Archive: October 2009

SolutionSet hosted its first symfony workshop last week on October 14-16th at our San Francisco office at 85 Second Street. Eight developers participated in the 3-day (9 to 5) training exercise targeted at beginner symfony users. People flew in from as far away as Michigan and Denmark! The following topics were covered:

1. Introduction to Symfony
2. From Flat File Application to MVC
3. Actions and Templates
4. Configuration and Model
5. Model and Doctrine
6. Conclusion and Environments
7. Installation
8. More with Doctrine
9. Routing and Forms
10. Admin Generator
11. Session and Credentials
12. Unit and Functional Testing

The material was well-matched to the experience level of the majority of attendees. In the future, we hope to develop an “advanced” curriculum that would benefit experienced symfony users. The next SolutionSet training will likely be held in San Francisco in early 2010. More details about future workshops will be posted at http://www.solutionset.com/symfony when they are finalized.

While we don’t often toot our own horn, here’s some news we think is worth sharing: we announced yesterday that we’ve combined our four business groups into one entity named SolutionSet. By combining our Direct, Retail, Digital and Data groups into one company, we’re executing on a strategic plan put into motion in 2005 to build an agency that delivers accountable marketing through cross-media solutions that trigger transactions and foster customer relationships over time for our clients. Read the entire press release here.

You’ll see this company direction and mission in our new website and of course on our blog.Tune in often for news, insights, tips and points-of-view on winning in the marketplace by causing more transactions!