Including Foreign Keys in Doctrine2 Array Results
How to include Doctrine foreign key columns in array results for efficient Symfony/PHP data exports without joining related tables or hydrating entities.
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Taken Audio MadLibs
How a Symfony2 app uses Google’s TTS API and server-side audio conversion to combine user-written MadLibs dialogue with Taken movie clips.
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How Scala parser combinators can parse a turtle-graphics command language, illustrating their use for building simple domain-specific languages.
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A team uses a Bank OCR coding kata to explore decomposing engineering problems, choosing data structures, writing pseudocode, and comparing implementation styles.
Read the postFriday Links: RDMS, Bitcoin, and Facebook
A roundup comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL, explaining Facebook-based startup market research, and examining Bitcoin’s prospects for 2015.
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