A microservice for developing, testing and sending templated transactional emails in your next app — Remove boilerplate SMTP code, take advantage of templates in any language, and fix email client issues with MJML. The Status Quo As a developer, having worked on many applications I think I’ve written a “forgotten your password” email a thousand times. …

Bundle to provide HTML fieldset within symfony forms — This article was originally published at http://adamquaile.com/fieldset-in-symfony-forms on 17th May 2014, but has since been migrated to Medium. Update: There seems to be an issue where the validation messages don’t appear directly on the relevant fields, but at the top of the form. Currently, the Symfony Form component has no support for the HTML <fieldset>. There are some solutions for this floating around on the internet^1.

A quick proof-of-concept extension to simplify running tasks between scenarios — This article was originally published at http://adamquaile.com/running-commands-between-features-and-scenarios-in-behat on 12th Oct 2014, but has since been migrated to Medium. When using Behat for any application with more than a small amount of complexity, I often find there’s tasks I do time and time again. Maybe, at the start of the test…

Practicing composition over inheritance with Doctrine repositories — This article was originally published at http://adamquaile.com/composition-over-inheritance-with-doctrine-repo on 16th May 2015, but has since been migrated to Medium. One of the first things many of us learn when getting to grips with OOP is inheritance. It allows us to reuse code and only modify the bits we need. This is…