Author: Stefan


  • Symfony and DDD (and SymfonyCon)

    How do you combine Symfony and DDD? I will be explaining just that in a new full-day workshop, and I’ll be doing that at SymfonyCon as well.

  • Upcoming conferences

    Upcoming conferences

    I have two upcoming conferences in the next couple of months. Will you join me in Luxembourg or France?

  • Upgrade or upgrade?

    Upgrade or upgrade?

    Situation: Your codebase is running on an extremely outdated version of the framework you use, which opens you up to security risks and makes implementing new features really hard. What can you do to improve this situation?

  • Fun in Mannheim!

    Fun in Mannheim!

    I’m looking forward to my trip to Mannheim later this month. I’ll be speaking at the local usergroup and at SyliusDays.

  • Dutch PHP Conference ’24

    It was time for another Dutch PHP Conference. This is a write-up of that awesome conference.

  • Regenerative software development

    Companies can learn from Extinction Rebellion. Not just about how we should treat our planet, but also how we should treat our people. How we should treat ourselves.

  • PHP and e-commerce

    PHP and e-commerce

    Last night was a new Symfony User Group Cologne meetup and the panel discussion they had on PHP and e-commerce was really interesting. I feel we have several very mature options for e-commerce in PHP these days.

  • I hate CAPTCHAs. But really, really HATE. So I did not want to implement a CAPTCHA myself to prevent spam on a contact form. Turns out Cloudflare has just the product I want, and implementing it was a breeze.

  • The value of an external developer

    External developers are expensive. At least, that seems to be a bias existing in the minds of a lot of managers. But are they? And what is the value you can get out of an external developer on your team. In this blogpost, I go into some of the important value you get out of…

  • Remembering Bob den Otter

    Remembering Bob den Otter

    Last week Bob den Otter unexpectedly passed away. I am extremely sad about this loss, and I want to remember him for the awesome stuff he did.