I am working on linux since 2008. I am extensive user of linux even my development environment is on linux. In linux i like debian based distributions. Ubuntu for is desktop friendlyness and Debian(lenny) for it’s stability. Right now, i am using debian lenny. There was 0 crash on my AMD64. So today i decide to give try to freeBSD.

Finally we move to linux. Not only server but clients also. And believe me it is just an amazing experience. Everyone in our company is just happy with this change. Well it took too long to decide this. Because as a developer point of view, We know windows has calibre to be king on clients. This is obvious, particularly here in India. In our education system, we never see any institute to take linux seriously. Moreover who ever see computer first time in India, That have windows. So such a big windows share is obvious.

Today Ubuntu 9.04 has been released and i am also going to give it a try. Just removed my OpenSUSE 11.1 and installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 9.04. This time it seems to me more sound with my hardware configurations. Earlier version of ubuntu were crashing on my hardware especially Firefox. Yet i couldn’t find frequent crashes of FireFox and thus ubuntu.

These days i'm contributing in Rubylearning.org as a mentor. And there we got a chance to have Steve Pugh. He has launched his book "Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts". and i won one copy there.

I switched to ubuntu 8.10 64-bit desktop edition with high expectations. But it couldn’t make me so relaxed. No doubt, It is very good linux distribution, i have ever seen. But Because of frequent crashes of operating system and firefox. I decided to leave ubuntu.

I setup my ubuntu box with svn server and symfony. Here i want to share simple steps to configure symfony and svn server. I will cover the svn access from file system. I am considering you had installed SVN server. If not than follow these instructions. Now let’s install symfony. I will follow the pear installation.

Elgg is an opensource PHP application which is great for Social Networking portals. Since it is social netowoking that's why elgg has introduced EAV database model to allow new features without change in any database structure.

I would like to congratulate symfony team for their next release. I am quite happy with symfony new stable release. Symfony team has made so many important improvements.

Here is a small tutorial to make available your doctrine plugin for all of your projects residing on the shared server.

Yesterday i had completed with “askeet” web application on my local server successfully. It was really great experience to work with symfony. Well personally i have experience of ruby on rails, CakePHP, CodeIgniter and now symfony also. Exploring around symfony, I came to know about one more database layer “Doctrine”.