Not too long ago I was the “external expert” on the graduation project of my then-colleague Erik Baars. His topic was “contributing to Open Source” and parts of this blogpost owe some credits to Erik for inspiring me to write about this topic. Just as a FYI: Erik Baars graduated on the topic, so you…
Several of the jobs I’ve had in the past years I’ve come into partially based on my activity in the Open Source world. I’m not saying it’s *only* because my open source contributions, but in both cases it definitely had an impact in the whole process. I can point out some clear examples of why…
My initial implementation of Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl has just been committed! Where before I only committed some small fixes to Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Socket, now I’ve actually committed a real contribution in the form of real, new, self-written code. Yay! 🙂
Today, I have done my first code commit to the Zend Framework. I recently joined Shahar in the development of the Zend_Http_Client component. The first commit is nothing spectacular, just a bugfix in the existing code. My first “real” commit, with code I’ve actually written myself, will follow shortly, when I finish Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, the Curl…