On NetTuts.com today there's a new tutorial posted about using a microframework for prototyping an application you may not need a full stack framework to get running. Their examples are based on the Slim framework.

Let's face it: we all have great ideas for a web application. Whether you write them down on paper or remember them using your eidetic memory, there comes a point when you want test whether or not your idea is really viable. In this tutorial, we'll use a micro framework, a templating language and an ORM to rapidly develop an application prototype.

There's an introduction to help you get Slim, some extras, Twig templating and Paris and Idorm set up and working happily together. There's code included for bootstrapping the application, creating a few routes, building models and using them to pull data from the database. They also create an "admin" area for their sample blog application, building an "add article" form and protecting it with a simple login system. You can download the source if you'd like to see it all working together.

If you weren't able to make it to the Symfony Live Paris event, you're in luck - they've just posted the videos from the sessions presented in the main room of the conference (including keynotes).

The 2011 edition of the Symfony Live conference in Paris was a blast. With 540 attendees, this was the biggest Symfony conference ever. [...] This year, we also had a video team in the main room which recorded all the sessions. So, thanks to Brainsonic, I'm really happy to announce to all the people who missed the conference that all sessions from the main room are now available online.

Included in the list of videos are sessions like:

• Josh Holmes' The Lost Art of Simplicity
• Tom Boutell's Apostrophe: a Symfony-powered CMS your clients will love
• Fabien Potencier's HTTP Cache
• Stefan Koopmanschap's Don't Use a Screw when You Need a Nail

On the Liip blog today there's a write up from David Buchmann about the just-passed Symfony Live conference that happened in Paris. his recap covers some of the high points of the event including sessions from the Liip-ers in the crowd.

Last week, there was the Symfony Live conference in Paris. The conference was surprisingly big, about 500 developers came together in the impressing building of Cité Universitaire Internationale. The main topic was of course the upcoming Symfony2 release. We had two days of talks and a hackday on Saturday, and lots of fun every night. The topics are on the conference website, some discussion and slides are on joind.in.

He mentions some of the "state of Symfony2" updates that were mentioned and some of the talks that were given by the Liip employees including ones on the Symfony2 CMF project, RabbitMQ and Symfony2, security and Javascript.

On the Symfony blog today Stefan Koopmanschap has announced the Symfony Live Unconference that will be happening at the same time as the second day of the Symfony Live Paris event.

It is with great pleasure that I present to you the Symfony Live Unconference. The Unconference will take place parallel to the second day of Symfony Live 2011 in Paris, and is sponsored by Interlutions and my own company Ingewikkeld.

The event opens the floor to anyone wanting to come and present on their topic - something Symfony or PHP development related, obviously. You can find out more about this new addition to the Symfony Live Paris event on its page and start getting those slides ready!

On the Symfony blog today there's some new updates about their upcoming SymfonyLive events posted - both for the San Francisco and Paris conferences.

I've already posted about the Symfony Live Conferences schedule a few weeks ago, but since then, we have added quite a few sessions from top-notch speakers.

San Francisco will be getting a talk from Dustin Whittle (a Symfony core team member) as well as Kris Wallsmith speaking about Assetic (an asset management library for PHP 5.3). Those attending the Paris conference will be happy to know that Weka Entertainment, the developers of a major Facebook game, will be on hand to talk about how they migrated everything to Symfony in less than three months.

You can find out more about these conferences on the Symfony Live website.

On the Symfony blog today there's a new post of schedules for the upcoming Symfony Live events happening in San Francisco and Paris.

First of all, I wish you a very happy new year! I wish you the best and I hope 2011 will be a big year for symfony and Symfony2. 2011 is getting off to a great start with the Symfony Live conferences. As you might have noticed, we have unveiled the schedule for the Symfony Live conference in Paris and San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.

Speakers and topics featured in San Francisco include Tom Boutell on Apostrophe, a real world session on Symfony2 and Scott Chacon's talk on git. In Paris you can see Josh Holmes talk about simplicity, Thomas Rabaix on Solr and more about the "big plans" Lukas Smith and others are making about Symfony2 and CMSs.

On the Symfony blog today there's a new post with conference information about two upcoming Symfony Live events happening in Paris and San Francisco in 2011.

So, for the third year in a row, I and Sensio Labs are very proud to announce the Symfony Live conference for 2011 in Paris. And I am even more excited to announce that for the first time, we will also organize a Symfony Live conference in the US (in San Francisco). The San Francisco conference will take place on February 8-9th; and the Paris conference will take place on March 3-4th.

Each of the events will also include "Hacking Days" surrounding them where attendees (or non-attendees - they're free!) can come and work with others on their favorite Symfony projects and code. Besides the conferences, they're also organizing some "Training Day" events. Of course, to fill up all of these conferences, they need speakers so if you're wanting to talk about some of the great stuff you've been doing with Symfony, check out the conference website for more information on getting in on the Call for Papers.

Following up on their Symfony Live conference just held in Paris last week, the Symfony blog has gathered together content from all around the web talking about the event and sharing some of the opinions from those who attended.

A conference such as Symfony Live always generates a lot of buzz. Especially when there are interesting announcements or rumours are made. This post will give you an overview of the community response to Symfony Live from various blogs and social networks.

There's plenty of content here - blog posts (in multiple languages), pictures on Flickr, a video on Vimeo and plenty of Twitter posts based on the "#sflive2010" hastag. The overall impression was great and it seemed like just about everyone in attendance (well, of those that posted about it) seemed to enjoy the event.

You can also read some of the Symfony blog's own recaps of Day 1 and Day 2 for more specifics of what happened each day.

The symfony blog has announced an event happening this year on June 11th and 12th in Paris, France - the first symfony live conference.

I am very proud and excited to announce the very first symfony live conference, organized by Sensio Labs, with the help of the AFUP. The conference will be held in France, Paris, between June 11th and June 12th. Even if the conference is only for French speaking people, it is yet another important step for the building of the symfony community in the world.

The conference will not only allow developers to enjoy the wide range of sessions and speakers, but they'll also have the opportunity to listen in as major website developers (like Yahoo! and Dailymotion) talk about using symfony in their development.

You can register now to reserve your spot. Prices start at 100 Euro for Students and go up to 200 Euro for a normal pass for the two day event. You can find out more information on the conference's main site.