Me: “Yes, that is a tool called Github, with an octopus-cat hybrid as a logo. It’s one of the best tools which has been created, I use it every day"

Brother: “I am scared”

#symfony2 Security component is a beast. Once I’ve got it sorted, there’s a BIG tutorial on it’s way. The symfony components have taught me a huge amount, so improving their documentation the least I can do.

Making a set of #symfony2 components allowing for indieauth and CardDAV to be used for #indieweb auth #php

Woot! The various modules of my #indieweb site all now have upwards of 90% test coverage #web #dev #php

Got a lot of work done on my #indieweb publishing software today. This is in preparation to using it on a friend’s site, then releasing all the components into the public. Exciting stuff!

#TIL doctrine ORM is pretty damn awesome #web #dev #php

Turns out seeing how many lines of HTML were saved by running The Guardian’s source through Coda’s HTML Tidy was a mistake. Coda now frozen. >3.3k lines!

Does anyone I know do web stuff for newspapers? I’d be really interested in knowing why there’s so much weird code formatting and vertical space in the source.

Working through http://emberjs.com/guides/router_primer/ to understand ember.js. I’m beginning to get semantic satiation on the word “shoe” :{

http://docs.emmet.io/ looks nice #web #dev #bookmark

To anyone else starting out with ember.js, http://emberjs.com/guides/router_primer/ is the best incremental explanation of the application structure I’ve found.

Slowly getting my head round ember.js. Javascript really isn’t very nice.

try/catch are the most undervalued control flow statements. I think it’s the negative connotation of exception.