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  • A rant about best practices

    At PHPAmersfoort I did a lightning talk about programming best practices. Well, talk, it was a bit of a rant. In this blogpost I try to summarize what I ranted about.

  • Code Kata Day

    Code katas are a great way to practice your programming skills, but usually you do so in the language of your own choice. DomCode, the polyglot user group in Utrecht, organized an event to break that habit.

  • Silent is (almost) dead, long live my-lex

    Silent is (almost) dead, long live my-lex

    Silex has been announced as reaching EOL in 2018. What is Silex, and what does this announcement mean?

  • One year without -m

    One year without -m

    One year ago I blogged about stopping my usage of the -m operator when using Git. I’m now reviewing how this has changed my usage of Git.

  • Your unit test methods need docblocks too

    Your unit test methods need docblocks too

    I’ve always said unit test methods do not need docblocks, because the tests will test methods should be descriptive. I lied. Docblocks which describe your test scenario are awesome.

  • PHPNW: Thank you

    PHPNW: Thank you

    PHP NorthWest 2017 was the last PHPNW (for now). The conference was important, so it is time to say thank you.

  • Why I will pay more attention to game nights

    Why I will pay more attention to game nights

    I need to admit a mistake. I made a mistake in judgement when selecting which games to bring to the WeCamp Game Night.

  • Customizing Sculpin: Highlight image and Facebook

    Customizing Sculpin: Highlight image and Facebook

    I’ve customized my Sculpin a bit more to fit what I want with the blog.

  • Company and team culture

    I talk to a lot of companies and work at quite a few companies as contractor or consultant. Quite often I hear management complain about how hard it is to get good developers, and also that developers leave again after a while. Now, there are many reasons why it can be hard to find the…

  • A list of podcasts

    I had sitting in travel not being able to do anything. Listening to music can help, but can end up also being frustrating. While I was working at Schiphol last year I got pointed to podcasts. Since then I’ve been really getting into listening to podcasts on my daily commute and it’s been making the…