I had sitting in travel not being able to do anything. Listening to music can help, but can end up also being frustrating. While I was working at Schiphol last year I got pointed to podcasts. Since then I’ve been really getting into listening to podcasts on my daily commute and it’s been making the…
It’s just past 5AM as I start writing this. I’m sitting downstairs in the ZendCon hotel, with a view on an empty bar and brightly coloured gambling machines. Since I woke up at 3AM (don’t you love jetlag?) and today is the day I travel back home, I’ve been reflecting on the conference. I’ll be…
Nearly two months ago I wrote a piece about Continuous Learning on the Dutch Web Alliance blog. In that article, I presented a lot of different ways of learning. All these ways of learning are interesting, but if you can’t convince your developers to actually start learning, there is little use in having all these…
At the most excellent PHPNW conference, Kat convinced me to deliver the first unconference talk of the day. It took me a while to get the right topic. I ended up with a topic I felt everyone at the conference could use for the rest of the two days that they were there: How to…
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…