On the Symfony blog today there's a quick case study posted by Stefan Koopmanschap about a role that the Symfony framework is playing in a health education company.

Enovation was engaged by one of his long term clients in the Health education sector to aid and enable them in designing a solution for the management of curricular activities. The college had an immediate requirement to replace an existing expensive, commercial online database, with a bespoke system which could better manage their curriculum and student rotations within training hospitals. The project was quite large, and the clock was ticking; it was time to learn a new framework, and fast!

The post talks about what the needs of the project were fast development, the ability to perform the usual CRUD on multiple tables and an app that would be secure. The Admin Generator made most of these requests simple - as easy as running a few commands.

In the spirit of holiday fun, Cal Evans has founded a city somewhere in Jamacia via the MyMiniCity.com site - PHPCity:

I thought it may be fun to do a PHP community building instead of real work this close to the holidays, so I set up PHP City. To participate, just click the link to PHP City and you are a resident. If you really want to get involved, pick yourself a title (I'm Mayor McCal) and post a proclamation as a news bulletin.

There's not much to it - each visit to the site increases the population by one and there's other links to help with other areas of the city (like Industry and Transportation and others down the line). So visit our city and check out how much its grown (top 10 in the first day!) and add your hits to the growing population of PHPCity.

Other people mentioning the city: Padraic Brady, Nick Halstead, Felix Geisendorfer