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Fabien Potencier
Personal blog · fabien.potencier.orgprogrammingweb
Fabien Potencier's personal blog at fabien.potencier.org covers programming and web. Since 2009, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “SensioLabs raises 5 million euros”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fabien Potencier's blog for PHP and Symfony writing, especially his 'Create your own framework' series and articles on using PHP's good parts and on templating engines.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of Fabien Potencier about web technology and the symfony framework
Most-linked posts?
- SensioLabs raises 5 million euros3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-12-16
- PHP is much better than you think3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-15
- The Symfony Trademark3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-15
- Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 1)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-03
- The rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-05
- What is Symfony2?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-25
- Dependency Injection Container in PHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-26
- /article/34/templating-engines-in-php2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-21
- Symfony 4: Compose your Applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-03
What Hacker News says?
One of these may help you get in contact: http://fabien.potencier.org/about http://www.sensiolabs.co.uk/contact/contact.html
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on “How can we get Google Support?”Submitted PHP is much better than what you think as a story · 248 points
HN discussionI feel you, but it's just a matter of finding the right circles. I would never apply for a job just because it says 'php', you have to dig deeper. At this point in my career, I would never accept a freelance gig like the one you described, because I know how that goes. You don't need to try other languages, do it only if you want to. If you wanna save time just take my word, Symfony2 has nothing to envy to Django or…
Comment linking /article/50/create-your-own-framework-on-top-of-the-symfony2-components-part-1
on “URLs are for People, not Computers”Submitted What is Symfony2? as a story · 92 points
HN discussionThat's because both are Jinja reimplementations (given the name, I expect Swig is a JS version of Twig[0], itself a PHP implementation of Jinja, and originaly started by Armin Ronacher — Jinja's author[1][2]) [0] http://twig.sensiolabs.org [1] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/twig [2] http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in...
Comment linking /article/34/templating-engines-in-php
on “Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript by Mozilla”Submitted Why Symfony (over framework X)? as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSpeaking about where PHP is heading, I think it's pretty important to mention the funding Fabien Potencier managed to get for SensioLabs (company behind Symfony): http://fabien.potencier.org/article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-m... I haven't seen any mention of that on HN. Symfony components are used in Laravel and upcoming Drupal 8. The funding above means that SensioLabs will continue to work on solid platform(s) that…
Comment linking /article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-million-euros-to-boost-the-symfony-ecosystem
on “Introducing the new PHP on Heroku”Submitted SensioLabs raises 5 million euros as a story · 10 points
HN discussionTwig syntax takes from Django/Jinja [1], not Ruby. [1] http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in...
Comment linking /article/34/templating-engines-in-php
on “Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components”Submitted PHP is much better than you think as a story · 10 points
HN discussionPHP related: Sensio Labs (Symfony) announced a $7 million investment yesterday: https://sensiolabs.com/en/a_propos/communique_de_presse_fund... More here: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-m...
Comment linking /article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-million-euros-to-boost-the-symfony-ecosystem
on “The future of PHP, at a distance”Submitted Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 1) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou might be better off using a .ssh/config file, as in this tutorial: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/19/quick-ssh-tip It saves about as many keystrokes, also works in scp, and won't clutter up your shell dotfiles.
Comment linking /article/19/quick-ssh-tip
on “Introduction to Unix shell”Submitted Symfony 4: Compose your Applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a rather low effort post. PHP The Right Way [1] already covers the basics of modern PHP, without turning into a laundry list. Today the most important thing is Composer, not frameworks, especially to those who are just starting out. Learning a full framework is pointless if they just want to see the basics in action. Fabien Potencier's Create your own framework series [2] is really good for this: it shows ho…
Comment linking /article/53/create-your-own-framework-on-top-of-the-symfony2-components-part-4
on “So you want to be a PHP Developer?”Submitted The rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd recommend reading Fabien Potenciers (Symfony2 Framework) code, he writes very well designed software in PHP. Here's his blog http://fabien.potencier.org/ Off the top of my head he's the only one I'd definately recommend. Robert Lemke (Flow3 Framework), writes well structured enterprise code as well, Here's his blog: http://robertlemke.de/blog/posts
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on “Ask HN: Writing better PHP”Submitted The rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWordpress, Joomla and Drupal are not good examples of "good" PHP code. They work, and are used extensively, but experienced developers who care about code quality blow a gasket when they look at the source code. To do proper PHP development you should have a local VM. I created something to help in that regard[0]. It's been fairly well received. There's also websites like PHP The Right Way [1] that act like a collec…
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on “What are the best languages for aspiring programmers in 2014?”Submitted Symfony 4: Monolith vs. Micro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPHP offers a lot of choice. You can use it rather nicely, but it also allows you to write some really awful code. Admittedly, it does not do much to help you write good (=understandable, maintainable) code. This post is rather interesting in terms of using the good parts of PHP: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-th... I have been using the author's PHP framework for 2 years now and have exper…
Comment linking /article/64/php-is-much-better-than-you-think
on “Ask HN: What makes PHP so difficult?”Submitted Symfony 4: Compose your Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you found this interesting, you would probably also find Fabien's articles on writing your own framework on top of Symfony2 components interesting as well. http://fabien.potencier.org/article/50/create-your-own-frame...
Comment linking /article/50/create-your-own-framework-on-top-of-the-symfony2-components-part-1
on “Migrating legacy app to a Symfony Components based framework (Part I)”Submitted SensioLabs raises 5m to boost the Symfony PHP ecosystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf he ever visit this page, some not too outdated articles about PHP: http://www.phptherightway.com/ http://fabien.potencier.org/php-is-much-better-than-you-thin...
Comment linking /php-is-much-better-than-you-think.html
on “46 useful PHP code snippets”Submitted Stability over Features as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe topic link is a detour to this article: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/11/what-is-dependency-in...
Comment linking /article/11/what-is-dependency-injection
on “What is Dependency Injection?”Submitted What is Symfony2? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic vulnerability notifications from creators of Symfony PHP framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP is much better than you think as a story · 2 points
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