Tag: open source
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I’m looking forward to my trip to Mannheim later this month. I’ll be speaking at the local usergroup and at SyliusDays.
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Last year I already wrote about different initiatives in the period leading up to Christmas. In one of my talks this year, Level Up Your Team I’ve been discussing many ways of learning, and for this year I want to highlight one of the initiatives that I participated in last year, and again am trying…
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Tomorrow it is three months ago that I launched my Patreon page. As I mentioned in my blogpost about launching my Patreon page, it was mostly an experiment to see how that would work out. I’ve seen a bunch of artists use Patreon very successfully, but the world of PHP, open source and software development,…
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I have been blogging in the past months about asking, as I think it is quite important to realize asking is not wrong at all. When Joshua posted his slightly controversial post about elePHPants I felt it made a good point: We should be donating more to open source projects. It inspired me to create…
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The IngewikkeldWrapperBundle adds a fallback route: Any URL not caught by your Symfony2 code will be forwarded to your old symfony 1 project. This allows for gradual migration to Symfony2. For an explanation of the thought behind all this, please check this post on the Leaseweb Labs blog, where I’ve guest-posted about this way of…
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Drupal is, independant of how you measure it, the leading PHP-based CMS. Whether you look at the amount of websites using it or the size of it, Drupal rocks it all. One thing that has kept me, and I guess many others, so far from seriously working with Drupal is the lack of object orientation…
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So what is it? Basically, the phpOpenNOS library is nothing more than a layer between the API and your application. It is there so you don’t have to develop the code to make the requests to the server. At this point, it implements all documented functionality in methods of the OpenNOS class. What you get…
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phpBB. Software I’ll always have a love for. It’s not only awesome forum software (probably the de facto standard for discussion forums right now) but it’s also the first Open Source project that I truely contributed to. As a member of the Support Team and as the Support Team Leader I learned a lot about…
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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…