As we set out to build the next great social ecommerce platform we were struck with a rare and great opportunity to start with a clean slate. We were able to select each piece of our architecture without any predefined requirements.  This let us review the state of the Frameworks in PHP and sel[...]

People that RSVPed for the last Symfony NYC Meetup know, that it got canceled. We are very sorry, but the meetup speaker got sick and couldn’t make it. He did promise to give his talk on ESI caching as soon as he feels better. Meanwhile, the meetup was moved to this coming Thursday, Octob[...]

As I have mentioned in one of the earlier posts, OpenSky hosts monthly Symfony PHP NYC meetups. This month is no exception and the meetup is going to take place tomorrow, Thursday, October 21th, 2010. The topic of tomorrow’s meetup is “Symfony2 and ESI. Bringing your dynamic cache t[...]

At OpenSky, we concentrate on programmers’ skills and ways to improve them a lot. As part of that, we have Fridays dedicated to skill improvement – we, programmers, are allowed to write blog posts, prepare presentations¸ educate others on what we learned, refactor/improve our code o[...]

Some of you might, others might not know that our company, OpenSky, became the official sponsor of Symfony NYC Meetups, which means, that we’ll be seeing you the last Thursday of every month, here, at OpenSky HQ in NYC for the foreseeable future. That was enough of the introduction, now t[...]

The core symfony 2 team has just released Symfony 2 Preview Release 3. Of the 50+ different contributors, OpenSky provided 5 of them. Our developers contributed meaningful code commits which the core team approved and integrated with the release. We are excited to be a part of this thriving com[...]