually most) of them require the [...]
PHPWomen Article contest has closed
The PHPWomen contest has closed. As I had said earlier I have also participated in the contest. I restrained from posting the articles on my blog because it feels unfair to the community at PHPWomen.
In hindsight it would have been convenient if I posted a new blog item whenever I posted a new article. But [...]
phpWomen contest close to an end
Tomorrow will be the last day to participate in the phpWomen contest at www.phpwomen.org.
For those of you who do not know, phpWomen is a great initiative to bind the girls of the trade together in a sort of community or usergroup.
It has received quite a bit of attention lately and in my opinion rightly so!
I [...]
Errorhandling in PHP, now with Fatal Errors included
Every once in a while you stumble upon a topic that you thought would have been completely covered. This I thought as well about PHP Errorhandling. Although resources are abundant about the topic, most of them cover Error handling without handling the Fatal Errors or with hacks for a solution.
This last problem can easily be [...]
Dutch PHP Business Seminar == excellent
I like to learn, it might seem odd for some people but I just like it. There is never enough time to learn everything but attending a Seminar is surely one way to increase your learning efficiency.
And so I did attend the Dutch PHP Business Seminar for the first time. It was offered by iBuildings [...]