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Re: Registration Form > Symfony Security: Beautiful Authentication, Powerful Authorization | KnpUniversity

Aditya Kothadiya — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:42:19 -0000

Yes, I didn't not initialize $roles as an empty array. I had below -

/**
* @ORM\Column(type="json_array")
*/
private $roles;

I initialized it to an empty array and now the problem is solved! Thanks a ton for a prompt reply.

Re: Registration Form > Symfony Security: Beautiful Authentication, Powerful Authorization | KnpUniversity

Aditya Kothadiya — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:35:05 -0000

I'm getting "An exception occurred while executing 'INSERT INTO user (email, password, roles)" error after submitting the form as "Roles" value is Null. How do I set default role ROLE_USER?

Re: Facebook: This is how I want to use it

Aditya Kothadiya — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:37:08 -0000

Completely agree Manoj. As I said, I'm not saying let's make FB all about learning and education only, but we should definitely not make it entertainment only. Having a source for entertainment is good, but people don't realize how much time they spend on it once they're on it. So we just need to balance it a bit.

Re: Aditya Kothadiya, Leadership expert Simon Sinek discusses the...

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:54:10 -0000

You're welcome Satyajit! Yeah, he's a great guy with many inspirational talks.

Re: How I improved my productivity & happiness by being less active on Social Media

Aditya Kothadiya — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:18:35 -0000

Totally agree Satyajit. This is exactly I am going to write in my follow up post about what worked well & what didn't so well for my both personal and professional life. In short, it definitely helped my personal life, and it didn't hurt as such for my professional life, but it might be very beneficial as well in the long run if I be more social, considering that I'm building online businesses. Stay tuned - I'll have my detailed thoughts published in a day or two.

Re: How Apple live and breath design simplicity

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:23:40 -0000

Absolutely! On that note, check this video about what happens when Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging http://www.youtube.com/watc... :)

Re: Personal Email has become more of a Notification Medium and less of a Communication Medium

Aditya Kothadiya — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:48:30 -0000

Excellent point Guy! It's so true that we use email as a repository system. So many photos, files, and conversations we just store there for future references. And certainly, email was built to exchange these types of information, but never to store them. But modern services like Gmail made people to think that it's ok to not clean up your inbox and store them life long. Which in turn makes these email services sluggish and not efficient. There needs a clever way to offload the repository aspect of your email to some other service once you've read that email. I'll have a look at what Tagwolf does.

Re: Personal Email has become more of a Notification Medium and less of a Communication Medium

Aditya Kothadiya — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:08:25 -0000

Very true. Informal communication has moved away to other services, but official communication is still present in email. So may be we can say email is no more personal communication medium.

Re: Preview of my first upcoming iPhone app – “Just Remind It”

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:53:22 -0000

Yes, it does :)

Re: Founder Institute Expands To San Diego And Washington DC

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:03:07 -0000

The best part of institute was introductions with world-class mentors and your fellow peers. Mentors helped me a lot to think bigger systematically - step by step by asking lots of hard questions and criticizing my idea. Structured program helped a lot to take your tiny idea, and turn into a long-term business vision at the end of the program. Highly recommended for fellow first time entrepreneurs!

Re: YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works

Aditya Kothadiya — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:56:40 -0000

Thanks Dan for such a quick action! I really appreciate it. I'll try to give YourVersion one more signup chance.

Re: Movable and Actionable Signup Flow

Aditya Kothadiya — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:52:40 -0000

Thanks Jay for your reply! Wow! What a bad-timing for my post. I think you guys changed the design very recently. Because I took these snapshots 2 days ago, and wrote the post y'day.

Anyways, it would have been interesting to see the live example on your site, but I still talked about the concept about how it was working in my post.

Re: YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:42:03 -0000

Well, I don't like services using Facebook Connect to increase their sign-up and asking for your email address and other details right on the second page. One of the reasons I'm using FB Connect is because I don't want to give my email address. I can give it once I understand why they need my email. Without explaining the benefit of giving my email address, they are asking it right on the 2nd page.

For me, experience was fail. I quit the signup process on the second page.

Re: Dividing equity between founders

Aditya Kothadiya — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:04:06 -0000

Chris,

Thanks for another great article!

