Nearly two months ago I wrote a piece about Continuous Learning on the Dutch Web Alliance blog. In that article, I presented a lot of different ways of learning. All these ways of learning are interesting, but if you can’t convince your developers to actually start learning, there is little use in having all these…
Last Friday I had a great, long meeting with Mike van Riel. There we many things to discuss, but one of the things we discussed was productivity, or rather the feeling of stress you can have even if you shouldn’t, and how to counter that. Mike’s done quite a bit of research on this topic…
It is December 1st, which is the traditional start of the advent period, the period leading up to Christmas. It has also in the past years sparked initiatives in the PHP, web development and Open Source communities. Some of those initiatives I want to mention here for everyone’s enjoyment and education. 24 Pull Requests To…
In June, I launched IWantTo.Support, a website dedicated to displaying people and projects that you can support. Not just by helping them, but also financially. For a long time I’ve been thinking about this. While helping a project or developer by coding, documenting or promoting, it sometimes is actually nice to help them by buying…
Just over a week ago I wanted to publish my previous blogpost, only to find out that the Gist plugin I was using for the code samples didn’t work anymore. Some research showed me that the something changed in the way the Gist API worked that warranted an upgrade of the plugin. So I thought…
A friend recently asked me if I could make a simple website for the new radiostation he was joining as a DJ. My usual job is big applications and web projects, so (while this may sound weird) a simple website is actually something I’m not that efficient in, but since finding Bolt I actually do…
As you may not have noticed already, I have been accepted to do the closing keynote at the fantastic PHP NorthWest 2015 conference. I am really happy to have been accepted, as this keynote is a personal message from me that I think is important to communicate. In my keynote “Developers Are Just Like Humans”…
I still owe you one day, so here it is. This blogpost came a bit late because as day 5 ended we still needed to get the island back into its regular state, get speakers back to the airport etc. Enough excuses… here’s day 5. The last day of WeCamp 2015 was an exciting day.…
In terms of working, day 4 was actually only half a day. But since the last day of WeCamp would also just be half a day, some work had to be done. The team focussed on finishing their MVP and ended up actually finishing this as well! A great accomplishment for a team that, 4…
Day 3 brought change. As I mentioned yesterday some of the personal goals that were set during the individual conversations with my team members affected the work we were doing. This meant, for instance, that Jasper took a more leading role within the team, and Kanban was being implemented for a better view on our…