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…
In the past few days I’ve read quite a few weblog posts on language x vs language y and most of the posts were somewhat ranting or flaming against the language not of the author’s choice. Quite a few were triggered by the fact that Derek Sivers moved back to PHP from Ruby on Rails.…
Since a few weeks we’ve really truely implemented some agile methods in our biggest project (Jongeren in Beeld). Since others may benefit from knowing how we have approached this, I want to share our implementation of the agile approach of software development in a PHP project with the world. First of all, I actually wrote…
When we did the PHP Bootcamp in June of this year, it was an unexpected success. The PHP-wide one-day event on PHP Frameworks attracted about 35 visitors, and everybody was really happy about the event. The idea of SymfonyCamp had come up even before that, but after the success of the PHP Bootcamp we decided…
For a client, I had to present a bunch of select boxes where users could select a genre, then a sub-genre based on your genre of choice, then a second level of sub-genres based on the selected sub-genre. My first choice was to use the symfony AJAX options, and updating the sub-genre select box with…
Earlier this year we organized PHP Bootcamp, a one-day event in which we had discussions about several frameworks. It was a huge success. It was an afterthought after another idea though. The original idea is now being realized. SymfonyCamp is my little baby, and I’m gonna make sure this baby will be having a good…
It seems, finally, after 3 year and a bit of having PHP5 available, the mass of community developers is starting to see the light. There is a community effort under way to move big projects over to PHP5-only. This may finally be the finishing blow to that endless PHP4 fighting. PHP4 is bad, it’s outdated,…
Aside from the development I already do at Dutch Open Projects, and the fact that I am Lead Developer so have a role in helping, stimulating and to some extent steering the rest of the developers, a new activity is being added both to my work and to the Dutch Open Projects portfolio: “consultancy”. One…
The new version of Symfony has been released. It’s a bugfix release, unfortunately still with no fixes for the bugs I’ve reported. Those that saw my presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference may have noted that I was still running 1.0.1. I’ve now upgraded 😉