Tag: php


  • 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.

  • Cancelling WeCamp 2020

    Cancelling WeCamp 2020

    We’ve had to cancel WeCamp this year due to COVID-19, but we’re replacing it with something else

  • PHP and the DigitalOcean MySQL cluster

    One of the weak points in our Rancher 1 cluster has always been the database. Because databases and docker (due to the persistence issues) has always been an issue, we solved that by installing a MySQL server on the same droplet that our Rancher server was running on. While it worked fine, it was always…

  • So here’s one of those things that I need to document, or I’ll forget. One of those blogposts that I’ll find through a search engine in a year 😉 A project I’m working on is using Symfony with Encore, and while running Encore I kept getting some weird errors that javascript couldn’t find a file…

  • The Next Step

    It’s almost 9 years since we started Ingewikkeld, and things will be changing a bit this year. This is the first visible change…

  • Surface Book 2 for development

    For quite some time I’ve been considering moving away from the MacBook Pro. For quite some time I had no idea what my next machine was going to be, until I first saw the Surface Book 2. This is my review based on nearly 2 months of full-time use of the Surface Book 2 for…

  • Installing Bolt extensions on Docker

    I’m currently working on a website with the Bolt CMS. I am using an extension for that site, but since Bolt is using composer under the hood to install those and the extension is installed in vendor/, when I deploy this to production, I’m missing the extension. The solution was simple.