Last week I started at a new customer and they’re fully committed to the Azure DevOps environment. They use their Git repositories, their project boards and also their pipelines. Since the project I’m working is currently their only PHP project, they did not yet have any experience with setting up pipelines for a PHP project.…
One of the most discussed subjects during code reviews or in projects is not a functional thing but more a style thing: How does the code look? What coding style do we adopt? And while it feels like mostly a cosmetic thing, the code style is actually quite important. It determines not just how you…
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,…
With only a few more days to go until Dutch PHP Conference 2025 it’s time to look forward to the conference. DPC is always a good conference (and has always been so), but I’m going to put focus on some talks that I’m really looking forward to. Sacred Syntax: Dev Tribes, Programming Languages, and Cultural…
OK, here’s a quick one that got me stuck for some time. I made a change to a file and, you won’t expect it: I made a little boo boo. I didn’t notice it, but our Rector did. It gave me the following error: Given this error, I started checking the file on line 82.…
Later this week it’s time for API Platform Con. Let’s see what I’m looking forward to.
I’ve been working with the cool feature of MySQL where you can generate fields based on data in a JSON column. In this blogpost, I explain a bit about how this works.
I ran into this confusing error today: Unsupported operand types string * int. I’m documenting my findings here for either future me, or for you.
How do you combine Symfony and DDD? I will be explaining just that in a new full-day workshop, and I’ll be doing that at SymfonyCon as well.
I have two upcoming conferences in the next couple of months. Will you join me in Luxembourg or France?