Last month we announced WeCamp, an event where developers can improve their skills not just by listening to people, but also by actually doing things. Response has been amazing: Many people love the idea, we’ve already sold quite a few tickets, and we’ve even got Magma giving a ticket as a price (At the time…
Earlier today I got pointed on Facebook to this article by Shamoon Siddiqui on Medium.com. I would very much recommend this article to both developers and managers. This is an excellent read. It also made me think about my role. First of all: I’ve been on both sides of the above story. I’ve been the…
Last night I made one of the most exciting announcements of my professional life. At the AmsterdamPHP meetup I announced the first conference-like event that we’re organizing with the Ingewikkeld-crew. One of those things that I’ve done quite a while now for different usergroups (organizing events) is now also part of my work, and that…
Recruiters. Many developers hate their guts, and (in most cases) rightfully so. They usually have no clue about technology or about how to communicate with developers. It is also pretty clear most of the times that they’re only out for quick wins. I’ve seen recruiters call a developer they’d placed in a company exactly 6…
Whether in a professional environment or in private, prototyping (or making a proof of concept) is a useful tool. It is something people underestimate though. Frequently I hear people thinking the time spent on a prototype or proof of concept is a waste of time. NO, IT ISN’T Just this morning, I was reading this…
A quick blogpost about building APIs with Symfony2 and FOSRestBundle, just so I won’t forget this and can always refer to this blogpost if I start wondering about this again… Some time ago I inherited an API project that was built on top of Symfony2 and the FOSRestBundle after the previous developer was unable to…
TL;DR: The people and the atmosphere Context First some context: In the past months, I’ve been lucky enough to have been at both the PHPNW conference in Manchester, the TrueNorthPHP conference in TorontoMississuaga, and PHPBenelux in Antwerp. I’ve been to those conferences before and hope to be at them again in the future. Right after…
Very recently, elePHPant herder Cal Evans released a new book: Signaling PHP. The book is about handling signals when writing PHP CLI scripts that are long-running scripts. One could think of a daemon-like script, a long-running importer script or similar applications. I considered reading it on my flight to TrueNorth, but since I was waiting…
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…
This blogpost has been on my TODO-list for a couple of YEARS now, so I thought it was time to finally write and publish it. It is actually not at PHP, but I hope all you PHP devs do stick with me and read the whole blogpost, as I think it is about a topic…