Tag: php


  • Believe it or not, after over 20 years of PHP development I’ve now run into the first situation where I need more than a single Github account on the same machine. It was quite easy to solve. Sharing the solution here!

  • Comference 2021: A free online conference

    Comference 2021 is this week, and I’m really looking forward to it!

  • Here’s a quick trick for Git: A one-liner to sign your commits after the fact

  • We’re doing another thing. Three 1.5 hour sessions about different topics in which a panel will discuss the subject at hand and answer questions asked by attendees. The accompanying podcast will give you a nice reminder of the things that were discussed.

  • Dear recruiter

    An open letter to all tech recruiters out there on how to work with tech people.

  • Speaker support

    Speaker support

    Over all these years it has been very normal for conference speakers to not get paid for their effort, at least in the PHP community. But is that fair? With Comference, we’ve decided that we’ll reimburse speakers for their time.

  • Check your SQL

    Check your SQL

    Recently I had to debug the bad performance of an API. Some calls took over 10 seconds. I immediately thought it might be related to SQL, but what I found surprised me…

  • symfony 0.6 to Symfony 5: What I learned from the framework

    Today I did a talk at SymfonyWorld about the lessons I learned from the Symfony framework. This blog post is a text version of my talk

  • Lessons learned from organizing an online conference

    Last week we organized Comference, an online conference from the comfort of your own home. Or office. Or wherever. This post contains some lessons learned.

  • Playing with WSL2

    Playing with WSL2

    I’ve been playing with Docker on WSL2, the new Linux integration for Windows, and Microsoft seems to have implemented a game changer for web development.