I have 3 e-copies of Extending Symfony 2 Web Application Framework for you to win. The rules are simple. You need to either reply here in the comments or tweet telling me why you deserve to get a free copy. I’ll pick up the best answers and randomly select 3 of you to receive a copy of the book. If you tweet about it, be sure to tweet something on the format of “Hey, @khepin, I deserve http://goo.

Just because this blog was not updated with much Symfony content for quite a while doesn’t mean I stopped writing about it! In fact I’m happy to anounce the immediate availability of Extending Symfony 2 Web Application Framework (also available on Amazon). It is a hands on approach to discovering all the ways you can extend the framework in order to benefit from advanced capabilities, have cleaner better separated code and or share your extensions in a re-usable fashion.

Composer, the dependency manager for php is awesome. Incredibly awesome, and gaining more awesomeness by the day. There used to be many glitches, edge cases that made me grinch from time to time to time about it, but almost anything I’ve had to complain about is now working wonderful. However not everything regarding dependency management is in control of composer, and much is left to the creators of those dependencies.