OK, let me be clear. I don’t think that namespaces will add a lot in terms of functionality, usefulness while programming itself. However, apart from being able to develop your applications using useful functions, you also need to be able to manage your code. And this is where namespaces come in. Using namespaces, one will…
I was not really nervous before the exam, but for some reason during the exam the nerves played up anyway. This wasn’t really triggered by the questions though, because even though they were sometimes quite tricky and required reading over them two or three times to ensure you’ve understood things correctly, mostly it was common…
When I first read the information on the sprint, I was a bit disappointed that it was happening on a weekday. I wanted to be part of the sprint, but it’s workday… but then I thought: what the heck, I’ll just e-mail my boss to see if I can simply spend my workday on this!…
As an example, let’s take a look at an if-statement that I encountered in FUD forum. Note that I have very little experience with FUD forum, and even less with their code: if ($obj->avatar_loc && $a & 8388608 && $b & 8192 && $o1 & 28 && !($c & 2)) Now, that first object attribute…
Since starting to work on a Mac, and be able to use iTunes, I finally found a good application to actually subscribe to podcasts, and since I’m deep into PHP, PHP Abstract sounded like a logical step to try. I really like it! 🙂 Funny enough though, of all the episodes, I’ve listened to so…
I guess I don’t really have to explain what JobQueue does, as the name basically says it all: Using this, you can queue jobs that need to be performed. I usually use cronjobs for this, but that is especially useful for jobs that you know will need to be done. If you want to dynamically…
In a terrible spur of symfony community productivity, I just also finished the dutch translation of the My First Project tutorial for symfony. For people looking to get introduced to symfony, this is probably the best starting point. After that, Askeet will get you more in-depth into the framework, but the one-hour tutorial is the…
Ever since I came in touch with the symfony framework I’ve been wildly enthousiastic about it. I’ve been preaching symfony since I got to know it. I’ve started translating the documentation to dutch, and really want to promote it in the Netherlands. To support that effort, I’ve just launched the first beta of Symfony-framework.nl, a…
Ivo Jansch from Ibuildings and I have had contact over the years, and I think he mentioned a few times over those years already that he was interested in getting me aboard at Ibuildings. Every time I said no, mainly because the travel time to Vlissingen or Sittard is way too long. My response to…
Last week, I automatically updated my PHP installation to the latest version dotdeb was offering me (which usually poses no problems). However, this time around I ended up with two problems: * Most of my models started throwing errors: Error populating ”x” object [wrapped: Unable to convert value at column ”x” to timestamp: 0000-00-00] (or 0000-00-00…