You can say what you want about its competitors, but to me Zend Studio is still THE application for PHP development. Its code highlighting, code completion, wonderful PHPDoc integration, and the great debugging and profiling features when combined with Zend Platform, are simply the best. Today, we have arranged that all developers of Dutch Open…
Ever since first being introduced to the Agile methodologies while working at TomTom, I’ve been intrigued. We worked in an agile way at TomTom, and now that I’m Lead Developer at Dutch Open Projects, I’m starting the introduction of Agile development there. My experiences so far as a PHP developer is that a lot of…
It’s been a while since my last post, at least for my usual posting frequency. I’ve not been idling however, I’ve actually been quite busy. First of all, I did something stupid, and lost all the data on my laptop. It sucks, and I felt very bad about it at first. I’ve lost quite a…
They did it! Symfony framework has has released their stable version 1.0. A nice milestone, congrats to Francois and Fabien! I’ve been very impressed with the framework from the moment I first checked it out, somewhere in october or november last year, and I’ve been working on developing several applications in Symfony since then. If…
In the period of a few hours yesterday, three new PHP frameworks were announced on Planet PHP and PHPDeveloper. It was really something I noticed, that this happened in such a short timespan. I was clearly not the only one who noticed. Andrei and Clay also noticed and wrote about it in pretty clear words.…
One of the things I’ve been trying to accomplish while working for Dutch Open Projects is to get all our developers Zend Certified. Today, we put the first real step on the road to this goal for the first three developers by getting the nicely priced bundle for three of our developers: Two juniors and…
As I wrote before the adoption of PHP5, so long after it has been released is still quite low, I was surprised by David’s HOWTO on installing PHP6. I know, this one is aimed at those more tech-savvy people who want to fiddle around, but I truely feel that the PHP Group should focus first…
Yet another proof today of the poor adoption of PHP5 in the developer community: Results from a PHPMagazine poll give a whopping 78.5% votes for CakePHP as best PHP Framework, with the runner up being Symfony with 10.9% of the votes. A scary result, when you think that CakePHP is still a PHP4 framework, and…
PHP 10.0 posted about an idea for a php.ini configuration option that would toggle if PHP is running in “production mode”. This would then automatically set some settings, such as disabling display_errors, disallowing phpinfo(), remove or strip expose_php, and ensure not-bad values of memory_limit and max_execution_time. Yeah, nice idea, but I don’t think it will…