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A new version of the symfony project website with a brand new "Plugins" section was released today to replace the Trac plugin management system.

It appears as though Propeller.com has fallen victim of a bad practice most early web designers have experienced early in their careers.

Here is a step-by-step guide that should save you a few hours.

This article is for those that are new to Ruby on Rails, or those that have not spent the time learning the various debugging techniques.

One of our programmers had the following comment in a recent Subversion commit: “Verified to display correctly with IE6, IE7, FF Ubuntu, FF, Galeon, Konqueror”. Sigh… don’t you hate when you have to do that?

After publishing an article about removing backgrounds quickly in Photoshop, many have asked me how to do the same thing with the Gimp. While there is no equivalent to the Extract filter in the Gimp, you can still remove backgrounds fairly quickly. Here, I will show you how to do it with the Create and edit paths tool.

Web graphics designers running GNU/Linux seem to use the Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop in a virtual environment. I have found the feature rich Xara Xtreme to be a good alternative for web graphics creation and editing. It is open source and you can download it here. Following is a short tutorial on how to create web 2.0 buttons using Xara Xtreme.

I developed this "cliff notes" style document while working on my first Symfony project ThemBid.com. It will be useful for you to get started quickly with Symfony and serve as a cheat sheet while you are hacking.

This solution is based on the Sliding Door technique with dynamic width and a rollover effect. The menu is defined using a plain HTML list and using CSS you get a gracefully degradable tabbed menu. PHP is used to automate most of the process so that maintenance is very easy. Easily adaptable to other frameworks.

This quick guide will make it easy for you to create many-to-many relationships between tables.

While developing ThemBid.com using Symfony, our developers used XAMPP to standardize development environments and have something easy to install.

This solution allows you to access your local development sites from within a guest VMware installation (for IE testing) and also securely remotely.

When I was using Windows XP I would use UltraVNC to access my desktop remotely, then when I “upgraded” to Vista I did not take to the time to do that, instead I used the built in Remote Desktop feature. Now that I have truly upgraded to Ubuntu, I want to be able to access my machine remotely. This blog post describes two methods.

Now that the Vista to Ubuntu switch is complete and I have had some time to use Ubuntu in a productive environment... I can say that I love Ubunutu (I have had experience with Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, QNX and Debian in the past)! Even running Windows XP under VMware is great. I was doing some Photoshop editing under VMware on some large files and it seemed faster than when I was running Photoshop natively on Vista.