Tag: refactoring


  • 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.

  • Refactor your TechPortal

    The article has a close relation with my Power of Refactoring talk as it has been given a few times already, and as it will be given again in a few weeks time over at php|tek.

  • Both sessions went well. The myphpbusters talk got greeted with much more enthousiasm though than my refactoring talk, but I guess the nature of that presentation is much more open and informal, where the refactoring talk goes more into theory and concepts that developers may not yet be familiar with. I got the idea that…

  • PHPCon Italia coming up!

    As I will be flying in on wednesday, I’ll be missing the workshops. Quite a shame, as Sebastian’s workshop on Quality Assurance in PHP looks quite interesting. I guess I’ll have to catch that one elsewhere. Looking at the DPC schedule there’s still one slot open… oh Cal, look what is very interesting! 😉 On…

  • Over the past year I’ve done several presentations at user groups and conferences on the topic of refactoring. In this talk I shared some of my knowledge and experience with refactoring. Even though I am not the biggest refactoring expert, I believe that I know enough to share it with people interested in the topic.…

  • I’ve rewritten most of my presentation as a result of writing an article on refactoring (more on this later). I am quite happy with the results, but I’ll probably change it a bit more before PHPCon Italia and php|tek, at both of which I’ll also be delivering this talk. Response to my presentation was quite…

  • The trip will be a very quick trip. I will fly out tomorrow evening, land in Katowice (1.5 hours from Krakow, as I have understood) at 21:30. I will attempt to sleep in the hotel, and then get up early as I’m on second in the Dedicated Languages track (after Ibuildings CTO and overall cool…

  • The Power Of Refactoring (PHPNW) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: refactoringphpnw08)

  • My schedule for PHPNW08

    PHPNW08 will differ a bit from a lot of other conferences I’ve been to, in that it’s not a big commercial conference but a community-driven one. Though one could argue that the Dutch PHP Conference has a very community-feel to it, it is still only organized by one commercial organization, where PHPNW is a true…

  • The Power of Refactoring View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: refactoringsoftware) The presentation went well, though I talked a bit fast. I did get the message across. I had hardly any questions (but that may also be due to the early time and the OctoberFest party yesterday 😉 ). I will be changing…