You touched following points -
1. Future contributions
2. Past contributions
3. Past success stories

I was wondering what are your thoughts on risk profiles of co-founders when they are not located at same place? Say one is located in Silicon Valley and other is located in low cost development country. Since the lifestyles are different, should we consider this location factor?As their might be difference of 5x cost at both places.

Or on the side note, is it not a good idea to have a co-founder a distant apart?

Your thoughts will be appreciated!

Thanks,
Aditya

Re: Verifying Twitter account credentials using Symfony validator in PHP

Aditya Kothadiya — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:50:43 -0000

Unfortunately I cannot provide all source files because there is additional code. This was not created for tutorial per say, but it was taken from my current live example. So to provide downloadeable files, I'll need to modify my files, and I'm limited with time bandwidth.

Re: Meet The Latest Twitter App Incubator: 140Labs (And The "I'm Big On Twitter" Project)

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:52:23 -0000

When they say it's an incubator, are they accepting applications from other developers or are they building only in-house apps?

It would be interesting to know more details.

Re: Verifying Twitter account credentials using Symfony validator in PHP

Aditya Kothadiya — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:24:08 -0000

Thanks Swapnil! Yeah, the purpose of APICall was to make it usable for all different Twitter API calls, or even other web service calls.

Re: Being Efficient Vs Being Effective

Aditya Kothadiya — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:32:55 -0000

Yes Mitali, you are absolutely correct. I've already said, that efficiency is must. First, we have to achieve that. Then once we achieve that, we can not stop there. Our next step is to achieve effectiveness. So effectiveness without efficiency is not possible. In my opinion, efficiency is the foundation of effectiveness.

Re: Tips for entrepreneurs from Michael Dell

Aditya Kothadiya — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:30:09 -0000

Yes Alex! The gut instinct is something we can not imitate from these leaders. We can learn from their other tactics, but gut instinct, we have to go with our own. So that decides our success or not.

Re: Tweeght Seeks the Meaning of Twitter

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:30:06 -0000

Thanks a lot for reviewing Tweeght.com. I really appreciate your inputs and future predictions! -Aditya

Re: Why I moved my blog?

Aditya Kothadiya — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:00:18 -0000

@Steve,
Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right about blog getting evolved with different content than the one you started with. That's precisely happened in my case, so finally decided to go with my own name.

I'm glad you liked my views.

Thanks,
Aditya

Re: Startup Hacker, it’s not the new Technology, it’s the Sales skills that you need to learn next

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:41:51 -0000

@julian Absolutely right. Enterprise sales is comparatively tough one. Especially if we are "young", and trying to sell, then the outlook of those customers is quite different. We need extra effort to make them believe in us and bring them at a common ground. There are some basic etiquettes that we also need to follow, as they are taken granted in Sales world, but can be new to us.

@ALx, I think the best way to learn Sales is when you have something to sell. It need not be your full blown Enterprise startup. I started with selling stuff from my Sisters' clothing and art business. I'm also reading some sales and marketing blogs. My mentor also gave me some sales coaching. So this helped me to get to basic level. Now, I'll learn it more once I practice it more into the battlefield.

Re: Startup Hacker, it’s not the new Technology, it’s the Sales skills that you need to learn next

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:21:58 -0000

@Promise, I absolutely agree with your point that the best case is when we start selling before we even have our venture. That's how Bill Gates sold their OS to IBM :-).

Re: Observation on How a Self-Bootstrapped Startup Vs a VC Funded Startup Spend Money

Aditya Kothadiya — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:07:47 -0000

@snehal,
I agree with you. That's why I said, there might be some truth in "keeping employee happy" part. But those profit making companies also want the best talent and want cooler product and more users.

Yes, sometimes $2000 or so look peanuts. I agree. But at the same time, think about that money when it's going from your pocket. Then we think twice before spending it.

The bottom line is, we just have to keep this thought in mind that VC money is not there to spend. We should treat it as our own money. At the end, if buying expensive laptops make sense, then sure, go buy it, but just make sure we think twice before it.

Re: Thoughts on Startup Ideas and Team

Aditya Kothadiya — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:18:14 -0000

I totally agree with your point. I had once taken a "Team First" approach to work on startup. And I exactly failed during that situation due to "commitment" of team-members and not because of the idea. And that's why I had to choose - no team, no problem, do it by yourself attitude for my next project.

But while going through this situation, I think if you have an option, you should try for "Team First" approach. If it doesn't work out, then you should go by other route.