My problem with the elements was the opposite of my earlier problem. I was trying to fetch elements that were not namespaced, or so I thought. I had overlooked the fact that there was a default namespace with no prefix in the document. It took me a while to find the fact that there was…
Back in the days when I worked at Dutch Open Projects, summer 2007, I entered a survey for an author who was writing a book for PHP developers looking for a job. I explained my view on recruiting and what I was looking for when interviewing candidates. Time went on and I actually forgot about…
It was my colleague Dynom who saved the day for me. He pointed me towards the second optional parameter of the attributes() method of the SimpleXMLElement object. Given the following snippet (within a larger snippet): I was using the first parameter of attributes (the namespace) to let SimpleXML know from which namespace I wanted to…
Ibuildings is a very professional company, with an enormous amount of high quality developers with the right mindset. I can not think of another company in The Netherlands (and probably also the UK) that has such a wonderful team of people. Great, skilled developers, consultants, project managers. Our partnership with Zend supports the claim that…
Some people who may not be able to access (all of) Javascript: I am sure there are more groups that can be thought of, but these four are probably the most common who have trouble with an interface using Javascript/AJAX. And you may not care about an individual group of the list above, but there’s…
Ignore details early onIn this essay, the main point made is to try and not pay attention to details early on in the project. Focus on the main functionality before diving into details. In symfony, this is easily achieved by using a basic CRUD interface first (removing the functionality you don’t need, or adding specific…
Aside from the fact that we’re organizing the PHP TestFest, I am especially proud that we’ve been able to get Sebastian Bergmann over. He will be talking about testing PHP, and will also be available while attendees are writing the tests, to assist in the test writing and answer questions. This event marks the re-launch…
Yesterday evenings I went for a diner with Ivo Jansch , Cal Evans , Michelangelo van Dam and Remi Woler . We went to this small restaurant in Amsterdam called ‘Moeders ‘, had a great dinner, lots of awesome geeky php discussions, and an allround great time. After diner we sat down at the hotel…
Last week I did a presentation for the Dutch Linux Usergroup on symfony. It was an introductory talk as the audience there would probably not be very php-oriented. The presentation there went very well, even though there were only 4 people attending the talk. The presentation went very smoothly, and the fact that there so…
In the World of Warcraft Battle Chest Guide, I found the following passage: The issue here is that intentionally testing your class makes the process more analytic; you can prepare new strategies, test them out, and really see the effects. It’s MUCH harder to keep a keen eye out when you are surprised To me,…