Me, Myself And I

Associative arrays using YAML for services configuration in Symfony2

Palleas — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:10:40 +0000

Yesterday, I was toying with Symfony2 and its dependency injection container when I ran into a really stupid problem : I was unable to pass an array as an argument of a service class’ constructor. Yes, it is as stupid as it sound. Despite the fact that I previously used XML to describe my services, I decided to use YAML for that specific Bundle. Bad idea.

After a couple of minutes, struggling with a stupid piece of YAML, I finally found a solution that made YML looks ugly to me :

As far as I’m concerned, I think I’ll agree with @caefer and go back to XML for services configuration. I used to think that being able to choose between YAML, PHP and XML for configuration was convenient only because some people may prefer XML over YML, but not anymore : being able to choose between PHP, XML and YML makes you able to use the syntax that fits (XML for services, YML for basic configuration and routing…).

SummerCSS : refresh your CSS !

Palleas — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:44:41 +0000

(Ok, this is probably one of the crappiest extension name, ever).

I’m working on a project at work which needs me to do some design modifications. I used not to be a big fan of CSS but since I started to play with compass, I must admit it started to be fun. In line with « Hey my job is cool, I’m using kick-ass tools » I needed a Firefox extension which would refresh the loaded CSS in my page. This way, I would be able to see the changes I made without having to wait (too long). I found a couple of extensions and a bookmarklet (thanks to naholyr) with the most clever idea ever : adding a « random » token to the link tag and let the browser refresh its target. With that In mind I thought it would be nice to finally give a try to jetpack…

… and kids, that’s the story of how I developed my very first Firefox add-on.

How I turned a folder into a git submodule

Palleas — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:42:38 +0000

Today I wanted to share a specific folder on github, and only a folder. The whole application was already versioned by git and there was no point in sharing it, that’s why I wanted to turn it into a submodule. I asked on twitter what was the best way to do so, as I was going to « mv » my folder somewhere else and turn it in a new git repository. Problem is, I didn’t want to loose my history. That’s when (thanks to @Korbik) I discovered the filter-branch command which is one of the numerous ways to rewrite a git history.

Palleas% git clone ~/Sites/lifestream/.git ls_tmp
Cloning into ls_tmp...
done.
Palleas% cd ls_tmp
Palleas% git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter \
    src/Application/LifestreamBundle HEAD
Rewrite c27b09db989960909e720d66034073315b3bb968 (16/16)
Ref 'refs/heads/dev' was rewritten
Palleas% git remote add origin [new url]
Palleas% git push origin master

This command permits to change the root directory of a repository. By changing it to the directory I wanted to extract, I was basically saying « please remove every single commit which is not related to my folder ». That done, all I had to do was to push it to another remote and add it back to my application but as a submodule this time.