Hi Jochen, Gareth has answered all your questions, so I just wanted to say: welcome to the Symfony community!
As Gareth said, "A gentle introduction to Symfony" is a good start. And if you didn't use Doctrine or Propel before (I don't know which one you are using now with Symfony) try to start reading the documentation of the ORM you're using too. There's a lot of useful info there. If you have any questions, as long as I know the answer, I'll be happy to help. Cheers. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com>wrote: > Answers inline: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jochen Daum <jdau...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> my name is Jochen Daum, I just wanted to introduce myself before I start >> to deluge everyone with posts here. >> >> I run a small web development here in Auckland, New Zealand and only have >> minimal Symfony experience. I have however build and run my own in house >> development framework which does some of the CRUD behaviours Symfony >> provides. I've decided a while ago to ditch it in favor of Symfony and was >> lucky enough someone on my team has extensive Symfony experience. So I have >> done some maintenance on two projects and learned so far: adding fields to >> models and forms incl. migration tasks and changing form layouts and other >> bits and pieces. >> >> Is there an FAQ for this mailing list or any other specific rules I should >> be aware of? >> > > Not that I know of. Just obviously try to find something in documentation > first before sending a question this way as often questions are answered in > many places. > > >> Is there any resources apart from the symfony-project.org documentation >> that I can look at to get an overview of detail settings. So far I found >> them a good introduction, but there are immediate detail questions (for >> example how do --themes work). Also, searching on Google I find it hard to >> find 1.3/1.4 information, information about 1.0 seems to always come out on >> top. >> > > Try to use the "Gentle Introduction to symfony" available in the > documentation section to give a good overview of all of symfony. Even if you > just read through it it will still give you insight that sometimes tutorials > cant and a tutorial cannot give you the "how" and "why" for a lot of > features. Just a read through will allow you to answer your own questions > later with a "I remember reading about that in that Gentle Introduction > book, let me go check it out again". I know I do all the time. > >> >> Finally, it is appropriate to cross-post from/to >> forum.symfony-project.org (with time delay for unanswered issues?) or are >> the audiences the same? >> > > Speaking for myself I only ever visit the forums when it comes up as a > Google result. This mailing list is pretty much my only go to for answers > when my own research has turned up nothing. > > > Lastly, hope you have fun with the framework. We recently got someone to > switch over to symfony and he's starting to make comments like "How did I > ever make apps without this?" > > >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Jochen Daum >> >> Chief Automation Officer >> Automatem Ltd >> >> Phone: 09 630 3425 >> Mobile: 021 567 853 >> Email: j...@automatem.co.nz >> Skype: jochendaum >> Website: www.automatem.co.nz >> http://twitter.com/automatem >> http://nz.linkedin.com/in/automatem >> http://www.xing.com/go/invite/3425509.181107 >> http://www.aucklandbusinessnetworking.co.nz >> >> -- >> If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to >> security at symfony-project.com >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "symfony users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Gareth McCumskey > http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > twitter: @garethmcc > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
