Symfony "Database "" does not exist." error

Fix for symfony’s annoying “Database “” does not exist.” error.

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symfony Unable to parse default value as date/time value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

Fix for symfony error “Unable to parse default value as date/time value: ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00′”

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jQuery loading remote/external javascript files using getScript()

I found out that jQuery has a nice little method for loading external scripts into the page at run time called getScript(). It basically gets the contents of the external file using an AJAX request and then eval()s the code at runtime, which seems like a perfect way of doing it. I reckon it’s much better than appending new <script> tags to the <head> tag as well.

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SproutCore: a proper javascript framework

I wrote a while ago about creating a client side MVC system in javascript.
Yesterday at one of the talks SproutCore was mentioned. I had a look today and it looks very promising. It’s a full framework designed to create full ‘thick client’ javascript applications. The core of it was written in Ruby and I haven’t [...]

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Google Developer Day 2008

I had the fortune yesterday to attend the Google Developer Day 2008 in Wembley Stadium with a colleague from work.
We were told there were around 800 people there but with everyone sat down at the morning keynote meeting it didn’t seem like so many. Also, pretty much everyone there had an iPhone! Everywhere you looked [...]

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