I recently received a bugreport from a client that was very hard to debug: There were only very specific moments where the bug was reproducable, and those moments were usually in the weekend. So I decided to change the date on my Vagrant-boxes for the API and website to last Sunday to try and reproduce…
Who’s this? Oh wait, it’s me. I’ve finally taken the time to fix my blog. This means my archive of old blogposts is back, although unfortunately the comments are not. I took some time yesterday at the most excellent PHPNW 2013 conference to finally get my new blogging software (Octopress) up and running, together with…
At the start of the day the group was split up into three smaller groups. Together with Felix De Vliegher the first group sat down to work on the Gearman extension. Together with Derick Rethans the second group started working on tests for the MongoDB extension, and the rest of the group joined Rafael Dohms…
Over the years there’s been a lot of tools to improve the performance of PHP. Sometimes, these were tools specifically aimed at PHP (such as APC or the Zend Optimizer), at other times we’ve been hooking into existing tools (such as Memcache). But in all these situations, the actual PHP code was left alone and…
Symfony Today and yesterday as well I have been in Paris. I have been attending a symfony training there. As I am already experienced in the framework, I was able to help a bit with helping the other attendees. It was a nice experience, and I hope in The Netherlands we can also do symfony…
This year the conference is bigger and better. More people will attend (which I guess will add to the less personal approach of the event, but what’s to be expected of an event this big?) but also there is an extra day. Aside from the regular conference day, there is now also a workshop day.…
Since I am working on quite some sites for myself, I was quite interested when I read the Steer CMS announcement on the symfony-users mailinglist. I took some time to evaluate it, specifically for symfony-framework.nl . And even though I decided against migrating to Steer CMS, I am still mighty impressed by the work the…
As I wrote before the adoption of PHP5, so long after it has been released is still quite low, I was surprised by David’s HOWTO on installing PHP6. I know, this one is aimed at those more tech-savvy people who want to fiddle around, but I truely feel that the PHP Group should focus first…
Through Aaron I found out about Yahoo! opening up their user authentication to third parties. The ease of having just a single log in for various sites worldwide is very userfriendly. I applaud the idea. However, not the implementation. As Aaron also notes, it can be confusing for users to be able to sign in…