Tag: lessons


  • The lost art of training?

    With the risk of sounding old: When I was young, if you wanted to learn something, you basically had two options: Read a book and start self-teaching, or book a training session and learn through that. Since then, a lot has changed. And that’s a good thing. Video tutorials, podcasts, blogs, magazines, monthly usergroups, conferences,…

  • 7 Lessons You Can Learn From Disney Movies

    Disney movies contain lessons. They are life lessons, but they can also be applied to your work as a developer.

  • symfony 0.6 to Symfony 5: What I learned from the framework

    Today I did a talk at SymfonyWorld about the lessons I learned from the Symfony framework. This blog post is a text version of my talk

  • ZendCon 2016

    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…