Yesterday was day 2 of WeCamp and it was an interesting day. While gathering requirements in day 1 we created two *spikes*, topics to research to find out if we could actually do what we assumed we could. So in the morning, two people started on the research, while two other team members started on setting…
As we just started day 2 of WeCamp I’m reflecting back on the first day of the event. As I am being a coach this year, things are very different from last year for me. I’m hoping to have enough time to publish some notes and obversations every day. Being a coach Getting a team…
One of the topics in The Art of Asking that I think more developers should be aware of is that you need to do what you need to do to do your thing. This sounds vague, but it is true. In the book, Amanda Palmer uses several examples of how this works for artists, but…
Sometimes it feels like we are in a constant courtroom: We, all of us, constantly judge other people. And I mean, constantly. The person you see on TV, the person that walks by you on the street, the person that comes to your door when you get a delivery. The judging can be based on…
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…
Yesterday was a really hard day at work. Lots of meetings, tough topics, lots of stress, lots of frustration. So when I went home, I didn’t take my usual route, but decided to exit the highway a bit earlier than usual and drive through the forest. Relax And Clear Your Mind Driving through nature, whether…
Earlier this week we had a discussion in the PHPNL Slack chat about finding jobs and using recruiters for this purpose. Some people had used recruiters to find their job and were stating that they might not have found their current job without the recruiter. I disagreed, and eventually promised to blog about it to…
Recently we’ve had some discussion on the PHPNL Slack community about code reviews. It’s an interesting topic that I’ve been meaning to blog about for quite a while already (and I’ve written about it for Wisdom of the elePHPant), so this was a good reason to sit down and actually put down my thoughts on…
Another quick fix documented here simple because it may help me (or someone else of course) in the future. Context For a project I’m working on right now I need to crop an image using ImageMagick. We’re using the commandline instead of Imagick because we need to execute a custom command with a lot of…
A quick technical note: I ran into the same issue as Rob Allen did. Using his solution I came to understand the problem, but contrary to Rob, I was using an Ubuntu system in a Vagrant-box. The solution is the same, the path is different. In your php.ini, you add/update the openssl.cafile parameter: openssl.cafile=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt Don’t…