As every year, the JsDay and PhpDay conferences were taking place mid-May in the beautiful italian city of Verona. According to tradition, a bunch of Liipers visited both two day conferences. This year we were a crowd of twelve people, eager to learn the latest techniques for producing great web applications.
Last Saturday I attended SwissJeese, the first Swiss tech conference dedicated exclusively to JavaScript. It was co-organised by @bdufresne and @shvi from JSGeneve and JSZürich respectively. Thanks to the sponsors, it was complitely free (as in beer) to attend and there were even food and drinks included.
Recently, we had a hackday at Liip, where we dived into game development with JavaScript. Our goal was to see how hard it is to produce a simple cross platform game using just JavaScript and HTML5 elements. Since we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, we decided to use a JavaScript game framework.
I guess in the Symfony2 world, we all know the following problem: We have a running Symfony2 installation we already accessed in the browser. Now we want to use the Symfony2 console to run a command and *BANG* we get an exception. The problem is, that the cache directory is not writable by the command line user. Now the usual reaction is "let's just set the access rights to 777", which solves the problem for the moment. But of course it will return, once the command line user wants to access another file/directory that was created by the webserver.