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First off, I apologize to those who have tried to post comments. I did not realize I had broken my commenting section when I recently uploaded a threaded comment plugin. As far as I can tell, it is fixed.

I’ve received a few emails and requests for more information about linking Symfony to Joomla (Original Post). The questions were pretty varied, but mostly centered around gaining some additional clarity and securing my approach using symmetric encryption.

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I’ve been having this migraine of a headache lately. Its the result of trying to get a symfony-based web service that requires authentication to hook up with a Joomla web site. I’ve tried using COil’s suggestions, but it still didn’t quite work.

UPDATE 6/10/08:  I think I’ve nailed a solution down.

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Now that I’m back from Seattle, I’ve had some time to digest everything that I’ve learned.

I need to take more time to unit test. I half ass it right now and it hurts me so much more later in the development life cycle. What it comes down to is that I need a way to make my testing easier and I think I’ve learned a new way to do that.

XUnit
The XUnit framework provides a standardized way to test your code. Each unit test can then be combined into a test suite that can be run during each build cycle. Its own added value ensures that new code conforms to existing tests.

I’ll be looking into ways to utilize XUnit in my C development (CUTEST or CUnit) as well as my switch56 PHP development efforts. I will also be looking into such frameworks as FUnit and FlexUnit to assist in some of our switch56 Flex development.

The company that pays the bills has sent me to Seattle for a training course evaluation. This is the first time I’ve ever traveled to Seattle. It is very beautiful. The mountains, the trees, the views are just awe inspiring. I’ll be here for two nights and I’ll take a bunch of photos and get them posted up here.  This first shot is of Mt Rainier from my seat on the plane into Seattle.

So that trip to San Diego was pretty awesome. We took the wife’s VW Bug cross the desert and through the mountains. I’ll just say it corners really well at above average speeds.

Life has taken on an incredible amount of insanity lately. I digress.

Switch56 is chugging along as we work to finish a project for PivotalPath.com. Our focal project, txtMovieClub.com launched a new social site and new look. I like it and I think Mark did a great job pulling it together.

My pursuit of a Master’s in Engineering continues. I’m already starting to tire of school and I’ve got another year to go. This semester’s Information Assurance course is… well… exhausting? No. Uninspiring. Yeah, I’ll leave it at that.

My folks have been visiting since early March. After some time spent at my Aunt’s home in central Phoenix, they are currently staying with Christine and myself. Since my mother cannot sit still we’ve been doing different home renovations on the weekends.

Work is work. I’m still doing some V.150.1 development and there’s talk of porting my work to other platforms. This is pretty neat and offers me some really good visibility up the ladder and across divisions.

So that’s it in a nut shell for now. I’ll pull some more symfony stuff together and post it up here in the future. ‘Til then, keep on keepin’ on.