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…
Everyone, I just want to pass on this invitation to everyone interested: Dutch Open Projects is organizing it’s first PHP Bootcamp for all genuine PHP devotees. Herewith you are kindly invited to register and join the PHP Bootcamp. The PHP Bootcamp will be held on Saturday, June 2nd 2007. Theme of this PHP Bootcamp is:…
There is a little trick that Peter told me yesterday to get a better support for the code hinting/tooltips and code completion in Zend Studio when using Symfony with Propel: In config/propel.ini, near the bottom of the file, you will find the setting: propel.builder.addComments This is set to false by default. What this basically means…
Ever since the International PHP Conference moved away from The Netherlands, it’s been quiet here for PHP-minded people. This year though, we’re having a full schedule here in The Netherlands. I love it! Finally we’re having lots of events on PHP. A short list. On April 14, we had pfCongrez, a gathering of quite a…
Due to expanding business Dutch Open Projects BV (DOP) has multiple positions for: Ambitious PHP Developer As a PHP Developer you are working in a variety of self-steering Project teams. You will take an active part in developing, building and implementing custom built applications for a variety of customers and a diversity of products and…
PHP seems to be maturing lately from a scripting language to (nearly) a real programming language. Part of this process is the slow but certain adaption of development methodologies such as Agile, more and more unit testing, more and more usage of frameworks as opposed to writing everything from scratch every time, and now also…
After months of development, yesterday we launched version 4.0 of Jongeren in Beeld, a webbased application for tracking data for youth workers, police, city officials etc. regarding “problem youth” (though really, it’s simply a data filing system that can be used for other things as well). Version 3, which was developed before I joined Dutch…