Tag: symfony


  • Expanding on our training offering

    I don’t know if it matters that I’m the son of two teachers, but training is in my DNA, knowledge sharing is in my DNA. From the moment I started learning PHP based on a book and scripts I downloaded from the Internet, I’ve tried to help other people who ran into issues that I…

  • API Platform Con is coming

    Later this week it’s time for API Platform Con. Let’s see what I’m looking forward to.

  • A quick-follow up about the generated fields

    There is an important detail that you should not miss when working with MySQL generated columns based on a JSON column

  • Using generated fields in MySQL

    I’ve been working with the cool feature of MySQL where you can generate fields based on data in a JSON column. In this blogpost, I explain a bit about how this works.

  • Symfony and DDD (and SymfonyCon)

    How do you combine Symfony and DDD? I will be explaining just that in a new full-day workshop, and I’ll be doing that at SymfonyCon as well.

  • Upgrade or upgrade?

    Upgrade or upgrade?

    Situation: Your codebase is running on an extremely outdated version of the framework you use, which opens you up to security risks and makes implementing new features really hard. What can you do to improve this situation?

  • PHP and e-commerce

    PHP and e-commerce

    Last night was a new Symfony User Group Cologne meetup and the panel discussion they had on PHP and e-commerce was really interesting. I feel we have several very mature options for e-commerce in PHP these days.

  • SymfonyCon follow-up: Doctrine entities vs Domain entities

    At SymfonyCon, after my DDD talk I talked to someone who asked about how to work with domain entities vs Doctrine entities. Let’s give it some explanation.

  • SymfonyCon is coming up: 5 talks you shouldn’t miss

    It’s almost time for SymfonyCon! Here’s 5 talks I’m really looking forward to.

  • Finally, time for new conferences

    Finally we can do some conferences again. PHPDay in May was already a great experience, and in the upcoming months I have two more conferences scheduled as speaker: SyliusCon and SymfonyCon.