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 PHP4 is bad, it’s outdated,…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 😉
So yesterday was the Dutch PHP Conference in the RAI in Amsterdam. Aside from doing a presentation on Symfony there, I had a clean plan on which sessions to attend. I ended up though to change my plans slightly. Instead of the PDO presentation, I wanted to check out the new ATK by attending Ivo’s…
Tomorrow is the Dutch PHP Conference in the RAI in Amsterdam. This is my plan for which sessions to attend: * Welcome* Keynote: My first Mash-up (English)* Objects of Desire (English)* Zend Framework (English)* PHP Data Objects (English)* Symfony framework (duh! I’m presenting!)* Keynote: Test-driven Development (English) It’s gonna be a very cool conference, I’m sure of that. I’m very much looking…
I’m not even talking about the unit testing and functional testing setup that Symfony has built in, as I haven’t even had the time to use it (I know, bad bad bad, but sometimes you just can’t do it when the needs for speedy delivery are high). I’m simply talking about the clarity of structure.…
Last weekend was our PHP Bootcamp. It was a huge success! With about 30 people present, the whole room was filled with PHP enthousiasts. The three presentations by Thomas Weidner, Johan Janssens and Francois Zaninotto were awesome! All three deserve great respect for bringing these presentations. The panel discussion afterwards was a very cool thing…
One (but I’m sure far from the only) thing where business and technology clash is the topic of security. A lot of the projects that we do for clients are based on Joomla! (previously Mambo) technology. Aside from building the site or application, we also offer a SLA for managing the software and, for instance,…
It seems it is all I write about these days, but it’s one of the things that keeps me busy for a good time of my current days, aside of course from my regular work, but I just wanted to share this. We’ve now confirmed all three speakers for our PHP Bootcamp event! Earlier, I…