First of all, next week is the pfCongrez , where amongst others I am looking forward to seeing Anne van Kesteren and Derick Rethans speak about their respective topics. But most importantly, this june Amsterdam will again for a short while be the center of the PHP universe with the Dutch PHP Conference. This year…
There is a plugin for symfony that enables phpUnit testing for symfony projects. However, this plugin used to be in limbo for quite a while. Besides, even though I see the power of phpUnit and have worked with it on several occassions, I personally prefer the more minimalistic approach of lime for unit testing. From…
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…
Purpose of the Center of Expertise will be, and I will quote the announcement, amongst others: This is a step not a lot of commercial organizations dare to make, and I am very proud to be working for one of the companies that has the balls to do it. Sure, there’s commercial stuff in there,…
Ibuildings is a very professional company, with an enormous amount of high quality developers with the right mindset. I can not think of another company in The Netherlands (and probably also the UK) that has such a wonderful team of people. Great, skilled developers, consultants, project managers. Our partnership with Zend supports the claim that…
Yesterday evenings I went for a diner with Ivo Jansch , Cal Evans , Michelangelo van Dam and Remi Woler . We went to this small restaurant in Amsterdam called ‘Moeders ‘, had a great dinner, lots of awesome geeky php discussions, and an allround great time. After diner we sat down at the hotel…
When I first read the information on the sprint, I was a bit disappointed that it was happening on a weekday. I wanted to be part of the sprint, but it’s workday… but then I thought: what the heck, I’ll just e-mail my boss to see if I can simply spend my workday on this!…
I only got back home at about 8PM, but that was because I had a car on my way back and was somehow able to avoid all traffic jams. I must’ve had some kind of lucky trip today. Let’s hope this continues for the coming two weeks or so that I will actually be working…